Wiz Survey Finds AI Adoption Outpacing Cloud Security Readiness

Summary
A Wiz and Gatepoint Research survey reports widespread AI use among organizations, alongside gaps in AI security expertise, AI-specific protections, and visibility into deployed services.
Key points
- The survey says 87% of respondents’ teams use AI services, while 31% cite a lack of AI security expertise as their top challenge.
- Only 13% report using AI-specific security posture management; 53% use secure development processes and 41% rely on tenant isolation.
- The report says 45% of organizations use hybrid cloud and 33% use multi-cloud environments.
- A quarter of respondents do not know which AI services are running in their environments.
- The article describes the survey as covering 96 organizations, while the report title refers to 100 cloud architects, engineers, and security leaders.
Article Details
- Publisher
- Wiz and Gatepoint Research
- Scope
- Survey findings on organizational AI adoption, security readiness, and cloud environments.
- Sample Size
- The article says the survey covered 96 organizations; the report title refers to 100 cloud architects, engineers, and security leaders.
- Key Statistics
- 87% of respondents’ teams use AI services.
- 31% cite a lack of AI security expertise as their top challenge.
- 13% use AI-specific security posture management (AI-SPM).
- 45% of organizations use hybrid cloud, and 33% use multi-cloud environments.
- 25% of respondents do not know what AI services are running in their environment.