{"id":209662,"date":"2026-05-06T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/businesses-eager-but-unprepared-for-ai-to-transform-their-security-strategies\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:15:07","slug":"businesses-eager-but-unprepared-for-ai-to-transform-their-security-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/businesses-eager-but-unprepared-for-ai-to-transform-their-security-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses eager but unprepared for AI to transform their security strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Businesses eager but unprepared for AI to transform their security strategies<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ai-security-zero-trust-identity-zoho\/819455\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-06 11:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.cybersecuritydive.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: <\/a><\/p>\n

Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n

Dive Brief:<\/p>\n

Businesses are confident that AI will improve their cybersecurity posture, even as they neglect more fundamental security tools like identity management and zero-trust networking, according to a \u201cState of Workforce Password Security\u201d report that the business software provider Zoho published on Tuesday.
\nAI confidence also doesn\u2019t match implementation readiness, the report found, with a massive gap between the share of companies expecting AI to help them with security and the share of companies ready to act on that potential.
\nThe report also contains data on the share of companies that experienced recent cyberattacks and the business world\u2019s security spending plans.<\/p>\n

Dive Insight:
\nThe gap between AI eagerness and AI readiness was one of the top findings Zoho highlighted in its report. While 90% of survey respondents said AI could strengthen their cyber defenses, only 8% said they were currently ready to deploy AI-powered security tools.
\n\u201cAn 82-point gap between belief and deployment readiness defines the most critical inflection point in workforce security,\u201d Zoho said.
\nAt the same time, many businesses don\u2019t have a handle on core cybersecurity practices. Roughly three-quarters of respondents said they lacked complete visibility into their identity ecosystem, meaning they don\u2019t know who has access to which systems. While 36% reported partial visibility, 38% reported limited visibility and 14% said they had no visibility at all.
\n\u201cThis \u2018identity visibility gap\u2019 is not a peripheral concern,\u201d Zoho warned. \u201cIt is the central vulnerability enabling unauthorised access, insider threats, and compliance failures.\u201d
\nOn the important metric of zero-trust networking \u2014 the design of systems to anticipate compromise and limit its impact \u2014 roughly two-thirds of businesses said they had no strategy for implementing it. Roughly half of those businesses said they planned to adopt a strategy within the next three years, which Zoho said created \u201ca critical window of vulnerability for credential-based attacks.\u201d
\nMore than half of businesses said zero-trust networking was difficult because of “unmanageable” growth in their identity ecosystems, while another one-third of respondents said they lacked the right processes and tools.
\nThe report, based on a survey of 3,300 cybersecurity professionals in nine regions and six industries worldwide, also found that one-third of businesses experienced a cyberattack in the past year, with an additional 7% \u201cnot certain whether they had been attacked.\u201d
\nOn the AI-for-security front, companies are most interested in the technology\u2019s ability to detect anomalous activity and threats (68% cited this as a desired feature), automatically enforce policies (61%) and analyze employee behavior (54%). But multiple factors are holding back their AI adoption, with outdated technology, concerns about the complexity of migration and budget constraints topping the list.<\/p>\n

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