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AI-powered cybercrime poses a growing risk to businesses.
Most of these organizations feel unprotected against the threat.
EY highlights some key steps for building up cyber defenses.
AI-driven cyberattacks are almost universally considered a grave threat to businesses today. Yet for both financial and logistical reasons, most organizations feel inadequately protected and lack a clear roadmap to shore up their internal defenses.
That gap between awareness and readiness is the big takeaway from a report published Thursday by consulting firm EY. Based on a December survey of more than 500 senior cybersecurity officials across industries, the report found that 96% of respondents believe that "AI-enabled cybersecurity attacks are a significant threat to their organization," while fewer than half that number (46%) say they feel "strongly confident" that their organizations have adequate cybersecurity mechanisms in place to keep the threat at bay.
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The majority of respondents (67%), furthermore, said they're still "in pilot mode" when it comes to ironing out their strategy for keeping their organizations protected from this new wave of cyberattacks.
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