Shadow AI adds $670K to breach costs while 97% of enterprises skip basic access controls, IBM reports
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Shadow AI is the $670,000 problem most organizations don’t even know they have. IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, released today in partnership with the Ponemon Institute, reveals that breaches involving employees’ unauthorized use of AI tools cost organizations an average of $4.63 million. That’s nearly 16% more than the global average of $4.44 million. The research, based on 3,470 interviews across 600 breached organizations, reflects how quickly AI adoption is outpacing security oversight. While only 13% of organizations reported AI-related security incidents, 97% of those breached lacked proper AI access…
