Organisations prioritise the security of AI alongside its rapid implementation.
Security teams are detecting threats in under five seconds and initiating response actions within three and a half minutes on average – outpacing the ten minute cloud attack window that has historically given adversaries the upper hand.
According to Sysdig’s 2024 Global Threat Year-in-Review, AI adoption is on the rise, with the percentage of generative AI packages in use more than doubling in the past year.
“Fortunately, organisations appear to be prioritising the security of AI alongside this rapid implementation,” a company blog said. “We found that the percentage of workloads containing AI publicly exposed to the internet fell by 38 percent in just eight months. We also found a negligible number of critical and high vulnerabilities at runtime on those workloads.”
The research found that the number of in-use vulnerabilities have declined to fewer than six percent, reflecting a 64 percent improvement in vulnerability management over the past two years.
Crystal Morin, Sysdig cybersecurity strategist, said: “Organisations have made tremendous progress, and the fact that mature security teams can now respond to threats within minutes is a game-changer.
“With machine identities multiplying and cloud environments evolving in real time, automation and rapid response have never been more mission-critical. The data in this report makes me optimistic about the future of cyber defense.”
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
