{"id":275813,"date":"2025-11-06T20:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/275813\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:07:07","slug":"why-this-company-says-the-state-of-ai-security-is-grim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/275813\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this company says the state of AI security is \u2018grim\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In this edition\u2026Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have restructured their philanthropy to focus on AI and science\u2026Apple<\/a> is reportedly finalizing a deal to pay Google<\/a> about $1 billion per year to use a 1.2-trillion-parameter AI model to power a major overhaul of Siri\u2026OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarifies comment, says company isn\u2019t seeking government backstop.<\/p>\n

As the wife of a cybersecurity pro, I can\u2019t help but pay attention to how AI is changing the game <\/a>for those on the digital front lines\u2014making their work both tougher and smarter at the same time. I often joke with my husband that \u201cwe need him on that wall\u201d (a nod to Jack Nicholson\u2019s famous A Few Good Men monologue), so I\u2019m always tuned in to how AI is transforming both security defense and offense.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I was curious to jump on a Zoom<\/a> with AI security startup Cyera\u2019s co-founder and CEO Yotam Segev and Zohar Wittenberg, general manager of Cyera\u2019s AI security business. Cyera\u2019s business, not surprisingly, is booming in the AI era\u2013its ARR has surpassed $100 million in less than two years and the company\u2019s valuation is now over $6 billion\u2013thanks to surging demand from enterprises scrambling to adopt AI tools without exposing sensitive data or running afoul of new security risks. The company, which is on Fortune\u2019s latest Cyber 60 list of startups<\/a>, has a roster of clients that includes AT&T, PwC, and Amgen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think about it a bit like Levi\u2019s in the gold rush,\u201d said Segev. Just as every gold digger needed a good pair of jeans, every enterprise company needs to adopt AI securely, he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company also recently launched a new research lab to help companies get ahead of the fast-growing security risks created by AI. The team studies how data and AI systems actually interact inside large organizations\u2014tracking where sensitive information lives, who can access it, and how new AI tools might expose it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I must say I was surprised to hear Segev describe the current state of AI security as \u201cgrim,\u201d leaving CISOs\u2014chief information security officers\u2014caught between a rock and a hard place. One of the biggest problems, he and Wittenberg told me, is that employees are using public AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude either without company approval or in ways that violate policy\u2014like feeding sensitive or regulated data into external systems. CISOs, in turn, face a tough choice: block AI and slow innovation, or allow it and risk massive data exposure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey know they\u2019re not going to be able to say no,\u201d said Segev. \u201cThey have to allow the AI to come in, but the existing visibility controls and mitigations they have today are way behind what they need them to be.\u201d Regulated organizations in industries like healthcare, financial services or telecom are actually in a better position to slow things down, he explained: \u201cI was meeting with a CISO for a global telco this week. She told me, \u2018I\u2019m pushing back. I\u2019m holding them at bay. I\u2019m not ready.\u2019 But she has that privilege, because she\u2019s a regulated entity, and she has that place in the company. When you go one step down the list of companies to less regulated entities. They\u2019re just being trampled.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

For now, companies aren\u2019t in too much hot water, Wittenberg said, because most AI tools aren\u2019t yet fully autonomous. \u201cIt\u2019s just knowledge systems at this point\u2014you can still contain them,\u201d he explained. \u201cBut once we reach the point where agents take action on behalf of humans and start talking to each other, if you don\u2019t do anything, you\u2019re in big trouble.\u201d He added that within a couple of years, those kinds of AI agents will be deployed across enterprises.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully the world will move at a pace that we can build security for it in time,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to be make sure that we\u2019re ready, so we can help organizations protect it before it becomes a disaster.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yikes, right? To borrow from A Few Good Men again, I wonder if companies can really handle the truth: when it comes to AI security, they need all the help they can get on that wall.<\/p>\n

Also, a small self-promotional moment: Yesterday I published a new Fortune deep-dive profile<\/a> on OpenAI\u2019s Greg Brockman \u2014 the engineer-turned-power-broker behind its trillion-dollar AI infrastructure mission. It\u2019s a wild story, hope you\u2019ll check it out! It\u2019s one of my favorite stories I worked on this year. <\/p>\n

With that, here\u2019s more AI news.<\/p>\n

Sharon Goldman
sharon.goldman@fortune.com<\/a>
@sharongoldman<\/a><\/p>\n

FORTUNE ON AI<\/p>\n

Meet the power broker of the AI age: OpenAI\u2019s \u2018builder-in-chief\u2019 helping to turn Sam Altman\u2019s trillion-dollar data center dreams into reality<\/a>\u2013by Sharon Goldman\n<\/p>\n

Microsoft, freed from relying on OpenAI, joins the race for \u2018superintelligence\u2019\u2014and AI chief Mustafa Suleyman wants to ensure it serves humanity<\/a>\u2013by Sharon Goldman<\/p>\n

The under-the-radar factor that helped Democrats win in Virginia, New Jersey, and Georgia<\/a>\u2013by Sharon Goldman\n<\/p>\n

Exclusive: Voice AI startup Giga raises $61 million to take on customer service automation<\/a>\u2013by Beatrice Nolan\n<\/p>\n

OpenAI\u2019s new safety tools are designed to make AI models harder to jailbreak. Instead, they may give users a false sense of security<\/a>\u2013by Beatrice Nolan\n<\/p>\n

AI IN THE NEWS<\/p>\n

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have restructured their philanthropy to focus on AI and science.\u00a0The New York Times reported<\/a> today that Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan\u2019s philanthropy, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is going all-in on AI. Once known for its sweeping ambitions to fix education and social inequality, CZI announced a major restructuring to focus squarely on AI-driven scientific research through a new organization called the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network. The group even acquired the team behind AI startup Evolutionary Scale, naming its chief scientist Alex Rives as head of science. It’s a boomerang move for Rives: When I interviewed him about Evolutionary Scale last year<\/a>, he explained that he had led a research cohort known as Meta’s “AI protein team” that in August 2023 was disbanded as part of Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s \u201cyear of efficiency\u201d that led to over 20,000 layoffs at Meta. Undeterred, he immediately spun up a startup with a core group of his former Meta colleagues, called Evolutionary Scale, to continue their work building large language models that, instead of generating text, images, or video, generate recipes for entirely new proteins.\n<\/p>\n

Apple is reportedly finalizing a deal to pay Google about $1 billion per year to use a 1.2-trillion-parameter AI model to power a major overhaul of Siri. According to Bloomberg,<\/a> after testing models from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, Apple has chosen Google\u2019s technology to help rebuild Siri\u2019s underlying system. The partnership would give Apple access to Google\u2019s massive AI infrastructure, enabling more capable, conversational versions of Siri and new features expected to launch next spring. Both companies declined to comment publicly. While the hope is reportedly to use the technology as an interim solution until Apple\u2019s own models are powerful enough, my colleague Jeremy Kahn and I both wonder if this might ultimately signal that Apple has given up trying to compete in the AI model game with their own native technology for Siri.<\/p>\n

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarifies comment, says company isn\u2019t seeking government backstop. CNBC reported<\/a> that OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarified late Wednesday that the company is not seeking a government \u201cbackstop\u201d for its massive infrastructure buildout, walking back remarks she made earlier at the Wall Street Journal\u2019s Tech Live event. Friar said her comments about a potential federal guarantee \u201cmuddied the point,\u201d explaining that she meant the U.S. and private sector must both invest in AI as a national strategic asset. Her clarification comes as OpenAI faces scrutiny over how it will finance more than $1.4 trillion in data center and chip commitments<\/a> despite reporting roughly $13 billion in revenue this year. CEO Sam Altman has brushed off concerns, calling AI infrastructure the foundation of America\u2019s technological strength.\n<\/p>\n

AI CALENDAR<\/p>\n

Nov. 10-13: Web Summit, Lisbon.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Nov. 19:\u00a0Nvidia third quarter earnings\n<\/p>\n

Nov. 26-27:\u00a0World AI Congress, London.\n<\/p>\n

Dec. 2-7:\u00a0NeurIPS, San Diego<\/p>\n

Dec. 8-9:\u00a0Fortune Brainstorm\u00a0AI\u00a0San Francisco. Apply to attend\u00a0here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

EYE ON AI NUMBERS82%<\/p>\n

That’s how many CISOs face pressure from boards or executives to increase efficiency using AI-driven automation, according to a new survey of 100 chief information security officers from Nagomi Security called the 2025 CISO Pressure Index<\/a>.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Other key findings included:\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

59% of CISOs say they fear AI attacks\u00a0more than any other over the next 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n

47% expect agentic AI to be their top concern\u00a0within the next two to three years.<\/p>\n

80% of CISOs say they are under high or extreme pressure right now,\u00a0and 87% report that pressure has climbed over the past year.\n<\/p>\n

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Fortune Brainstorm AI returns to San Francisco Dec. 8\u20139 to convene the smartest people we know\u2014technologists, entrepreneurs, Fortune Global 500 executives, investors, policymakers, and the brilliant minds in between\u2014to explore and interrogate the most pressing questions about AI at another pivotal moment. Register here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In this edition\u2026Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,36133,25070,1283,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-275813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eye-on-ai","12":"tag-hedge-funds","13":"tag-openai","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}