Organisations see use in GenAI however cautious of safety threats: Report

, Generative AI has generated enormous curiosity amongst organisations. Whereas a few of them have already deployed GenAI options in some capabilities, others are weighing the choices.

A survey by Forrester Consulting, commissioned by publicity administration options firm Tenable, Inc, confirmed as many as 73 per cent of organisations within the nation are planning to faucet GenAI’s potential within the subsequent one yr.

Nonetheless, solely 8 per cent of them mentioned they have been assured in successfully implementing GenAI applied sciences. “They’re planning to deploy GenAI options for enhancing safety measures and align IT goals with their broader enterprise targets,” the survey mentioned.

The net survey included 826 IT and cybersecurity professionals in international locations like Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Japan, the UK and the US. As many as 52 respondents have been from India.

The analysis threw gentle on the rising adoption of generative AI inside Indian companies, marking a major pivot of their strategic focus. It reveals a way of hopeful anticipation amongst safety leaders relating to the capability of GenAI to boost safety measures.

Challenges

The survey recognized two main roadblocks that confronted Indian organisations – an absence of technological maturity (71 per cent) and uncertainty concerning the applicability of AI inside their operations (54 per cent).

“Regardless of the rise of AI, many Indian companies are nonetheless growing their expertise maturity and infrequently lack the sources or abilities wanted to correctly create, practice, and implement AI, in addition to preserve excessive requirements of information governance,” Nigel Ng, Senior Vice-President, Tenable Asia Pacific and Japan, mentioned.

Nonetheless, a number of organisations apprehend safety threats. Over 40 per cent of the respondents in India understand GenAI as a higher safety menace than a possibility.

“This sentiment displays widespread apprehension relating to cybersecurity dangers related to GenAI implementation. Inner misuse of GenAI emerges as a distinguished concern, with 67 per cent of respondents expressing fear about potential misuse inside their organisations,” the report mentioned.

“Over 60 per cent of respondents say that offering delicate information to open-source GenAI places them liable to mental property theft,” it mentioned.

Apparently, about one-third of them believed that AI may enhance preventive menace response and 42 per cent thought it may assist automate safety measures.