Survey: Rapid AI Adoption Causes Major Cyber Risk Visibility Gaps

As software supply chains become longer and more interconnected, enterprises have become well aware of the need to protect themselves against third-party vulnerabilities. However, the rampant adoption of artificial intelligence chatbots and AI agents means they’re struggling to do this.

On the contrary, the majority of organizations are exposing themselves to unknown risks by allowing employees to access AI services and software packages that include AI integrations, with little oversight.

This revelation is one of the main findings of Panorays’ latest CISO Survey for Third-Party Cyber Risk Management, which revealed that 60% of CISOs rate AI vendors as “uniquely risky,” primarily due to their opaque nature.

Yet despite knowing how dangerous they are, only 22% of CISOs have established proper processes for vetting AI tech vendors, leading to potentially dangerous situations where employees may unwittingly leak sensitive information via the prompts they enter.

According to Panorays, this creates risks ...