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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AI is a Ticking Time Bomb for Your Data, Reveals New Report From Varonis
The State of Data Security Report shares findings from 1,000 real-world IT environments to uncover the dark side of the AI boom Varonis' State of Data Security Report: Exposing Data at Risk in the Age of AI MIAMI, May 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new report from Varonis reveals 99% of organizations have sensitive data exposed to AI. The State of Data Security Report: Quantifying AI's Impact on Data Risk examines how much sensitive information is exposed and vulnerable to AI tools due to misconfigurations, overly permissive access, and other data security gaps. 'The productivity gains of AI are real — and so is the data security risk,' said Varonis CEO, President, and Co-Founder Yaki Faitelson. 'CIOs and CISOs face enormous pressure to adopt AI at warp speed, which is driving the adoption of data security platforms. AI runs on data, and taking a data-centric approach to security is critical to avoid an AI-related data breach.' Varonis analyzed data risk assessments from 1,000 organizations — providing empirical evidence of risk, not conclusions based on AI readiness surveys and polls. The dataset included nearly 10 billion cloud resources — over 20 petabytes of data — within popular IaaS and SaaS applications and services, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Box, Salesforce, Microsoft 365, Okta, Databricks, Slack, Snowflake, Zoom, and many others. In the organizations examined, Varonis found: 99% have sensitive data unnecessarily exposed to AI tools. 90% of sensitive cloud data, including AI training data, is open and accessible to AI tools. 98% have unverified apps, including shadow AI, within their environments. 1 in 7 do not enforce MFA across SaaS and multi-cloud environments. 88% have ghost users lurking in their environments. Get the State of Data Security Report: Exposing Data at Risk in the Age of AI. Additional Resources: See Varonis in action: schedule a 30-minute demo. Check out these Varonis integrations. For more information on Varonis' solution portfolio, please visit Visit our blog and join the conversation on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube. About VaronisVaronis (Nasdaq: VRNS) is the leader in data security, fighting a different battle than conventional cybersecurity companies. Our cloud-native Data Security Platform continuously discovers and classifies critical data, removes exposures, and detects advanced threats with AI-powered automation. Thousands of organizations worldwide trust Varonis to defend their data wherever it lives — across SaaS, IaaS, and hybrid cloud environments. Customers use Varonis to automate a wide range of security outcomes, including data security posture management (DSPM), data classification, data access governance (DAG), data detection and response (DDR), data loss prevention (DLP), AI security, and insider risk management. Varonis protects data first, not last. Learn more at Investor Relations Contact:Tim PerzVaronis Systems, Inc.646-640-2112investors@ News Media Contact:Rachel HuntVaronis Systems, Inc.877-292-8767 (ext. 1598)pr@ A photo accompanying this announcement is available at in to access your portfolio
Techday NZ
29-04-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Varonis unveils AI Shield to defend sensitive data in real time
Varonis has introduced AI Shield, a product designed to provide persistent AI risk defence for data security by monitoring and remediating data exposure in real time. AI Shield operates by continuously analysing an organisation's AI security environment, observing interactions between AI systems and data, and dynamically regulating data permissions to prevent the exposure of sensitive information resulting from inadequate data security practices. The solution leverages Varonis' patented permissions analysis algorithms, which take into account factors such as data sensitivity, data staleness, user profiles, and more, to determine contextually which data should be restricted from AI access. This approach is intended to protect organisations even when they have not properly configured access controls. David Bass, Executive Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at Varonis, highlighted the complexity introduced by the prevalence of AI in data security. He said, "AI makes the data security challenge much more urgent and complex. AI Shield gives our customers the confidence to deploy AI with both preventative and detective controls that require zero setup and maintenance. It's always on, always learning, and always working for you behind the scenes to prevent breaches and compliance violations." AI Shield provides several features aimed at ensuring secure AI usage, including real-time risk analysis to pinpoint the sensitive data exposed to AI, automated risk remediation that continually addresses data exposure at scale, and behaviour-based threat detection to identify abnormal or malicious actions. The system also offers round-the-clock alert response to investigate, contain, and stop data threats. According to the company, organisations with poor data security posture face the risk of employees or AI systems potentially accessing large volumes of data that were not intended for their access. Varonis states that its AI Shield is designed to address this issue by offering constant monitoring and intervention capabilities. The company emphasises that protecting data access by AI tools is now a central component of broader data security measures. The product aims to help employees safely interact with AI tools, ensuring that only authorised users and AI agents have access, while all activity is monitored and any suspicious behaviour is detected and flagged. Varonis positions AI security as inseparable from data security, asserting that solutions like AI Shield are required to address the increasing complexity of protecting sensitive data in environments where AI-driven processes are regularly utilised. Follow us on: Share on:
