Report by NetFoundry
2026 State of Secure AI Access
Key Findings
15% of CISOs and CTOs at enterprises are very confident their current security solutions adequately protect their AI deployments.
94% of enterprises report an increase in machine identities driven by AI/ML adoption and cloud expansion.
42% of enterprises lack a formal machine IAM strategy.
58% of enterprises have experienced security events due to lack of machine identity oversight.
85% of CISOs and CTOs at enterprises are actively evaluating or exploring new approaches to secure non-human identities.
78% of CISOs and CTOs at enterprises are under high or very high pressure to securely deploy AI capabilities.
93% of CISOs and CTOs at enterprises are concerned about new security risks introduced by AI deployments.
53% of CISOs and CTOs at enterprises are very concerned about new security risks introduced by AI deployments.
100% of CISOs and CTOs at enterprises say AI is expanding their organization's attack surface.
10% of CISOs are very confident their current security solutions can adequately protect their AI deployments.
8% of CISOs and CTOs at enterprises say their current identity systems are very sufficient for securing and monitoring AI-driven or non-human workloads.
18% of CTOs are very confident their current security solutions can adequately protect their AI deployments.