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How Rapid AI Adoption Is Creating an Exposure Gap

As organizations rush to deploy AI, enterprise defenses are struggling to keep up. This blog explores the emerging AI exposure gap — the widening divide between innovation and protection — and what security leaders can do to close it.

Key takeaways:

  1. The AI exposure gap is widening as most organizations adopt AI faster than they can secure it, creating a gap between innovation and security.
     
  2. Many organizations are aligning with frameworks like the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF and adopting best practices, but few are translating those efforts into real protection — with only a small share encrypting AI data, testing AI systems, or enforcing identity controls.
     
  3. Tenable’s latest Insight Brief, AI Adoption Outpaces Security: The AI Exposure Gap, explains how proactive defense and continuous visibility can help organizations secure AI pipelines and reduce exposure.

AI isn’t just reshaping how organizations innovate, it is rewriting the rules of risk.

As businesses rush to adopt AI tools and integrate them into operations, the pace of innovation has outstripped the pace of protection. The result? A growing AI exposure gap that’s leaving critical systems and data vulnerable.

AI’s rapid integration into everyday business tools like productivity apps, browsers, and cloud services creates invisible pathways for attack. As AI becomes embedded into enterprise ecosystems, these same connection points between systems, models, and data expand the attack surface, exposing new risks beyond the models themselves.

This blog takes a closer look at findings from Tenable’s new Insight Brief, AI Adoption Outpaces Security: The AI Exposure Gap, which builds on The State of Cloud and AI Security 2025 report, developed in collaboration with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). While the report mapped the broad landscape of cloud and AI security, this brief dives deeper into one urgent theme: the widening divide between AI innovation and enterprise readiness — and what security leaders can do about it.

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