It has indeed become difficult for organizations to protect IT infrastructure against various cyber threats, and within this context, a new report released by Netwrix stated how organizations use AI to counter cyber threats.
According to the annual 2025 Cybersecurity Trends Report by Netwrix, which included a survey with 2150 respondents from 121 countries, more than one-third of organizations adjusted their cybersecurity strategies due to threats powered by AI.
Meanwhile, one-third stated that it introduced a whole new attack surface within their organization as a result of the use of AI in the office, whereas they are battling compliance because auditors need proof of data security and privacy in AI-enabled systems. All of this had resulted in almost two out of three organizations beginning to deploy AI in their IT infrastructure and the remaining considering doing so.
Additional New Cyber Threats Using AI
The revelations that have surfaced from the Netwrix Chief Product Officer Jeff Warren said of the company so that organizations can get prepared for a hoard of new emerging threats along with AI.
According to Warren, the data indicates an increase in security incidents, which are identity-driven and infrastructure-focused.
“In fact, identity-driven attacks with increasingly clever methods to bypass MFA, abuse of machine-to-machine identities, such as service accounts and tokens, AI-enhanced deepfake voice and video phishing, and even the creation of synthetic identities at a large scale, will most definitely have a larger share in the future.”
Dirk Schrader, VP of security research at Netwrix, pointed to yet another often unnoticed fact: an AI trained on company data creates as such intellectual property and, thus makes it enticing to cybercriminals: “It is indeed necessary to safeguard the data all through the lifecycle of the AI, starting from ingestion to model training till monitoring API endpoints for any signs of a prompt injection, abuse, or leakage of the model,” stressed Schrader.
