Businesses expand AI’s cybersecurity uses as comfort with technology grows

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Companies in the experimentation stage were less likely than established users to deploy advanced AI-powered defenses, a KPMG survey found.

Published Sept. 25, 2026

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Dive Brief:

• Businesses are getting better at securing their AI systems as they spend more time using the technology, the advisory firm KPMG found in its latest quarterly AI survey.
• Accountability is also improving, according to KPMG’s Q3 report, with many organizations assigning responsibility for AI to a C-suite executive — including, in some cases, the CEO — or the executive committee.
• KPMG’s latest report also found that agentic AI use is growing.

Dive Insight:

One of the KPMG report’s key insights is that organizations’ AI maturity levels strongly influence how they use AI in the context of cybersecurity. Only 8% of organizations at...

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