Enterprises Struggle to Prepare for AI and Quantum Threats, PwC Says
On the global stage, too few organizations are implementing new technology to defend against new technology employed by attackers.
PwC’s 2027 Global Digital Trust Insights report surveys just short of 4,000 businesses and tech leaders in more than 70 countries. It seeks to understand how industry is responding to a rapidly evolving digital environment. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the nexus.
AI takes center stage in this report. An increase in the volume and speed of AI-assisted attacks goes without saying; but the report highlights that leaders identify attacks targeting their own AI systems as the top cyber threat they are least prepared to address. Compromise by autonomous botnets (53%), adversarial attacks (52%), and data poisoning (52%) are the primary concerns they are unprepared to defend.
It is worth remembering OpenAI’s statement in late 2025 that prompt engineering, like social engineering, is unlikely ever to be fully solved. Better known as...
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