Tenable Warns AI Adoption Is Outpacing Governance As Cloud Exposure Risks Surge
A new report from Tenable is warning that organizations are creating what it describes as a growing “AI exposure gap,” as enterprises race to deploy AI tools and cloud-native services faster than security and governance teams can keep up.
The “Cloud and AI Security Risk Report 2026” examined telemetry data gathered from public cloud and enterprise ecosystems from April to October 2025, while the AI-related data was taken until December 2025. The findings revealed that many organizations were unknowingly increasing their attack surface via overprivileged AI identities, vulnerable third-party libraries, and cloud credentials.
In addition to those findings, 18% of enterprises had identities with excessive privileges that the AWS artificial intelligence services could take over at once. As per the report, such identities hold highly administrative rights but are never subject to audits according to the least privilege policy.
The dormant privilege gap
“The most dangerous gap is the “Dormant...
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