Gigamon Survey Finds AI Now Involved in 83 Percent of Security Breaches

Gigamon has released its 2026 Hybrid Cloud Security Survey, revealing that AI is now involved in 83 percent of reported security breaches globally, as attackers increasingly leverage automation and AI-driven techniques to accelerate cyber operations. The report, Reality Check: Exposing the AI Security Illusion, surveyed more than 1,000 Security and IT leaders across Australia, France, […]

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Gigamon Survey Finds AI Now Involved in 83 Percent of Security Breaches

Gigamon Survey Finds AI Now Involved in 83 Percent of Security Breaches

Gigamon has released its 2026 Hybrid Cloud Security Survey, revealing that AI is now involved in 83 percent of reported security breaches globally, as attackers increasingly leverage automation and AI-driven techniques to accelerate cyber operations.

The report, Reality Check: Exposing the AI Security Illusion, surveyed more than 1,000 Security and IT leaders across Australia, France, Germany, Singapore, the UK and the US.

According to the Australian findings, 53 percent of Australian organisations experienced a breach in the past year, while 91 percent of local security leaders are recalibrating hybrid cloud risk in response to AI-driven threats.

The study found that despite growing investment in security technologies, many organisations still lack visibility into how data moves across hybrid cloud environments, AI workloads, and encrypted traffic.

Globally, 93 percent of organisations reported investing in new security technologies to improve detection and visibility, yet 41 percent said it now takes longer to detect breaches.

The survey also found:

94 percent use AI systems to autonomously initiate security functions
72 percent believe data lakes are more secure for AI workloads
87 percent are concerned about “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks tied to future quantum computing capabilities
Nearly three-quarters report limited visibility into AI-driven data flows

Gigamon CEO Shane Buckley said organisations are facing a growing disconnect between security confidence and operational reality.

“AI is embedded in nearly every stage of the attack chain, enabling adversaries to outpace detection and response,” Buckley said.

The report argues that fragmented visibility across cloud, data centre, and AI environments is creating what Gigamon describes as an “AI security illusion,” where organisations assume environments are secure despite limited ability to validate risk in real time.

Gigamon said organisations are increasingly turning to deep observability and network-derived telemetry to improve visibility into all data in motion across hybrid cloud environments.