New AI Usage Report: Enterprise AI Risk Is Heavily Concentrated Among a Small Group of AI "Power users"

State of AI Usage Report 2026 full report here by LayerX Security reveals the extent of the enterprise AI visibility gap and why most organizations still don't understand where their AI exposure is actually coming from. The research shows that enterprise AI risk is not distributed evenly across...

From AI-Generated Content to Agentic Action: Security and Safety Threats in Generative AI

Generative AI systems are increasingly used not only to produce content but also to retrieve data, invoke tools, and execute actions. This work examines the security and safety implications of that shift across content-level, model-level, and agentic threats. We analyze how attacker access...

Your AI Agents Are Already Inside the Perimeter. Do You Know What They're Doing?

Analysts recently confirmed what identity security teams have quietly feared: AI agents are being deployed faster than enterprises can govern them. In their inaugural Market Guide for Guardian Agents, Gartner states that “enterprise adoption of AI agents is accelerating, outpacing maturity of...

The Hidden Security Risks of Shadow AI in Enterprises

As AI tools become more accessible, employees are adopting them without formal approval from IT and security teams. While these tools may boost productivity, automate tasks, or fill gaps in existing workflows, they also operate outside the visibility of security teams, bypassing controls and...

AI Agents: The Next Wave Identity Dark Matter - Powerful, Invisible, and Unmanaged

The Rise of MCPs in the Enterprise The Model Context Protocol MCP is quickly becoming a practical way to push LLMs from “chat” into real work. By providing structured access to applications, APIs, and data, MCP enables prompt-driven AI agents that can retrieve information, take action, and automa...

From Shadow APIs to Shadow AI: How the API Threat Model Is Expanding Faster Than Most Defenses

The shadow technology problem is getting worse. Over the past few years, organizations have scaled microservices, cloud-native apps, and partner integrations faster than corporate governance models could keep up, resulting in undocumented or shadow APIs. We’re now seeing this pattern all over aga...

The Hidden Risk of Orphan Accounts

The Problem: The Identities Left Behind As organizations grow and evolve, employees, contractors, services, and systems come and go - but their accounts often remain. These abandoned or “orphan” accounts sit dormant across applications, platforms, assets, and cloud consoles. The reason they persi...

A Survey of Agentic AI and Cybersecurity: Challenges, Opportunities and Use-Case Prototypes

Agentic AI marks an important transition from single-step generative models to systems capable of reasoning, planning, acting, and adapting over long-lasting tasks. By integrating memory, tool use, and iterative decision cycles, these systems enable continuous, autonomous workflows in real-world...

2026 API and AI Security Predictions: What Experts Expect in the Year Ahead

This is a predictions blog. We know, we know; everyone does them, and they can get a bit same-y. Chances are, you’re already bored with reading them. So, we’ve decided to do things a little bit differently this year. Instead of bombarding you with just our own predictions, we’ve decided to cast t...

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New Research: AI Is Already the #1 Data Exfiltration Channel in the Enterprise

For years, security leaders have treated artificial intelligence as an "emerging" technology, something to keep an eye on but not yet mission-critical. A new Enterprise AI and SaaS Data Security Report by AI & Browser Security company LayerX proves just how outdated that mindset has become. Far...

The Signalgate Case Is Waiving a Red Flag to All Organizational and Behavioral Cybersecurity Leaders, Practitioners, and Researchers: Are We Receiving the Signal Amidst the Noise?

The Signalgate incident of March 2025, wherein senior US national security officials inadvertently disclosed sensitive military operational details via the encrypted messaging platform Signal, highlights critical vulnerabilities in organizational security arising from human error, governance gaps...

Why Shadow APIs are More Dangerous than You Think

Shadow APIs are a growing risk for organizations of all sizes as they can mask malicious behavior and induce substantial data loss. For those that aren't familiar with the term, shadow APIs are a type of application programming interface API that isn't officially documented or supported. Contrary...