Dell Survey Finds 84.7% Of Firms See Rising Security Risk
Respondents locate the likely start of AI-era damage at the PC and mobile device rather than the cloud, which puts endpoint, BIOS, and firmware spending on the table alongside the generative AI controls they say matter for the next two years.
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Dell Technologies surveyed 815 small, medium, and large companies between August and September on AI use and security. It found 95.7% use generative AI in some form, while 84.7% say security risks are rising and 78.5% reported a generative AI-related security incident in the past year. 93.4% say endpoint measures matter more, and 69.3% call sub-OS defenses, including BIOS and firmware, important.
Companies are not slow to adopt generative AI. Only a small share of the 815 surveyed have stayed out. The gap is on the other side: most report some form of AI-related security trouble in the past year, and the concern is not confined to cloud services or applications. Most respondents name PCs and mobile devices as the most feared starting point for damage, then say endpoint measures are increasingly important and that BIOS and firmware defense below the OS matters. Leakage of confidential information, unintended operations by AI agents, and compliance violations came up as specific worries. Effort to come is named as malware and ransomware countermeasures plus token management and usage control for AI agents.
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