{"id":10975,"date":"2026-08-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/?post_type=news&#038;p=10975"},"modified":"2026-08-03T09:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:25:48","slug":"cybersecure-ai-for-business-your-guide-to-secure-ai-adoption","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/news\/cybersecure-ai-for-business-your-guide-to-secure-ai-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecure AI for Business: Your Guide to Secure AI Adoption\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#eeeeee\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:260px\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized aligncenter is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/07\/kyri.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10976\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:200px;height:200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/07\/kyri.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/07\/kyri-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/07\/kyri-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h3 id=\"h-kyriakos-siamplettos\" class=\"wp-block-heading wp-block-heading\">Kyriakos Siamplettos<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-large-body wp-block-paragraph\">Pre-Sales Consultant, Infinigate UK&amp;I<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-knowledge-is-power-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading wp-block-heading\">Knowledge is power.&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is accelerating and so is the hype around it. For most organisations, AI is no longer optional; it is becoming a practical business capability and a competitive differentiator. But faster adoption also introduces new cyber risks that many organisations are not yet equipped to manage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s start with&nbsp;a few&nbsp;practical&nbsp;questions:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">Who is using AI in&nbsp;the&nbsp;organisation?&nbsp;Which tools or models are in use?&nbsp;What&nbsp;are they&nbsp;being used&nbsp;for? And&nbsp;what data is being shared&nbsp;with them?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">If those questions are difficult to answer, that is exactly the challenge. Visibility is the foundation of secure AI adoption. Without it, governance, risk management, and policy enforcement quickly become reactive rather than intentional.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">A few sobering statistics&nbsp;help to frame the issue we face:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>83% of businesses already use AI, but only 13% have strong visibility into how it is being used<\/strong> (Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyera.com\/research\/2025-state-of-ai-data-security-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The 2025 State of AI Data Security Report<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>77% of organisations have an AI strategy, but only 26% can enforce it<\/strong> (Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkpoint.com\/lp\/cloud-security-report-ai-era-2026-gsem?utm_campaign=dg_ps_26q1_emea_all_mesh-mix-integrated-campaign_weurope-lg_en-gsem&amp;utm_source=google-dg&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_term=cloud%20security%20trends&amp;utm_content=ag_cloud_hybrid&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23502976999&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADIBfpcWVMu9N4gJo3Emjrl4Pkykx&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjw0JnRBhDJARIsALobnXYN-xgCr6g1La3_uQXG7qKaL4CUSyKnLdHgLu_UtfdfgBU96ql84pAaAmDXEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Check Point: Securing the AI Implementation<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1 in 5 organisations experienced a breach linked to shadow AI last year<\/strong>&nbsp;(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/reports\/data-breach\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/reports\/data-breach\">IBM Cost of a data Breach, 2025<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">AI is scaling across users, applications, and autonomous agents&nbsp;faster than&nbsp;most&nbsp;security&nbsp;architectures&nbsp;can&nbsp;adapt. The result is a widening&nbsp;gap across data&nbsp;protection, identity controls, and hybrid environments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">Because AI is discussed using&nbsp;a&nbsp;wide range&nbsp;of&nbsp;overlapping&nbsp;terms, it&nbsp;helps&nbsp;to distinguish the main categories by function, access model,&nbsp;and&nbsp;business&nbsp;purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"731\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-15-114006.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10980\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.2354965115167733;width:1016px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-15-114006.png 731w, https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-15-114006-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-an-un-managed-nbsp-risk-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading wp-block-heading\">An un-managed&nbsp;risk.&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">So far,&nbsp;AI adoption has&nbsp;often&nbsp;been organic and&nbsp;unstructured,&nbsp;driven&nbsp;by&nbsp;employee experimentation and business demand rather than formal governance. That can accelerate&nbsp;innovation, but it also increases cyber risk&nbsp;with&nbsp;no clear boundaries, controls, or ownership.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">AI&nbsp;may already be&nbsp;part of&nbsp;day-to-day&nbsp;operations,&nbsp;but in many organisations&nbsp;its governance and security maturity&nbsp;have not kept pace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">That gap creates five interconnected risk areas.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">Here are&nbsp;the key cyber&nbsp;risks&nbsp;organisations face when AI&nbsp;use&nbsp;is&nbsp;not governed effectively:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Data&nbsp;leaks<\/strong>: confidential information submitted to public AI tools can be retained or extracted in ways the organisation no longer controls.&nbsp;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Resulting Exposure<\/strong>: your business competitive data is leaked out of the organisation&nbsp;with potential loss of competitive advantage&nbsp;and client trust.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Prevention<\/strong>:&nbsp;provide clear guidance to all employees on what data they can share with AI&nbsp;and have guardrail polices in place to prevent such&nbsp;actions.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Adversarial manipulation:<\/strong>&nbsp;attackers craft inputs that override an AI&#8217;s intended behaviour to leak information or trigger unauthorised actions, bypassing traditional perimeter defences.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Resulting Exposure:<\/strong>&nbsp;This can lead to data exposure, unauthorised activity, or decisions that bypass expected controls.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Prevention<\/strong>:&nbsp;opt for an internal AI platform,&nbsp;equipped with cybersecurity protection&nbsp;and set parameters to guard against unauthorised interception.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Shadow AI:&nbsp;<\/strong>the unsanctioned use of generative tools,&nbsp;without&nbsp;IT visibility,&nbsp;creating&nbsp;compliance gaps and hidden data-loss channels that governance frameworks cannot audit.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Resulting Exposure<\/strong>:&nbsp;data loss and&nbsp;inability to protect company assets due to&nbsp;lack of&nbsp;visibility,&nbsp;IT integration and governance.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mitigation:<\/strong>&nbsp;issue clear guidelines and instructions&nbsp;for all employees&nbsp;about AI usage within&nbsp;your organisation&nbsp;and categorise them in sanctioned and unsanctioned applications.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"4\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Agentic overreach<\/strong>: as&nbsp;AI&nbsp;agents&nbsp;are granted autonomy to act across business applications, they can initiate transactions or modify records with limited human oversight, amplifying both the speed and scale of potentially&nbsp;harmful activities.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Resulting Exposure<\/strong>:&nbsp;potentially damaging&nbsp;decisions&nbsp;are made in automatic mode, with no alignment&nbsp;with company strategy and targets.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mitigation<\/strong>: define clear parameter for your chosen AI, ensuring key decisions affecting competitive advantage are supervised by a human&nbsp;stakeholder.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"5\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The<strong>&nbsp;AI supply chain<\/strong>&nbsp;can&nbsp;introduce&nbsp;vulnerability&nbsp;through dependencies on external models and third-party integration that&nbsp;current&nbsp;vendor risk programmes rarely govern.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Resulting Exposure:<\/strong>&nbsp;disruption, security gaps, and loss of control over AI systems due to reliance on models and services the organisation does not own or fully manage.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mitigation:&nbsp;<\/strong>extend vendor risk programmes to cover AI-specific dependencies, document all external model and integration usage, and establish clear policies for evaluating and monitoring third-party AI services.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">Taken together, these risks make AI security more than a technical issue. It becomes a business governance issue with implications for resilience, compliance, and trust.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">AI governance should align with&nbsp;established&nbsp;compliance frameworks&nbsp;including&nbsp;NIS2, the EU AI Act, the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), and GDPR. These frameworks set&nbsp;expectations&nbsp;for risk management, data protection, transparency, and accountability&nbsp;in the deployment and operation of&nbsp;AI systems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">Many&nbsp;AI-related&nbsp;issues can be&nbsp;traced&nbsp;back to ad&nbsp;hoc deployment and&nbsp;weak&nbsp;ongoing governance.&nbsp;If adoption outpaces understanding, organisations lose the ability to shape AI use in a controlled and&nbsp;secure&nbsp;way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-top-tips-for-a-secure-ai-deployment-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading wp-block-heading\">Top Tips for a Secure AI deployment&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A practical checklist for building an AI adoption roadmap that is both effective and secure.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ask IT and security teams to create a clear inventory of AI use across the organisation, including approved tools, unsanctioned usage, and high-risk workflows.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Establish a clear code of conduct&nbsp;for AI use, especially&nbsp;around the&nbsp;handling of sensitive, regulated, or proprietary&nbsp;data.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Define which AI tools, models, and use cases are authorised\u2014and under what conditions they may be used.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apply human oversight to agentic AI and high-impact automated decisions, particularly where customer outcomes, financial transactions, or critical systems are involved.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Build&nbsp;technical guardrails for autonomous AI actions, with escalation paths, approval thresholds, logging, and accountability built in from the start.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-take-the-rudder-and-steer-your-own-course-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading wp-block-heading\">Take the rudder and steer your own course&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">AI will play an increasingly important role in how organisations operate\u2014from employee productivity tools and public chatbots to background automation and agentic workflows embedded in business systems. Used well, it can strengthen efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">To realise those benefits safely, organisations need clear controls over how AI is used, which data it can access, and where decisions should remain under human supervision.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">If your organisation is already deploying AI, now is the time to assess risk, close governance gaps, and make deliberate choices about how future AI capabilities are secured and&nbsp;managed before&nbsp;the next wave of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ai-act-service-desk.ec.europa.eu\/en\/ai-act\/timeline\/timeline-implementation-eu-ai-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EU AI Act obligations<\/a>&nbsp;takes effect in August 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-infinigate-uk-amp-i-nbsp-solution-offerings-nbsp-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading wp-block-heading\">Infinigate UK&amp;I &#8211;&nbsp;Solution Offerings&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Cato Networks&nbsp;\u2013 AI&nbsp;Security:<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\"><em>More Flexible covers AI you Use, AI you build and Agentic AI<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Akamai&nbsp;&#8211; AI Firewall:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">Better for Public Facing&nbsp;AI,&nbsp;covers&nbsp;all the angles as well&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-references\" class=\"wp-block-heading wp-block-heading\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyera.com\/research\/2025-state-of-ai-data-security-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The 2025 State of AI Data Security Report<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdstrike.com\/en-us\/blog\/indirect-prompt-injection-attacks-hidden-ai-risks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks: Hidden AI Risks<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsc.gov.uk\/blog-post\/chatgpt-and-large-language-models-whats-the-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ChatGPT and LLMs: what&#8217;s the risk<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isaca.org\/resources\/news-and-trends\/industry-news\/2025\/the-rise-of-shadow-ai-auditing-unauthorized-ai-tools-in-the-enterprise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Industry News 2025 The Rise of Shadow AI Auditing Unauthorized AI Tools in the Enterprise<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/OWASP\/www-project-top-10-for-large-language-model-applications\/wiki\/Educational-Resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Educational Resources \u00b7 OWASP\/www-project-top-10-for-large-language-model-applications Wiki \u00b7 GitHub<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2026\/02\/23\/ai-agent-security-risks-enterprise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enterprises are racing to secure agentic AI deployments &#8211; Help Net Security<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/reports\/data-breach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cost of a data breach 2025 | IBM<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ai-act-service-desk.ec.europa.eu\/en\/ai-act\/timeline\/timeline-implementation-eu-ai-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Timeline for the Implementation of the EU AI Act | AI Act Service Desk<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> For most organisations, AI is no longer optional; it is becoming a practical business capability and a competitive differentiator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":10977,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"technologies":[7],"news-type":[160],"class_list":["post-10975","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","technologies-cybersecurity","news-type-blog"],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Infinigate | United Kingdom","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11038,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10975\/revisions\/11038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"technologies","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/technologies?post=10975"},{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinigate.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=10975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}