Survey Surfaces Greater CISO Appreciation For Scope Of AI Threat
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
A survey of 500 CISOs working for U.S. organizations with more than 500 employees finds 31% acknowledging they have already seen unauthorized data exfiltration between software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and AI tools and platforms.
Conducted by the market research firm Censuswide on behalf of Vorlon, a provider of a data security platform, the survey also finds 87% admit they are unable to see what data AI tools are exchanging with SaaS applications.
Nevertheless, well over three quarters (79%) claim to have a comprehensive ability to map data flows across SaaS and AI tools and platforms, with 77% also noting they have comprehensive behavioral monitoring at the data-layer in place.