AI Security Risks in 2026
Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 16th, 2026
AI risk is no longer theoretical. It is operational, embedded, and scaling faster than most security programs can track.
Based on recent SaaS + AI research, AI-related attacks have increased nearly 490 percent year over year. At the same time, AI is being deployed across thousands of SaaS applications, often without clear ownership, visibility, or control, as outlined in our AI Governance Guide.
The result is not a single new threat category. It is an expansion of existing risk through identity, access, and integration layers that most teams were not designed to govern at this scale.