Forcepoint reports that Shadow AI incidents more than doubled in a single year according to IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report.
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Shadow AI incidents more than doubled in a single year, according to IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report. Workers using unsanctioned AI tools are now involved in nea…
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Forcepoint
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- Software Development
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- Austin, US
- Company size
- 1,001–5,000 employees
About Forcepoint
Forcepoint is the global AI data security leader. The company’s AI Data Security platform knows sensitive data as it is created, adapts the moment risk changes and protects continuously across cloud, web, networks, email, endpoints and AI through a unified, single-policy framework. Based in Austin, Texas, Forcepoint creates safe, trusted environments for customers and their employees in more than 150 countries.
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Forcepoint published the IBM 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report, which states that organizations using AI and automation save an average of $1.93M per breach and contain incidents 65 days faster than those that don't.
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Forcepoint featured AWS, former CSO of TikTok and AI futurist on the ways top companies are approaching agentic AI security.
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Forcepoint hosted a plenary keynote titled Hacked! 72 hours of a CISO's nightmare by Florian Jörgens, CISO of Vorwerk at an IT & Cybersecurity one-to-one meeting in Amsterdam.
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