2025 State of Data Security Report

Quantifying AI's impact on data risk

AI is everywhere. Copilots help employees boost productivity and agents provide front-line customer support. LLMs enable businesses to extract deep insights from their data.  

Once unleashed, however, AI acts like a hungry Pac-Man, scanning and analyzing all the data it can grab. If AI surfaces critical data where it doesn’t belong, it’s game over. Data can’t be un-breached.  

To understand how AI impacts data security, Varonis examined the blast radius of 1,000 organizations — real data from real companies, not surveys.
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AI is a ticking time bomb for data.

Exposed data expands your blast radius — all the damage an attacker or insider can do once inside your environment. In our review, we uncovered alarming data security issues: 

90%

of organizations have exposed sensitive cloud data.

1 in 10

user or service accounts can freely export any and all data.

88%

of organizations have stale but enabled ghost users.

Our approach to the data and research method.

Varonis is committed to providing clear, unbiased insights that help mitigate data security risks.
  • Nearly 10 billion cloud resources (objects, files, reports, attachments, etc.)
  • More than 20 petabytes of data — approximately 20 terabytes per organization
  • 1,000 organizations 
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