The secure “yes” Security and risk leaders want to be able to say makers. While the research found that companies “yes” to their company’s appeals to innovate are rapidly adopting and developing their own with AI, but they want it to be a safe and secure AI applications, security leaders clearly have “yes.” They want to ensure that the right security concerns about the new and amplified risks that measures, protocols, and solutions are in place, using and developing AI applications entails. and they want to be sure that their valid concerns about data security, inaccurate outputs, harmful However, while AI risks are evolving, so are content, and more are addressed. security solutions and best practices for AI. This white paper includes several recommended To explore the topics of AI adoption, use, steps to more effectively address security development, and security in more detail, concerns about AI, many of which emerged from Microsoft Security conducted quantitative the survey findings. More details about those will and qualitative research that included over be provided later. But the first step is to examine 400 security and IT decision makers as well as the current AI landscape. a series of in-depth interviews with decision