Zscaler ThreatLabz 2025 AI Security Report
Safely embrace the power of AI: Insights into the latest trends, risks, and security strategies
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Enterprise AI adoption has skyrocketed over the past year, with a staggering 536.5 billion transactions from AI/ML applications observed in the Zscaler cloud—a nearly 40x surge year-over-year.
The ThreatLabz 2025 AI Security Report reveals the latest AI/ML adoption trends across global enterprises, based on data from the world’s largest inline security cloud.
This report explores how organizations are integrating and managing AI usage, examining factors such as applications driving the most transactions, common data loss policy violations, and key blocking trends—shedding light on the delicate balance between AI-driven innovation and security.
Our findings and insights include:
- Enterprise AI/ML adoption trends: Top app categories, industries, and countries driving AI activity
- Emerging AI developments: A look at open source AI model DeepSeek, agentic AI, and the evolving regulatory landscape
- AI predictions: Key projections and priorities for 2025–2026 that enterprises should consider
- Best practices: Steps and solutions to securely enable GenAI while mitigating AI risk with AI-powered zero trust
Key AI stats from Zscaler
60%
of all AI/ML transactions were blocked by organizations
Top 3
blocked applications: ChatGPT, Grammarly, Microsoft Copilot
3624 TB