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SANS 2025 AI Survey: Measuring AI’s Impact on Security Three Years Later

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SANS 2025 AI Survey: Measuring AI’s Impact on Security Three Years Later (PDF, 2.52MB)Published: 03 Sep, 2025
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AI is not on the horizon. It is here. It has been here. Generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLM) entered the cybersecurity zeitgeist nearly three years ago when ChatGPT became available to the public. Business leaders are clearly interested in using GenAI. They are scrambling to incorporate it in any way that makes sense—and many ways that might not make sense.

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