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AI Adoption Surges While Governance Lags - Report Warns of Growing Shadow Identity Risk

The 2025 State of AI Data Security Report reveals a widening contradiction in enterprise security: AI adoption is nearly universal, yet oversight remains limited. Eighty-three percent of organizations already use AI in daily operations, but only 13 percent say they have strong visibility into how these systems handle sensitive data. Produced by Cybersecurity Insiders with research support from Cyera Research Labs, the study reflects responses from 921 cybersecurity and IT professionals across industries and organization sizes.

One Identity Safeguard Named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for PAM

Gartner has recognized One Identity as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (PAM). In a rapidly transforming market, innovation and demonstrated performance continue to shape expectations. The placement as a Visionary reflects what the company observes across its customer and partner ecosystem, highlighting a collective emphasis on simplified security, accelerated adoption and intelligence-driven identity protection.

Obscure MCP API in Comet Browser Breaches User Trust, Enabling Full Device Control via AI Browsers

SquareX released critical research exposing a hidden API in Comet that allows extensions in the AI Browser to execute local commands and gain full control over users' devices. The research reveals that Comet has implemented a MCP API (chrome.perplexity.mcp.addStdioServer) that allows its embedded extensions to execute arbitrary local commands on users' devices, capabilities that traditional browsers explicitly prohibit. Concerningly, there is limited official documentation on the MCP API.