1、May 2024TITLE OF THE REPORT|23Letter from the Authors4Macro9Fundraising&Investment12Survey Results15ExitsAlmost exactly a year and a half after the public release of ChatGPT,the new frontier of Generative AI(GenAI)has captured public imagination.For business leaders,the increasing proliferation of G

2、enAI creates a distinct set of challenges and opportunities as companies begin exploring ways to augment or even replace existing workflows in the enterprise.While we have started to see GenAI affect everything from how companies develop software to how they engage with their customers,we are ultima

3、tely still only at the outset of what may end up being a platform shift.This shift could be as influential as the advent of mobile or cloud computing proved to be over the past two decades.How,though,does this emergence affect how Chief Information Security Officers(CISOs)protect their organizations

4、?How do security leaders think about this burgeoning platform shift amidst an ever-evolving threat landscape?To what extent is the ability to secure GenAI applications an impediment to their being more widely adopted?These are some of the questions that our clients and their customers continue to gr

5、apple with.Rather than focus solely on GenAI and its proliferation,we have opted instead to explore the intersection of GenAI and cybersecurity or,said another way,“CyberAI.”Nearly 70%of CISOs polled for this report identified GenAI adoption as at least a top-five priority to their organization.Mean

6、while,almost all of the 26%of polled CISOs who have not yet changed their cybersecurity stack in response to increased GenAI proliferation expect to within the next three years,implying ample opportunity for new startups to help fill that gap.These are just two tailwinds that we expect will drive mo