About 70% of Indian organizations, according to a recent Thales poll, view the quickly changing AI environment as their top security issue with regard to GenAI. Concerns about trustworthiness (55%) and lack of integrity (66%) come next.
The findings are included in the Thales Data Threat Report for 2025, which emphasizes the increasing impact of Generative AI (GenAI) and artificial intelligence in general. For activities like training, inference, and content generation, these technologies depend on vast amounts of high-quality, frequently sensitive data.
The study is based on a global survey that S&P Global Market Intelligence 451 Research performed. The research included more than 3,100 IT and security experts from 20 countries in 15 different businesses.
“The fast-evolving GenAI landscape is pressuring enterprises to move quickly, sometimes at the cost of caution, even as they race to stay ahead of the adoption curve,” said Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence 451 Research.
“Many enterprises are deploying GenAI faster than they can fully understand their application architectures, compounded by the rapid spread of SaaS (Software as a Service) tools embedding GenAI capabilities, adding layers of complexity and risk,” Hanselman added.
Data breaches are always a threat, but they have been less common generally in recent years. In 2025, just 45% of multinational corporations reported having a breach, down from 56% in 2021. Additionally, from 23% in 2021 to 14% in 2025, fewer respondents reported a breach in the previous 12 months. Eleven percent of respondents in India explicitly reported having recently been the victim of a data breach.
Since 2021, malware has been the most prevalent danger on a worldwide basis. Phishing is currently the second most reported threat, surpassing ransomware. The majority of threat actors are still from outside sources, with hacktivists and nation-state actors being the two main concerns. Although still significant, human error has dropped from second position to third place this year.
Thales came to the conclusion that substantial changes are still required, even if the study shows considerable progress in data security measures. The business stated that in order to support the sophisticated capabilities of cutting-edge technologies like GenAI and to facilitate future technological advancement, operational data security must be further improved.
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