Pentera-AI-Security-Exposure-Benchmark-2026.md

**AI-Security-Exposure-Benchmark 2026 — Executive summary:** Pentera's survey-based report summarizes how 300 U.S. enterprise security leaders view AI adoption, revealing universal AI use but limited visibility, nascent AI-specific security budgets and tooling, major skills and visibility gaps, and strong emphasis on increased pentesting and security spend to validate defenses against AI-amplified attack paths.