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$670,000 -- additional breach cost from shadow ai for organizations with high shadow-AI usage (2025)
Organizations with high shadow-AI usage incur $670,000 more per data breach according to the IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025 report.
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https://www.arkeoai.com/ai-in-business/what-ai-readiness ↗
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What Is AI Readiness? A Guide for Operators | Arkeo AI
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Last updated: June 2026
If you are a CEO or COO at a $10M to $200M business and a vendor pitched you AI agents last quarter, the question your CFO is going to ask in the next board meeting is not whether AI is real. It is whether your operation is actually ready to run it. The wrong answer …
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organizations with high shadow-AI usage: $670,000 additional breach cost from shadow ai. Source: IBM (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/shadow-ai-breach-surcharge-2025
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