Frontier AI Threats Push Companies to Raise Security Spending

Rapid advances in frontier artificial intelligence are expanding the cyber threat landscape, giving attackers tools to scale intrusions, exploit vulnerabilities faster and craft more convincing attacks. An IBM survey suggests companies increasingly see these emerging capabilities as a core security risk, prompting investment beyond conventional defenses and toward AI agents designed to detect, analyze and respond to threats with greater autonomy.

IBM found that 85% of surveyed companies plan to increase cybersecurity spending as frontier AI raises both the volume and sophistication of threats. About 75% of organizations are reassessing how they deploy AI agents in their security operations, aiming to accelerate remediation and reduce losses from cyber incidents. The available report did not specify the survey’s publication date, sample size or the dollar value of planned budget increases.