Jun 22, 2026

Interview with Ankita Gupta, CEO of Akto

How to Navigate Shadow AI Risk in the enterprise

This week, we discuss AI governance in the enterprise, starting with the nuts and bolts of how to discover and understand shadow AI. Following that, we dive into what security and tech leaders should do next with this information: apply guardrails? Limit vendor options?

Ankita has a wealth of experience and anecdotes to share here, from years of working with customers and seeing all the unexpected things that happen with AI in today's workplace.

Segment Resources:

• Website: https://www.akto.io
• Book a Free Demo: https://www.akto.io/agentic-security-demo
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/akto-io
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@aktodotio

This segment is sponsored by Akto. Visit https://securityweekly.com/akto to secure your AI agents before attackers do.

Topic Segment: Verizon's Breach Impact Study

The same team that delivers the DBIR every year gave us a bonus, based on over 70,000 insurance claims!

Some of my favorite insights:

• Cost of breaches, broken out by SMB, mid-sized enterprise, and large
• The claim amount as a percentage of the company's revenue
• Losses broken down by loss TYPE

This data validates something I think everyone in cyber needs to understand: cyber events are rarely business-ending events. Every cybersecurity professional and vendor, frustrated by companies "not taking security seriously enough" now have data explaining why: breaches don't hurt as much as you thought they did. Maybe you think they should hurt more? Push for regulation/fines/etc.

With that said, the report also shows breach costs increasing significantly over the past 6 years and the quantity of incidents shooting up. Specifically, the median impact has almost doubled.

Security failures aren't getting any cheaper.

Weekly Enterprise News

Finally, in the enterprise security news,

1. A $100M seed round!
2. Accenture acquires 3 security vendors
3. Some thoughts on the government takedown of Fable and Mythos
4. One of the craziest security mistakes I’ve ever seen, in the software FIFA uses to manage World Cup streams!
5. A Critical Copilot vulnerability
6. 75,000 Fortinet Firewalls get compromised
7. Remediation is broken
8. Using guardrails to evade detection

All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-464