India Ranks 2nd Globally in Enterprise AI Usage, Faces Looming Security Risks

• India is second only to the US in enterprise AI/ML transactions, logging 82.3 billion transactions between June and December 2025.
• The Zscaler ThreatLabz 2026 AI Security Report highlights significant security challenges despite strong AI adoption momentum.
• Key concerns include the weaponisation of agentic AI and a critical gap between innovation and security measures.
• Indian enterprises often lack basic inventory of active AI models, exposing sensitive data.
• Critical vulnerabilities in enterprise AI systems were found to be exploited rapidly, with a median time to failure of 16 minutes.