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AI Deployment and Security in the Enterprise

A 2025 survey of risk executives explores how enterprises are deploying AI at scale—and where governance, security, and oversight are becoming the defining constraints. Based on quantitative survey data and in-depth interviews, this report examines how organizations are managing AI risk as adoption moves from experimentation to production.

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As AI shifts from experimentation to enterprise infrastructure, governance is becoming the gating factor for scale.

AI adoption is now nearly universal across enterprises, embedded in daily workflows and early agentic use cases moving into production. But as deployments expand, risk executives are facing a new reality: scale depends less on access to models and more on the ability to govern them.

This report captures how organizations are managing employee AI use, implementing governance and observability tooling, approaching red teaming, and prioritizing near-term security investments. It highlights the widening gap between AI adoption and the controls required to manage it responsibly.

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Written by

Danny Hatfield Stifel Venture Banking

Danny Hatfield

Managing Director, San Francisco

Weston Rice Stifel Venture Banking

Weston Rice

Managing Director, San Francisco

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