ITUN said on Tuesday that Netskope, a global SASE company for which it serves as exclusive distributor in South Korea, warned of AI data leakage risks through its 2026 Cloud and Threat Report and strengthened its security strategy based on its AI-integrated security product, Netskope One AI Security.

The report said that as adoption of generative AI spread, the number of AI users at companies tripled over the past year, while the amount of data leaked externally through AI apps increased sixfold. It also found that the increase in data leakage and policy violation incidents was twice as fast as user growth.

With more than 40 percent of leaked data classified as core corporate assets such as source code and intellectual property, the company stressed that a comprehensive review of existing security methods is urgently needed. Netskope presented response tasks including securing and controlling visibility into shadow AI outside user awareness, preventing data leaks during communication between AI agents, fine-grained content control within authorised AI services and pre-emptive vulnerability verification for on-premises AI models.

To support this, Netskope introduced an "AI ecosystem protection framework" implemented through Netskope One AI Security based on its single SASE platform, Netskope One.

The framework proposes an integrated security system that links Netskope One AI Gateway with Netskope One Agentic Broker to control security blind spots across the entire AI usage process.

Park Kyung-soon (박경순), country manager of Netskope Korea, said the increase in data leaks outpacing growth in AI use is due to the spread of shadow AI and shows the limits of traditional security approaches. He said Netskope provides a security platform optimised for AX environments through shadow AI visibility, access control based on identifying corporate and personal accounts, and data loss prevention functions to protect sensitive information.