AI Becomes Cloud Infrastructure, Expanding Attack Surface

A new Wiz report reveals AI has shifted from experimental tool to default cloud infrastructure, with 81% of environments running managed AI services and 90% running self-hosted AI software. The report warns of an inherited attack surface organizations never explicitly chose, with 68% of self-hosting firms ingesting models through third-party software. Security risks are compounding as orchestration tools expand faster than security practices, with Model Context Protocol servers appearing in 80% of cloud environments. Wiz urges organizations to treat AI as first-class infrastructure, integrating governance across cloud security, application security and data functions rather than leaving it to a single innovation team.