August 2026 Cyber Threat Landscape: GenAI Data Exposure Emerges as a New Enterprise Risk
Check Point, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
Average GenAI prompts per user reached 106 in August, and 86 percent of organizations still saw high-risk activity.
Check Point's August threat landscape report finds average GenAI prompt usage reached 106 per user, up from 95 in July.
Although August recorded the lowest high-risk prompt rate in several months, 86 percent of organizations using GenAI regularly still encountered high-risk activity, indicating that improving averages do not eliminate exposure. Healthcare showed the highest exposure at roughly 4 percent of all prompts.
The data is useful for benchmarking internal GenAI monitoring, particularly the finding that high-risk prompts persist even as overall behavior improves.