How Enterprise GenAI Can Amplify Ransomware Risk — and How to Contain It

Generative AI agents with over‑provisioned permissions or compromised identities can be abused by ransomware operators to map data stores, exfiltrate data, and encrypt files across many systems in minutes; the report demonstrates a sub‑15 minute compromise-to-encryption scenario and advises applying least-privilege identities, identity governance (PAM, conditional access), DLP, MFA/certificates, human approval gates, network segmentation, and tamper-resistant logging to mitigate the elevated risk.