Now there's a lot of talk about artificial Intelligence. There's a lot of hype. What does Gartner have to say?
So, "Through 2025, generative AI will cause a spike in cybersecurity resources required to secure it by more than 15%." What does that mean? That means budgets, just the defense mechanisms needed to thwart and back down those threats that are generative AI based will have to go up.
A couple of other stats. The Boston Consulting Group, a large consulting organization just in AI consulting activities alone last year, their revenues grew 20%. And this next one is just fascinating to me. KPMG went from zero AI generated consulting services revenue a year ago to $650 million. So these consulting organizations and these analysts are preparing for this onslaught of AI needs and threats.
Was this news to us? Was this a surprise? Not really. Five years ago, at this very event, at Unite, we made some prognostications, some predictions that artificial intelligence was going to play a central and defining role in cybersecurity. And we started building out our roadmap in a very methodical, mature and safe way to leverage those things that are best with artificial intelligence.
So I ask the audience, with all the hype and all the talk about AI, is it a fad? Is it just a tool? Or is this in fact, and we've seen this before in industry, an inflection point? A real springboard that can change the way that we conduct our daily lives.
Now, no discussion about AI and AI predictions would be worth a darn unless you had some scary robotic pictures. So we've all seen and heard the hype that AI and chatbots, they're going to take over our enterprise, they're going to terminate our employees. It's the end of humanity.
So don't just roll your eyes. There are some scare tactics out there. And if used irresponsibly, sure, there are challenges with AI. We're going to go through how we are going to employ this technology. Because it's going to be critical. So we believe it is an inflection point.
The bad guys have weaponized generative AI for all sorts of things. Let's just talk about deepfakes for a moment. So I'm going to guess that everybody here has either experienced a story or have seen a situation in which a deepfake was used, impersonating perhaps the CEO of your enterprise, to go down to somebody at a lower level, to have an employee confidential file sent to them. Heck, just yesterday we got a phishing attempt with a bogus deepfake that, of course, we thwarted.
But the bad guys, the threat actors, are leveraging generative AI, and they're getting better and better at these deepfakes. But the bottom line is, generative AI is weaponizing the hackers, and it's going to get more and more challenging to defend against. We are leveraging in a very responsible and methodical manner AI and ML, machine learning within identity intelligence for risk detection. Privilege analytics in intelligence, risk based prevention, behavioral driven governance. We're doing all of these today.
Kuppinger Cole, one of the top industry analysts in the identity management space, has lauded our use of these really key technologies to innovate and to help you. Our philosophy is we believe in three stages of AI development. First, leverage it to inform the end user. To guide decision making and then to augment decision making.
So a couple of things that are on our list. Our roadmap list for the use of AI. A common risk engine, pattern recognition, interactive chat box, recommendation engines that will do just that. They will augment our collective decision making. So closing out this first prediction on artificial intelligence, it will play a critical role in cybersecurity. But I have a pledge to each and every one of you. We will never allow your data to be leveraged with GenAI without your permission.
So we will incorporate opt in and opt out capabilities, because there are organizations and agencies that have limitations on the use of AI. I'm convinced that in the days ahead, the days ahead, this will be a much more commonly accepted capability. But you have our pledged.
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