Heimdal Survey: Executives Four Times More Confident About AI Risk Than the Teams Managing It

Heimdal's "The State of AI Risk Management in 2026" summarizes a survey of 1,000 IT professionals showing executives are more confident than frontline practitioners about AI risk, AI tools are widely adopted while security controls lag, visibility increases concern about data leakage, and organizations should treat AI as part of core IT with procurement, contractual and technical controls; the release notes a separate publicly disclosed incident where CISA documents were uploaded to ChatGPT but provides no forensic details.