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

Heimdal's survey of 1,000 UK and US IT professionals finds AI adoption is widespread but security controls lag by roughly two-to-one, with a notable confidence gap between executives and frontline practitioners; the report urges treating AI as part of the core IT estate with procurement, contractual, inventory and technical controls. It also cites a publicly disclosed January 2026 incident where a CISA acting director uploaded sensitive 'For Official Use Only' documents to ChatGPT to illustrate real-world data leakage risk.