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The Mind of the CISO

The New Insider: Rethinking Risk in the AI Era

How AI agents and autonomous systems are reshaping insider risk, creating new visibility and accountability gaps, and driving the need for machine-speed detection and defense.

600 CISOs and senior security leaders across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific region share their insights on how AI agents and autonomous systems are reshaping insider risk. Respondents work across industries including finance, public sector, healthcare (public and private), manufacturing, energy, oil, gas, and utilities. The report sheds light on:

The visibility and accountability gaps within organizations as AI becomes part of daily work
The cost of trusted access for AI and autonomous systems
How AI is reshaping the threat landscape as well as security defense
How insider risk is reshaping the CISO role

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Numbers tell the story

95%

of organizations experienced an insider incident linked to the actions of an AI or autonomous system over the past 12 months

74%

agree AI has introduced risks traditional security controls were not designed to address

$2.4M

is the average cost of insider-related security incidents

79%

expect their organization to be targeted by an AI-assisted attack exploiting trusted users, identities, or systems over the next 12 months

99%

say AI and automation will be essential to managing insider risk

41%

plan to prioritize investment in detection and response for AI-related risks

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Incident investigation gets exponentially harder when complex autonomous workflows obscure lines between routine behavior and malicious network anomalies, straining our response teams."

— Chief Security Officer, Financial Services, Singapore

I know some of what is happening, but a lot of risky behavior is getting through. We are chasing the wrong people and chasing false positives. Too many low-level alerts, so we need to prioritize."

— Chief Security Officer, Public Sector, Colombia

As business processes become increasingly digitized, new risks such as human error, misuse of internal data, and AI systems are making internal risk management more challenging."

— CISO, Public Sector, Japan

Our greatest challenge is not to prevent employees from using AI tools, but rather how to prevent data leakage without stifling productivity."

— Chief Security Officer, IT/Computer Services, US

Ensuring compliance with increasingly strict global privacy regulations while implementing necessary monitoring technologies to detect insider threats forces us to balance security needs with employee trust constantly."

— CTO, Energy, Oil/Gas and Utilities, Singapore

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