Heimdal Survey: Executives Four Times More Confident About AI Risk Than the Teams Managing It
London, United Kingdom, June 17th, 2026, CyberNewswire
New research from cybersecurity company Heimdal finds 29% of US executives say AI risk is under control, against 7% of the practitioners running it day-to-day. Across 1,000 IT professionals in the UK and US, AI adoption has outpaced security controls by roughly two to one.
Heimdal today published The State of AI Risk Management in 2026, a survey of 1,000 IT professionals across the United Kingdom and the United States.
The report’s headline finding is a divide inside the same organizations: the closer a person sits to the day-to-day running of AI, the less confident they are that the risk is contained. In the US, 29% of C-suite and VP respondents say their organization has AI risk under control, against 7% of the mid-level practitioners managing it.
In the UK, the gap runs the same way, 18% to 11%. Both gaps are...
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