CISOs say boardrooms still don’t grasp the human cyber risk AI is supercharging
A MetaCompliance survey finds 76% of European CISOs say their boards underestimate AI-supercharged human risk — a governance gap that could become a NIS2 compliance liability.
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More than three-quarters of European CISOs believe their C-suite doesn’t fully understand the cyber risk posed by their own employees, a gap that’s widening just as AI makes attacks on human judgement faster, more convincing and harder to spot. That’s according to new research from MetaCompliance, the human cyber risk management firm, which polled 200 […] The post CISOs say boardrooms still don’t grasp the human cyber risk AI is supercharging appeared first on IT Security Guru .
Editorial Analysis
As AI makes social engineering faster and harder to detect, the board-level awareness gap documented here becomes a material governance risk under NIS2 and DORA.
Present quantified AI-phishing risk scenarios to the board and secure funding for AI-aware security-awareness training.
Most European CISOs say their boards underestimate how AI is amplifying cyber risk from employees — a gap regulators may scrutinise.
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