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AI incident response readiness lags AI adoption across organizations

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Organizations are widening AI use in security operations without matching AI incident response preparation, creating a readiness gap for AI-enabled attacks and misuse. In a 2026 survey, 71% of organizations had not run any AI incident response exercises, only 3% had mature formal runbooks, and 30% had not started response planning. The gap sits alongside rising operational strain, with more attacks, heavier stress, understaffing, and underfunding reported by European IT and cybersecurity professionals.

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  1. 22.09.2026 16:00 2 articles · 0h ago

    ISACA finds AI incident response readiness lags behind AI adoption

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    ISACA's 2026 State of Cyber report says 71% of organizations have not run AI incident response exercises, only 3% have mature formal AI-specific runbooks, and 30% have not started response planning, even as 37% use AI to automate threat detection and response and other teams expand AI into routine security and endpoint tasks. The report also highlights AI-enabled phishing, fraud, social engineering, employee misuse of generative AI, and sensitive data exposure through AI systems as scenarios that current response plans are not yet prepared to handle.

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