A SANS Institute report points to rising AI use in cyber defense and a widening split between leadership enthusiasm and the controls frontline teams actually need.
The real disruption is not a clean wave of job loss, but a slower rewrite of how work is divided, judged, and learned across sectors.
A 1,000-person survey in the UK and US shows a familiar security failure mode: adoption accelerates first, while inventory, permissions, and data controls arrive late.
Unsanctioned AI use is creating a governance gap in many workplaces, where employees may move sensitive information into tools that sit outside approved controls.