Only 20% of AI Initiatives Hit KPIs as CISOs Doubt Data Controls
SEATTLE – October 23, 2026 -- Only 20% of enterprise AI initiatives meet their intended KPIs, and 65% of CISOs lack confidence in their data security controls, according to new research from data security vendor MIND and the CISO Executive Network.
The report, "The Impact of Data Trust on AI Initiative Success," finds that 90% of organizations already run enterprise GenAI at scale. Security governance has not kept pace with that deployment.
Survey of 124 CISOs finds policies without machine-speed enforcement
The study combines a survey of 124 CISOs with twenty in-depth interviews drawn from the same group. Organizations have AI policies but struggle to enforce them at machine speed, the report says. Data estates remain unclassified and ungoverned, and security frameworks were built for human behavior rather than autonomous systems.