The Visibility Deficit: The 2026 AI Cybersecurity Report

Your executives and your practitioners are describing two different companies. This report shows you where the picture splits, and what it's costing you.

46% of IT managers say their organization has had security incidents that were never formally reported. Only 17% of executives agree. That discrepancy on whether or not something happened is eye-opening.

DNSFilter partnered with CensusWide to survey 400 IT and cybersecurity professionals across the US and Canada. The report maps the gap between what leadership believes about AI risk and what practitioners actually see on the network, including shadow AI activity, OAuth blind spots, and autonomous agent exposure sitting in between.

Inside this report:

• Why 74% of executives are confident they'd survive a 72-hour attack, and fewer than half their own IT teams agree
• The industries and company sizes carrying the most unmanaged AI risk
• Why bigger security budgets haven't closed the gap—and in some cases made it worse

• What to ask in your next leadership meeting instead of "are we confident?"