{"id":243548,"date":"2026-05-11T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/gartner-genai-has-broken-traditional-cybersecurity-awareness-what-comes-next\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:30:09","slug":"gartner-genai-has-broken-traditional-cybersecurity-awareness-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/gartner-genai-has-broken-traditional-cybersecurity-awareness-what-comes-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner: GenAI has broken traditional cybersecurity awareness \u2013 what comes next?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gartner: GenAI has broken traditional cybersecurity awareness \u2013 what comes next?<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/pro\/gartner-genai-has-broken-traditional-cybersecurity-awareness-what-comes-next<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-11 06:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cybersecurity awareness has long relied on a simple premise: educate employees, reduce risk. But in 2026, that model is no longer holding.<\/p>\n

Alex Michaels<\/span><\/p>\n

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Director Analyst at Gartner.<\/p>\n

Generative AI (GenAI) is accelerating the threat landscape and increasing the likelihood of human error. The same tools organizations are adopting to drive productivity and innovation are also creating new opportunities for misuse and more sophisticated attacks.<\/p>\n

This highlights the gap between traditional awareness programs and modern cyber risk.<\/p>\n

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For security and risk management leaders, awareness alone is no longer enough.<\/p>\n

The human risk surface is expanding<\/h2>\n

GenAI adoption has surged across organizations, with more than 86% now piloting or deploying these tools. What began as experimentation has quickly become embedded in day-to-day workflows, often without corresponding governance or oversight.<\/p>\n

Employees are not waiting for formal approval. Many are turning to personal GenAI accounts for work tasks, inputting sensitive data into public tools, or downloading unapproved applications. This phenomenon, often described as \u201cshadow AI,\u201d is increasing employee-initiated cybersecurity risk.<\/p>\n

According to Gartner\u2019s 2025 Cybersecurity Innovations in AI Risk Management and Use Survey, over 57% of employees use personal GenAI accounts for work, and 33% admit to inputting sensitive work information into public or unapproved GenAI tools.<\/p>\n

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External threats are evolving as well. Deepfakes and advanced phishing attacks are becoming more sophisticated due to GenAI capabilities. The survey finds 35% of organizations have been affected by deepfake attacks, and AI-assisted phishing emails have doubled over the past two years, making some threats harder for employees to detect.<\/p>\n

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