{"id":250610,"date":"2026-05-20T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/isc2-report-ai-tops-cybersecurity-risks-and-opportunities\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:05:23","slug":"isc2-report-ai-tops-cybersecurity-risks-and-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/isc2-report-ai-tops-cybersecurity-risks-and-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"ISC2 Report: AI Tops Cybersecurity Risks and Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelinsider.com\/security\/isc2-ai-cybersecurity-risk-opportunity-report\/\">ISC2 Report: AI Tops Cybersecurity Risks and Opportunities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelinsider.com\/security\/isc2-ai-cybersecurity-risk-opportunity-report\/\">https:\/\/www.channelinsider.com\/security\/isc2-ai-cybersecurity-risk-opportunity-report\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 12:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.channelinsider.com\">www.channelinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Channel Insider  content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners.   Learn More   <\/p>\n<p>A new study from ISC2 has found that cybersecurity professionals now see AI as both their biggest opportunity and biggest threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The findings point to a field at an inflection point, with teams moving to adopt AI for defense while preparing for more scalable, convincing AI-enabled attacks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Delta Bear CEO: Deepfake Attacks Create MSP Opportunity\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q0T_e3f9Kbo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"ai-ranks-as-top-security-opportu\">AI ranks as top security opportunity and threat<\/h2>\n<p>The research presented respondents with a list of emerging technologies and asked them to rank which would have the greatest positive impact on organizational security and which could pose the greatest negative impact.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, 41% of respondents said advancements in AI will have the greatest positive impact on security. Interestingly, 52% also said AI would have the greatest negative impact.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This paradox shows AI might be cybersecurity\u2019s clearest double-edged sword: a great opportunity, and an equally great threat.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"cybersecurity-teams-weigh-ai-ben\">Cybersecurity teams weigh AI benefits against risks<\/h3>\n<p>Respondents identified the following technologies as having the greatest positive impact on security:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advancements in AI (41%)<\/li>\n<li>Automation in cybersecurity (35%)<\/li>\n<li>Zero trust network access (33%)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Passwordless authentication (22%),<\/li>\n<li>Agentic AI (21%)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Risk\u2011based vulnerability management (21%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, when asked which technologies could have the most significant negative impact on security, the rankings shifted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advancements in AI (52%)<\/li>\n<li>Agentic AI (34%)<\/li>\n<li>Quantum computing (32%)<\/li>\n<li>Increase in processing power and speed (19%)<\/li>\n<li>Mobile computing advances (17%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ISC2 said the contrasting rankings highlight the complex challenge cybersecurity professionals face with AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI is not a single-dimensional tool. It is simultaneously an accelerator for defenders and a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelinsider.com\/security\/isc2-ai-cybersecurity-risk-opportunity-report\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISC2 Report: AI Tops Cybersecurity Risks and Opportunities https:\/\/www.channelinsider.com\/security\/isc2-ai-cybersecurity-risk-opportunity-report\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-20 12:15:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.channelinsider.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/man-night-and-coding-in-office-computer-or-blank-2026-03-25-06-57-52-utc-1.jpg?f=jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,57,27],"class_list":["post-250610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-security","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250612,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250610\/revisions\/250612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}