
CISO Village Survey 2026
Based on the perspectives of 120 CISOs from Fortune 500 companies and leading enterprises worldwide.
This year’s CISO insights show a market crossing a threshold. AI agents are no longer a future concern or isolated PoC. They are already embedded in enterprise operations, reshaping the threat surface and changing how CISOs allocate budget and evaluate new vendors. The numbers below show how quickly that shift is unfolding, and where the biggest gaps are opening as adoption moves faster than security.
AI is no longer another item on the security agenda. It is becoming the lens through which CISOs rethink risk, architecture, investment, and control.
As agents move into production, CISOs are confronting a new set of questions: where agents are running, what they can access, how they behave, and who is accountable.