While AI adoption is widespread, its impact on productivity, trust, and team structure varies sharply by role and region, according to Exabeam. The findings confirm a critical divide: 71% of executives believe AI has significantly improved productivity across their security teams, yet only 22% of analysts — those closest to the tools — agree. This perception gap reveals more than a difference in opinion; it underscores a deeper issue with operational effectiveness and trust. Executives … More → The post One in three security teams trust AI to act autonomously appeared first on Help Net Security.
That disparity sounds about right for just about everything in corporate companies. C-level execs always think the fancy new tools are doing more than the reality. And even if the actual employees that work with those tools daily have complaints, middle manglement prevents that from ever actually getting back to the C-level.
I’ve worked in all levels of management, including C-level at a Fortune 500 company, and I can tell you that from the perspective of the C level, the tools are a given. If the employees have complaints about the tools, the perception is that either the mid to lower level management or the employees are not competent and need to be replaced with ones that are able to deliver on the promise of the tools.
(I say this without judgement - most of the time it’s BS, some of the time it’s true)