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44.8%

44.8% -- percentage of it professionals with partial visibility into employee ai usage for IT & cybersecurity professionals (2026)

Name: Percentage Of It Professionals With Partial Visibility Into Employee AI Usage Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-10-05

2026 · n=1,200 · Bitdefender

44.8% of IT & cybersecurity professionals acknowledge they only have partial visibility into employee AI usage.

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Value

44.8%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2026

Entity

IT & cybersecurity professionals

Sample Size

1,200

Geography

APAC

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

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Source Trust

Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

Bitdefender Primary Tier A

https://bitdefender.in/rapidly-rising-risk-ai-in-the-shadows/ ↗

Confidence: 57/100 Vintage: 2026 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

AI in the Shadows: The Rapidly Rising Cybersecurity Risk

Original Research

Bitdefender · Original study ↗

Methodology

2026 Bitdefender Cybersecurity Assessment survey of 1,200 IT & cybersecurity professionals

Methodology documented

Segmentation

IndustryCybersecurity Company Sizeenterprise RegionAPAC RoleIT & Cybersecurity Professionals

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IT & cybersecurity professionals: 44.8% percentage of it professionals with partial visibility into employee ai usage. Source: Bitdefender (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/partial-ai-visibility-2026

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