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Governance & risk

How companies govern AI: policies, oversight, security and audit readiness.

Confidence in passing an AI governance audit rises with AI maturityPercent 'very confident' they could pass an independent AI governance audit within 90 days, by AI maturity, 2026

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74%

Source: Grant Thornton, 2026 AI Impact Survey Report: The AI Proof Gap, 2026, p. 8.

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KPMG · Sep 2026Global AI Pulse Q3 2026: AI at scale: Accountability, resilience and economics

34% report significant employee adoption of AI agents, up from 25% in Q1 2026.Executive survey

EY · Sep 2026EY AI Risk and Governance Survey 2026

98% of large US public companies have AI governance policies, but 47% have skipped the process for urgent deployments and 36% reported a materially harmful AI incident.Executive survey

IBM · Jul 2026Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026

Breach costs hit a record $4.99M; AI-enabled attacks rose 56% and heavy use of security AI saved $1.93M per breach.Field study

Veracode · Jul 20262026 GenAI Code Security Report

AI models now write syntactically correct code nearly always, but about 44% of generated code still carried a known vulnerability.Benchmark

Deloitte · Jul 2026CFO Signals Q2 2026: AI governance and risk management

59% say balancing pressure to deploy AI quickly with managing risk is their top AI-governance challenge.Executive survey

Domino · Jul 2026The Fifth Annual Domino Enterprise AI Report

ROI lagging spend held at 57% for a second year, and 41% run agentic AI without governance in place.Executive survey

Grant Thornton · Apr 20262026 AI Impact Survey Report: The AI Proof Gap

Organizations with fully integrated AI report revenue growth far more often than those still piloting: 58% vs 15%.Executive survey

Deloitte · Jan 2026The State of AI in the Enterprise 2026: The untapped edge

34% are using AI to deeply transform the business; 30% are redesigning key processes; 37% use AI at a surface level.Executive survey

Karbon · Jan 2026State of AI in Accounting Report 2026

98% of firms now use AI, with most using it daily or several times a day.Mixed survey

Microsoft · May 2025The Strategic CIO's Generative AI Playbook

Organized in three sections: the AI-ready organization, enabling all employees, and moving from functional workflows to intelligent agents.Playbook

NIST · Jul 2024AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) + Generative AI Profile (NIST-AI-600-1)

AI RMF 1.0 (Jan 2023) organizes AI risk work into four functions: Govern, Map, Measure, Manage; voluntary and sector-neutral.Playbook

ISO · Dec 2023ISO/IEC 42001:2023 AI management systems (overview: What businesses need to know)

ISO/IEC 42001 is described as the world's first AI management system standard, published December 2023 (edition 1, 51 pages).Playbook

WEF · Jan 2022Empowering AI Leadership: AI C-Suite Toolkit

Organized into five modules: introduction to AI, AI strategy, people and organization, responsible AI, and implementation, plus a sixth on specialized topics.Playbook

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