Logicalis’ CIO Report shows that as AI use grows, gaps in visibility, governance and organisational behaviour are heightening security risks.
As AI adoption accelerates across enterprise environments, new research from global technology service provider, Logicalis, suggests that it is introducing complex cybersecurity challenges that many organisations are still struggling to manage effectively.
The findings reportedly show that AI is already affecting how security teams operate, with more than two in five CIOs (41%) saying the introduction of AI has worsened incident response times within their organisations, while over a third (35%) believe it has reduced their ability to detect breaches and cyber-attacks effectively and 34% report that AI has introduced new security blind spots into their environments.
Together, these insights are said to point to the growing complexity organisations must manage as AI technologies become embedded across enterprise systems, expanding both the capabilities of modern IT environments and the scale of the security challenges they create.
Mike Fry, Infrastructure, Data & Security Solutions Director at Logicalis UKI commented: “AI is introducing a new level of complexity into enterprise environments and security teams are being asked to manage risks that are evolving just as quickly as the technology itself.
“As organisations embed AI more deeply into their operations, maintaining visibility and control becomes significantly more challenging, particularly if governance frameworks, skills and oversight are not evolving at the same pace.”
According to the report, visibility of AI usage is already emerging as a major concern for organisations, with just over a third (37%) of CIOs saying they have full visibility of all the AI tools and services being used across their organisation.
This is said to leave a significant proportion operating without a complete view of how AI is being deployed, highlighting how rapidly adoption has moved beyond initial experimentation and into widespread use, often outpacing the governance frameworks designed to manage it.
As organisations shift from proof of concept to scaling AI across the enterprise, the challenge is reportedly no longer adoption, but control.
Logicalis has stated that this gap between ambition and organisational readiness is further reflected in how companies are managing AI governance.
Nearly two-thirds of CIOs, according to the report, (62%) admit they have compromised or relaxed AI governance standards due to limited knowledge or capability, highlighting the growing tension between innovation and effective risk management.
Fry continued: “We are well beyond the proof of concept stage with AI.
“When only a third of organisations have full visibility of AI usage, it’s a clear sign that this is no longer just a technology challenge; it’s a cultural one.
“Most organisations are now trying to scale AI, but without the right behaviours, accountability and oversight in place, visibility quickly breaks down.”
As organisations transition from early adoption to industrialising AI across the enterprise, these gaps in visibility and governance become exponentially harder to manage, says Logicalis.
At the point where AI is being industrialised at pace, organisations are reportedly introducing new layers of complexity and risk into their environments.
According to the company, without the right oversight, skills and cultural alignment, AI can quickly create blind spots that security teams struggle to manage.
The focus now must shift from ‘how do we adopt AI?’ to ‘how do we govern and secure it at scale?’ added Fry.
Taken together, the company reports that the findings highlight a clear shift in priority: While AI offers significant opportunities to improve productivity and innovation, organisations must now prioritise strengthening governance, improving visibility of AI usage and ensuring security operations can keep pace with increasingly complex, AI-driven environments.
Fry concluded: “As AI systems become more embedded and autonomous, the role of the CIO is evolving rapidly.
“Success will depend not just on deploying AI, but on building the organisational discipline, accountability and expertise needed to manage it securely at scale.”
At the end of 2025, Logicalis commissioned independent market research specialist Vanson Bourne to do a survey.
Vanson Bourne interviewed 1,000 Business and IT professionals across EMEA, APAC, US and South America.
Only respondents with “decision-maker” roles in organisations with a minimum of 250 employees and with involvement with the implementation of AI within their organisations, were interviewed.
The 2026 CIO report marks the 12th consecutive year Logicalis has undertaken this study.
