Kiteworks-Data-Security-Compliance-Risk-Annual-Survey-2026.md

This 2026 Data Security and Compliance Risk forecast synthesizes a survey of 225 security, IT, and risk leaders to deliver 15 predictions about AI-driven data security, highlighting major gaps—particularly in agentic AI containment, evidence-quality audit trails, board-level governance, and data sovereignty—and provides immediate, medium-term, and long-term strategic recommendations for organizations to adopt DSPM, centralized AI gateways, training-data controls, incident response playbooks with vendors, and post-quantum cryptography planning.