Gurucul-Insider-Risk-Report-2026.md

The 2026 Insider Risk Report (survey of 725 IT and security professionals) finds insider incidents are now routine and more costly, driven largely by negligent insiders, data proliferation, cloud exposure, and rapid AI adoption; organizations report fragmented tooling, rising detection difficulty, and a widening detection-to-response gap, recommending unified identity/behavior visibility, treating AI as both an insider and defender, and automation/consolidation to regain control.