SCW Aug 2026 Main Int - Client Report 2026-Global-AI-Cyber-Maturity-Report -july 29 | Page 16

AI Inherited Cybersecurity ' s Oldest Weakness

AI didn ' t create a new problem; it inherited cybersecurity ' s oldest one. In both frameworks, organizations score lowest exactly where awareness has to become action
That ' s why AI readiness can ' t be judged on its own. The AI maturity gap sits on top of a cybersecurity foundation that ' s still catching up, so to see where AI risk is really heading, we need to look at that foundation: the state of cybersecurity maturity itself.

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NIST CSF Protect

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NIST AI RMF 1.0 Manage
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