Technical controls secure AI. Human Risk Management reduces the incidents AI can enable. Learn how leading organizations are extending Human Risk Management across people and AI agents to measurably reduce workforce risk.
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88%of organizations use gen AI in at least one function.McKinsey, 2025
10/7310% of users drive 73% of organizational risk.Cyentia · Living Security, 2025
1,265%surge in AI-linked phishing since 2023.SlashNext, 2023
What you'll learn
Four things you'll take from this report.
The six categories of human–AI interaction risk — from data exposure to synthetic identity.
Why annual, one-size-fits-all awareness training is structurally outmatched by AI-era threats.
The Predict · Guide · Act operating model for continuous, identity-aware risk reduction.
Five strategic moves CISOs can make to produce measurable risk reduction in 12 months.
Inside the report
Nine sections. One argument: AI risk is a human problem.
Written for CISOs and AI governance leaders. Grounded in five years of telemetry across 100+ enterprises and 300+ behavioral signals.
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Executive summaryThe largest emerging attack surface in enterprise AI is not the model.
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The enterprise AI explosionBottom-up adoption that has outpaced every prior platform shift.
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The new human attack surfaceSix categories of human–AI interaction risk.
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Why traditional models failAnnual training cannot move at the pace of weekly threats.
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HRM for the AI eraIdentify. Understand. Adapt.
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The future of AI defense is adaptiveEmbrace adoption; pair it with workforce visibility.
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Strategic recommendations for CISOsFive moves that produce measurable reduction in 12 months.
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The workforce of the future is hybridHumans and the AI agents acting on their behalf — one risk surface.
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Conclusion · About · SourcesThe future of AI security is not just technical. It is human.
The thesis of this paper
Technical controls govern what an AI system can do. Human Risk Management governs what the workforce — humans and the agents acting on their behalf — will do.
The framework
Predict. Guide. Act.
How Living Security manages human risk in the AI era — the operating model the whitepaper details in full.
Step 01
Predict
Continuously identify and quantify human risk across behavior, access, and threat. Telemetry, not surveys.
Step 02
Guide
Turn risk intelligence into clear, actionable guidance — where risk is concentrated, why, and what to do next.
Step 03
Act
Reduce risk through adaptive intervention. The right action, to the right person, at the right time.
What good looks like
Customer outcomes, measured in 12 months.
50%fewer risky users within 12 months of program launch.
60%faster remediation across the highest-priority risks.
98%reduction in data-loss exposure among the highest-risk users.
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