Most enterprise security teams believe they have third party risk under control. They send out questionnaires, review SOC 2 reports, and negotiate vendor contracts.
In the age of enterprise AI, this traditional approach is no longer enough. It is dangerously incomplete.
The real risk has shifted from vendors to dependencies. We are moving away from legal agreements to neural weights, embeddings, retrieval pipelines, and agent frameworks. You can build a textbook Zero Trust architecture in AWS, but if the models or data feeding your AI systems are compromised, your entire security perimeter can be undermined from within.
This is the new reality of AI Supply Chain Risk.
From Vendor Risk to AI Dependency Risk
