CISOs face a defining test as AI reshapes where enterprise risk decisions get made
CISO AI risk management is emerging as the defining test of the AI era, pushing security leaders beyond blocking attacks and into the middle of enterprise decisions about how much risk a business is willing to accept. That tension is playing out this week as thousands of practitioners converge on Las Vegas, where AI has propelled the cybersecurity world into a new phase, driven by startlingly advanced autonomous attacks and an urgent need to adopt technology to defend against them.
Much of that pressure is now landing squarely on the CISO, who is increasingly expected to act as connective tissue across legal, compliance, engineering and the business itself, according to Krista Case (pictured, left), principal analyst and practice lead for cyber resilience and security at theCUBE Research.
“I’ve also been thinking about this AI governance through the lens of the different roles that the CISO has to collaborate with within the enterprise — things like legal, compliance, engineering, IT,” Case said. “They almost have to be sort of the connective tissue helping to facilitate these conversations. So they’re really becoming a business enabler.”
