AI threats are everywhere. A risk-first CISO decides what to prioritize
Brief
The good news? AI gives cyber defenders some of the best discovery tooling they’ve ever had.
The bad news? It gives attackers the same capability.
This duality has left CISOs managing AI on two simultaneous fronts. Outside the organization, attackers are using AI to make phishing more convincing, automate reconnaissance and compress the time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation. The OpenAI/Hugging Face and JADEPUFFER incidents exposed the risk of autonomous agents carrying out end-to-end attacks without human direction.
Inside the organization, employees are adopting AI tools faster than security teams can govern them, and sensitive data is flowing into consumer AI platforms where it is not protected.
As a CISO myself, I’m noticing that when it comes to AI, the temptation is to try to secure everything, everywhere, all at once. That’s impossible.