AI has moved CISOs and Cybersecurity to Center Stage!
Darkreading.com reported that “In the wake of AI's explosive growth, security and risk are no longer polite footnotes at the end of a board meeting. Suddenly, everyone from the CEO to the most junior product manager is asking, "What's our plan for AI risk?"” The October 27, 2025 article entitled " CISOs Finally Get a Seat at the Board's Table — But There's a Catch” (https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/cisos-finally-get-seat-board-table) included these comments:
AI has done what decades of breaches, compliance mandates, and "security-first" slogans couldn't fully achieve: it has prompted organizations to make security a standing agenda item. Meaning that for many CISOs, that long fight for a seat at the table is finally over. But there's a catch. This isn't a polite dinner table where we chat about risk in theory. This is a table littered with metaphorical grenades, knives, and trap doors — a high-stakes, high-risk arena where the pace of AI innovation collides head-on with an evolving threat landscape and ever-increasing impacts.
Here's the dilemma. On one hand, we have a mandate to enable AI adoption at the speed of innovation. Business wants to seize every competitive advantage AI offers, whether that's new products, faster insights, better customer experiences, or something else.
On the other hand, we're staring at a flood of emerging vulnerabilities: prompt injection attacks, data leakage, excessive agent autonomy, model poisoning, supply chain risks in AI training data, and the unpredictable behavior of generative models. The tools to manage these risks are still maturing, and industry standards like the OWASP GenAI Project's Top 10s and NIST's AI RMF, are in their infancy. This isn't like rolling out a well-understood Web application firewall or endpoint detection platform. We're operating in uncharted territory. And yet, the expectation is crystal clear: keep us safe, keep us compliant, and don't slow us down.
Good news for CISOs!