Jonathan Gill, CEO at Panaseer
As the IT, threat and business landscapes evolve, cybersecurity leaders are being forced to adapt. controls, creating new attack vectors that require innovative, real-time protection strategies.
As AI models increasingly interact with sensitive business data, legal risks, including intellectual property( IP) infringement, model hallucinations and data leakage, come to the fore. Businesses must ensure that both training datasets and AI-generated outputs are compliant with intellectual property laws, while also safeguarding against the accidental disclosure of sensitive information.
The future of AI security hinges on a data-centric approach. This includes developing solutions that identify, classify, tag, enforce and monitor data – both structured and unstructured – at run time and at rest. Organisations must prioritise and balance data strategies that not only maximise the value of their data but also minimise the risks associated with its use in AI development and deployment.
Also to ensure that AI-driven solutions remain compliant with upcoming AI legal and regulatory standards, as well as existing regional and industry data privacy laws that already govern sensitive data, futureproofing for compliance is essential. A proactive approach that embeds security into the data itself helps organisations avoid reputational damage, financial penalties and operational disruptions caused by inadvertent violations of data protection laws.
This evolving landscape presents both challenges and opportunities. By adopting AI-native security solutions, organisations not only address the new vulnerabilities introduced by Generative AI but also ensure that they are well-positioned to protect their data, customers and brand reputation in the future.
Jonathan Gill, CEO at Panaseer
As the IT, threat and business landscapes evolve, cybersecurity leaders are being forced to adapt. Today’ s CISOs have evolved from focusing on technology-related matters to also managing and communicating risk to business leadership.
In the wake of highly publicised attacks – such as the SUNBURST SolarWinds breach – regulators like the SEC are tightening their grip on board accountability. CISOs are under greater scrutiny and pressure to provide stronger assurances on security controls than ever before. Reporting to meet these demands takes up 46 % of CISOs’ teams’ time. And 72 % believe they could stop more breaches if they spent less time reporting.
Ownership, accountability and responsibility are positives in cybersecurity, but if taken too far they put undue stress on individuals, rather than the collective. The industry must avoid putting a target on one person’ s back. After all, 47 % of security leaders report feeling more anxious. If this blame game culture continues whilst CISOs are left powerless to provide accurate assurances, many will leave the industry – which 15 % have already considered.
While other business units are empowered with specialised tools to enable data-driven insight, CISOs are often left to make do with disparate tools and no single, trusted view. For CISOs to meet compliance, they need a system of record offering a transparent view of every asset within an organisation. With this golden source of truth, CISOs are empowered to provide assurances, report risk in good faith, discover gaps in security, and plug them before incidents take place, protecting themselves and their company.
To adapt to the complex threat landscape, CISOs need to understand cyber risk and communicate it effectively to the business. First comes building that understanding: with visibility over the different cyber tools and controls in place, transparency over where risk exposure is greatest, and centralising this information. Then comes translating into the language of the business, building a culture of accountability for different controls and harnessing a scientific approach to data to prioritise the most urgent and effective action.
With trusted data presented in the right context, businesses can create a culture of collective responsibility so that everyone gets what they want – in this case, a more secure business that is more proactive in addressing threats and reducing risk.
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