What Do Cybersecurity Leaders Want From AI?

All of us get distracted by the bright shiny object. It seems luminous and irresistible, shining out in the darkness, beckoning.

Admit it: AI is your current bright shiny object. 

We keep an eye out for cybersecurity & AI material. Sometimes we run across posts that are excellent and we feel the need to create more community by bringing them to your attention. Here's one such post from LinkedIn by Val Tsenev. It deserves your time.

I've boiled down his post to this question: What do CISOs want from AI?

1. Measurable risk reduction. What risks does the AI platform mitigate and how?

2. Explainability & auditability. As Val says, "Black-box AI is a liability, not an asset."

3. Integration into their existing workflows. It cannot stand alone.

4. Governance and human oversight. There is always a person somewhere on, in, atop, or something the loop.

Val concludes: "CISOs aren't rejecting AI. They're rejecting AI that's irrelevant, unvalidated, or ungoverned."

Ka-pow!

I'm addressing this issue because it speaks directly to cybersecurity leadership talent. You will lose your job if your answer to an AI vendor is, when can we get this?! Cybersecurity leadership talent is about conceptualizing AI as an integral part of the defense process. AI is not by itself the process. That takes understanding the strategic and risk priorities of the organization, and aligning the AI platform relative to those priorities.

You can have a bright shiny object, but you have to shine the light in the right direction.

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