As part of this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we invited the best and brightest minds in the enterprise technology market to share their best practices, predictions, and personal anecdotes about the impact of artificial intelligence on their careers, companies, and more. The experts featured represent some of the top influencers, consultants, and solution providers with experience across industries, and each projection has been vetted for relevance and ability to add business value.
Edwin Ng, Chief Information Security Officer of LogicGate
This Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an ideal time for CISOs and risk management teams to rethink their governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) practices as an essential strategy for tackling modern cybersecurity challenges.
As AI fundamentally changes the game for how cybersecurity teams navigate new risks, GRC serves as a “secret weapon,” helping organizations holistically assess where their greatest vulnerabilities lie, fortify areas of their business where unaddressed cyber risks may create the most damage, and proactively plan ahead to prevent those threats from happening in the first place.
However, to mitigate risk in an increasingly AI-centric digital environment, GRC can’t be deployed in a vacuum; it needs to be built on a cybersecurity foundation that prioritizes safe AI deployment and proper human oversight. That’s why organizations must start with the fundamentals: defining their AI risk appetite, establishing clear governance parameters, and breaking down departmental silos to build a unified view of risk. It also means establishing a culture of accountability that sets clear rules of ownership and creating a common security language company-wide to maintain consistency. Once those fundamentals are established, organizations can unlock the full value of GRC and balance AI innovation with responsible governance to maximize ROI of their solutions.