Security News > 2024 > July > The CISO’s approach to AI: Balancing transformation with trust

How should CISOs approach AI adoption? When weighing new AI tools, CISOs must examine the risk of a few key factors.

These considerations apply to all tools that may leverage AI across all business departments, not just security tools that use AI. The first is data handling practices, from collection and processing to storage and encryption, ensuring robust access controls are in place.

Other third-party tools may have small AI integrations automatically turned on without CISO visibility.

Beyond establishing guardrails for assessing AI tools, it's also imperative that companies develop acceptable use policies around AI to ensure that every employee knows how to use the tools appropriately and mitigate risks.

Data accuracy checks are essential for preventing generative AI tools from outputting hallucinations.

If any AI tools ingest customer data, customers should be notified about what data is being used, what it's being used for, and where the outputs are going.

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