Cye Recommendations
How to Close the Gap
Knowing the gap isn ' t closing it. These steps move organizations from awareness to action, ordered from the foundation up.
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Map your AI before your next board meeting. Inventory every AI tool, model, and service in use, including the shadow AI teams adopted on their own. You can ' t govern what you can ' t see, and this unlocks everything else.
Give AI risk a named owner. The CISO effect extends to AI: organizations with explicit executive ownership have far fewer unresolved AI findings. Assign the accountability, and the authority to act on it.
Fix the basics first. Protect is the lowest function two years running. Redirect spend to patch management, access controls, and security headers, the cheapest and most neglected path to maturity.
Extend vendor risk to AI. Insufficient vendor risk management is the single most common governance finding. Update assessments for AI-specific criteria, training data, model updates, data residency, and failure modes. Every third-party model is a dependency your program wasn ' t built for.
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