Preparing Security Teams for AI Adoption
Security teams meet enterprise AI twice: first as the thing employees are already using without asking, then as the thing the business formally wants to deploy. A security function prepared for both becomes the reason AI adoption is safe and fast; an unprepared one becomes either the department of no — which drives usage underground — or a rubber stamp that discovers the risks in an incident report. This post is the adoption program's view of AI security: what's genuinely new, and how to get ahead of it.
Security meets AI twice: as shadow AI employees already use, then as the systems the business wants to deploy. Treat shadow AI as demand signal, learn the genuinely new surface — prompts as exfiltration, injection via content, agents as non-human identities, fluent wrongness — and build the paved road with risk-tiered review so the safe path is the fast path.