CISOs, reshape your response to AI-shifted threats with NIST CSF 2.0

Enterprise CISOs are splitting into two camps on AI. One group is fully behind their company’s AI-first vision; the other is firmly adhering to a security-first ideology. The truth is, AI innovation without security invites chaos, while rigid control without innovation ensures irrelevance. The real task for CISOs is to integrate governing AI with the same rigor they use to defend the enterprise.

At HFS Research and OakTruss Group, we see AI growth hinging on how well organizations are strengthening their security, governance, and control over the data that drives it. However, the real word of warning would be that AI won’t scale if CISOs don’t adapt their approach to data and application security to align with new AI realities. If they don’t change how their enterprises approach security, CISOs will expose data, processes, and intellectual property, leaving enterprises at risk and CISOs looking for new jobs.

In this MVP, we examine the latest version of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF 2.0) and some of our own cybersecurity frameworks that enterprise CISOs can use to understand the intersection of AI and cybersecurity better. These models support the development of a cybersecurity framework that spans the fit assessment of AI, deployment, and the ongoing audit and enforcement needed to scale and protect.

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