AI Threats Are Everywhere. A Risk-First CISO Decides What to Prioritize
CSO Online, Friday, August 21st, 2026
CSO Online argues CISOs must triage AI risk by business impact because AI arms attackers and defenders equally.
CSO Online frames AI security as a duality: it gives defenders some of the best discovery tooling they have ever had while giving attackers the same capability. That leaves CISOs managing AI on two simultaneous fronts.
Outside the organization, attackers use AI to make phishing more convincing, automate reconnaissance and compress the time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation. Inside, the organization is adopting AI faster than it can govern it.
The article argues a risk-first CISO decides what to prioritize based on which risks could hurt the business most rather than attempting to address everything.