How CIOs and CISOs can govern AI without slowing the business

By Ramit Luthra, Principal Consultant – North America, 5Tattva

Artificial intelligence has moved from strategic discussion to operational reality. For CIOs and CISOs, AI is no longer a future initiative to be evaluated. It is already embedded in development pipelines, service desks, analytics platforms, and business decision workflows, often through tools adopted faster than governance and security models can adapt.

This creates a familiar leadership tension. The business expects speed and measurable outcomes. Technology and security leaders are expected to protect data, manage risk, and maintain regulatory posture. AI intensifies this challenge by introducing new data flows, opaque processing, and third-party dependencies that traditional controls were never designed to fully govern.

What makes this moment different is not the technology itself, but the direction of travel. The way organizations adopt AI today is reshaping how cybersecurity risk is defined, how audits are conducted, and how confidence is established ...