The AI threat landscape: what security leaders should plan for now

Generative AI is not one big scary box. It is a bunch of new ways things can break: trust in what people see and hear, where data wanders off to, and how quietly a bad workflow can spread. Teams that cope well treat AI like plumbing with owners, not like a checkbox on a vendor demo.

Start small and useful: write down where AI shows up in your company, decide which data types are flat out off limits, log access for the scary workflows, and rehearse what you would do if someone abused a model or a supplier in the chain.

Rules help, tooling helps, but identity still matters most. Know who may use what, from where, with what data, and pay attention when that picture drifts.