October 9, 2026

AI has become the shiny new toy in the business world. It’s dominating the conversation, from boardrooms and industry conferences to the news and everyday life. Organizations are eager to get AI projects moving, and understandably, no one wants to miss the bandwagon.
I share that excitement. In fact, I’m steering my own career toward AI security and governance because AI has changed, and will continue to change, how we work, live and play. The rapid growth of AI, and more importantly the speed at which people are adopting it, will have a more profound impact on our daily lives than the PC or the internet did. Research from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis found that nearly 40% of U.S. adults had used generative AI within two years of ChatGPT’s launch, roughly double the internet’s adoption rate at the same point. But as a CISSP, one question keeps coming back to me: in the race to become an “AI company,” how do we make sure security, privacy, intellectual property rights and governance keep pace?
It’s a question worth asking early, because it’s much easier to build these protections in from the start than to add them later.