Topic: From AI Strategy to AI Governance: A CISO’s Guide to Secure AI Adoption
Abstract: Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a strategic business priority, yet AI strategy alone is not enough to ensure a secure and responsible adoption. As AI becomes embedded across enterprise operations, CISOs are increasingly expected to balance innovation with security, regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and organizational trust. The current webinar explores how security leaders can bridge the gap between AI strategy and operational governance, including the AI an organization builds, buys, embeds, and consumes, by establishing visibility, accountability, proportionate controls, and continuous oversight without unnecessarily slowing innovation. The webinar will also provide a roadmap for transforming AI initiatives from isolated technology projects into governed enterprise capabilities. It aims to equip CISOs and security leaders with the governance strategies needed to build resilient, trustworthy, and secure AI ecosystems. Join us to gain insights into integrating cybersecurity principles across every stage of the AI lifecycle, defining governance roles and accountability, managing third-party AI risks, addressing evolving regulatory expectations, and implementing controls for secure AI deployment.
Key Takeaways:
- SEE (Discover the real AI estate): Identify and govern the AI an organization builds, buys, embeds, consumes, and increasingly allows to act
- DECIDE (Establish accountable decision rights): Use risk tiers, ownership, approval authority, human oversight, and escalation thresholds to turn governance into an operating model
- ACT (Operationalize proportionate governance): Apply practical controls, third-party oversight, monitoring, and reassessment without unnecessarily slowing innovation
Speaker:
Emanuel Ohlsen, CCISO | Cyber Risk & AI Governance Advisor
Bio: Emanuel “Manny” Ohlsen, MBA, CCISO, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCAR-P, NCP-AAI, is a cyber risk and AI governance executive advisor who helps organizations translate emerging technology risk into accountable decisions, practical operating models, and defensible business outcomes. As a Principal Security Consultant at Cyderes, he advises enterprise clients in a vCISO capacity across AI governance, cybersecurity strategy, exposure management, GRC modernization, and executive risk oversight. Manny also serves as an Associate Director on the Board of Directors of Xplore Federal Credit Union. Drawing on Big Four and boutique consulting experience, he is a frequent speaker on continuous governance, secure AI adoption, board-level risk, and enabling innovation with accountability.
