Topic: Building AI-Ready Security Programs: A Leader’s Guide to Compliance
Abstract: As artificial intelligence becomes embedded across enterprise systems, security and compliance programs must evolve beyond traditional control frameworks. AI introduces new categories of risk—adaptive threats, automated exploitation, data integrity challenges, and regulatory uncertainty—that outpace legacy governance models. In this environment, compliance is no longer a static requirement but a continuous leadership function tied directly to operational resilience and trust.
This session provides a practical leadership framework for building AI-ready security programs that integrate compliance into enterprise architecture, enabling organizations to innovate responsibly while maintaining regulatory confidence and operational resilience.
This session explores how leaders can design and mature AI-ready security programs by aligning governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) with the realities of dynamic, data-driven systems. It examines how regulatory expectations are shifting in response to AI adoption and how organizations can maintain auditability, transparency, and accountability as they integrate rapidly evolving technologies.
Participants will gain insight into how to structure security programs that support both innovation and regulatory alignment without introducing operational friction. The discussion highlights the importance of embedding compliance into system design, ensuring that controls are not retrofitted but engineered into AI-enabled workflows from the outset.
Key Takeaways:
- How AI is reshaping security and compliance expectations across industries
- The leadership role in aligning governance, risk, and AI adoption strategies
- How to build compliance into AI systems from design through deployment
- The limitations of traditional GRC models in dynamic AI environments
- Strategies for maintaining auditability, transparency, and accountability
- How to balance innovation speed with regulatory and operational control
Speaker:
Dewayne Hart, Speaker Agent | Hire Cybersecurity Speaker
Bio: Dewayne Hart is a cybersecurity strategist, author, and trusted advisor who helps CISOs and executive teams align security risk with measurable business outcomes. In an era where cyber threats evolve faster than most organizations can respond, Hart delivers the clarity, strategy, and leadership frameworks security leaders need to stay ahead.
His signature “Hacker’s Hat” philosophy challenges CISOs to move beyond compliance and think like adversaries — building proactive cultures of defense rather than reactive incident response. His approach bridges the gap between technical realities and executive decision-making, equipping leadership teams to treat cybersecurity as a core business priority.
A military veteran with experience across corporate America and the federal government, Hart founded Secure Managed Instructional Systems (SEMAIS) in 2014, advising global enterprises and federal agencies including PwC, Kaiser Permanente, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. His firm is guided by a singular mission: “Sustaining 360-Degree Cyber Visibility.”
He is the author of The Cybersecurity Mindset: A Virtual and Transformational Thinking Mode and Cybersecurity Leadership — How to Develop a Successful Mentality and Win — essential reading for security leaders navigating the AI era. He has inspired executives and practitioners at the National Cybersecurity Summit, Incyber Forum, and Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference.
His mission: build organizations that are not just defended — but truly cyber-ready.
