Why AI auditability is what every security leader should be talking about
When I joined Smartsheet, one of my first priorities was understanding where AI was actually operating across the business.
What I found was less a deliberate strategy than an honest reflection of how fast things had moved: AI tools embedded in workflows, some vendor-approved, some not, adopted by smart people solving real problems faster than policy could keep up with.
When I went back to some of those vendors to understand what we were actually dealing with — what data the model had accessed, what actions it had taken — the answers were thin. The audit infrastructure simply wasn't there.
That combination of tools already embedded in our environment with no traceable record of what they'd done is what sharpened my thinking. The risk wasn't the tools themselves; it was the invisibility.
The instinct for most securityleaders is to ask: "How do we control it?" But control implies...
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