Why every CEO needs to think like a CISO in the age of AI

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By Rajesh Dangi

Artificial intelligence is no longer a frontier technology. It is the engine of modern business, reshaping industries, redefining competitive advantage, and rewiring the very fabric of how organisations operate.

Yet as companies race to adopt AI at breakneck speed, a dangerous gap is emerging between those who simply use AI and those who truly govern it. The distinction matters profoundly, and it is one that every board director, chief executive, and technology leader must confront with urgency and clarity.

Over the past decade, chief information security officers have developed a framework that has become the gold standard for managing complex, high-stakes systems in environments of extreme uncertainty.

That framework, built on three interdependent pillars of strategy, governance, and oversight, is now the blueprint for what I call sovereign intelligence: the ability to develop and deploy AI on your own terms, aligned with your organisational values, controlled by...

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