FEATURE : 2025 CIOS ’ PRIORITY
BUSINESSES WILL CRITICALLY HAVE TO CONSIDER HOW TO ADOPT RESPONSIBLE AI DEPLOYMENTS .
problems do I have ?” Instead of leveraging AI as a “ co-pilot ” to assist , IT teams might isolate it , focusing on its novelty rather than its practical applications for business goals . This oversight can lead to wasted resources on initiatives that don ’ t align with organizational needs and discourage the adoption and efficiency of process automation .
Fostering Islands of Automation : As organizations advance in their modernization and digitization journeys , they often find their existing automation platforms inadequate for modern applications like SaaS and cloud-native solutions , leading them to purchase new automation solutions without retiring the old ones . Over time , this results in a patchwork of disparate systems , driving up labor costs as employees require training on multiple tools and increasing error rates due to the lack of seamless connections among shared business processes . Ultimately , this prevents organizations from adopting a comprehensive platform capable of building automation fabrics and managing legacy , current and emerging systems .
Brad Jones , CISO and VP of Information Security , Snowflake .
Generative AI takes centre stage as businesses ’ personal security experts .
While there is a lot of talk about the potential security risks introduced through generative AI , and for good reason , there are real and beneficial applications already happening today that people neglect to mention . As AI tools become more versatile and more accurate , security assistants will become a significant part of the SOC , easing the perennial manpower shortage . The benefit of AI will be to summarise incidents at a higher level – rather than an alert that requires analysts to go through all the logs to connect the dots , they ’ ll get a high-level summary that makes sense to a human , and is actionable .
Of course , we must keep in mind that these opportunities are within a very tight context and scope . We must ensure that these AI tools are trained on an organisation ’ s policies , standards , and certifications . When done so appropriately , they can be highly effective in helping security teams with routine tasks . If organisations haven ’ t taken
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