ChatGPT and large language models (LLM) are the early signs of how generative AI will shape many business processes. Security and risk management leaders, specifically CISOs, and their teams need to secure how their organization builds and consumes generative AI and navigate its impacts on cybersecurity. The level of hype, scale, and speed of adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) has raised end-user awareness of LLMs, leading to uncontrolled uses of LLM applications. It has also opened the floodgates to business experiments and a wave of AI-based startups promising unique value propositions from new LLM and GenAI applications. Many business and IT project teams have already launched GenAI initiatives or will start soon.
In this article, we explore how GenAI impacts CISOs and their strategies in this evolving landscape.