For CISOs and Security Executives
AI strategy and training for the people who have to answer for it
Security leaders are accountable for AI risk before their organizations have finished deploying AI. GTK Cyber gives you the strategic fluency to govern it: risk frameworks, vendor evaluation, and an AI-ready security organization. Taught by practitioners who red-team AI systems, not full-time trainers.
The risk lands on your desk before the strategy is written
Most security leaders are managing the wrong version of AI risk: fixating on dramatic nation-state scenarios while shadow AI, vendor tools with embedded models, and AI features in security products already sit inside the organization. The exposure is here now, and nobody owns the intersection of security, legal, and the business units deploying AI.
Closing that gap does not take a technical deep-dive. It takes decision-level fluency: enough understanding of AI to govern it, evaluate it, and direct your team, without having to take a vendor's word for any of it. That is what this track is built to give you.
What we help security leaders do
Four decisions every security executive now owns.
Govern AI adoption
Stand up a governance program mapped to NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, and ISO 42001, with a cross-functional structure that can actually gate new deployments.
Assess the risk already in the building
Inventory shadow AI, vendor tools with embedded AI, and developer tooling. Most of the exposure is already deployed, not hypothetical.
Evaluate AI security vendors
Ask the questions that separate real capability from marketing: training data, false-positive rates, explainability, and resilience to prompt injection.
Build an AI-ready organization
Give your team the hands-on skills to use, defend, and red-team AI, and give leadership the fluency to direct that work with confidence.
Executive training
Built for decision-makers. No technical prerequisites. Available on-site, virtual, or as a private leadership briefing.
A Cyber Executive's Guide for Artificial Intelligence
Strategic AI training for CISOs and security executives: risk and governance frameworks, AI-powered threats, vendor evaluation, and building an AI-ready program.
Data Science for Managers
Learn to identify problems solvable through data science, hire and manage data science teams, and build the infrastructure that supports analytics initiatives.
Strategies for security leaders
The moves that separate a real AI risk posture from a policy binder.
Start with an AI asset inventory, not a policy document.
You cannot govern what you cannot see. Before writing policy, inventory the AI already in your environment: procurement records, vendor tools with new AI features, and developer tooling like Copilot and internal LLM APIs. Most organizations are surprised by the third category.
AI risk blind spots CISOs miss →Treat shadow AI as a data-classification problem, not an awareness one.
Employees will use consumer LLMs for work. The question is what data they are allowed to put in them. Extend existing data classification and DLP controls rather than relying on training reminders.
AI governance training for executives →Pick a governance framework and apply it, then treat compliance as an overlay.
Use NIST AI RMF as the operational framework and the EU AI Act as a compliance overlay if you have EU exposure. Neither tells you your specific risk, but both get the question in front of the right stakeholders.
A Cyber Executive's Guide for AI →Run a real proof of concept before any AI security purchase.
Test the vendor on your data with success criteria defined in advance, and demand access to raw detection output. If a vendor will not run a POC on your environment, that is the answer.
AI security vendor evaluation checklist →Reading for security leaders
The articles CISOs actually forward to their teams. Prefer a checklist? Grab the free executive resources.
AI Risk Blind Spots CISOs Miss in 2025
Shadow AI, model supply chain attacks, and prompt injection top the list. See the AI risk gaps most security executives overlook and what to prioritize first.
AI Governance Training for Security Executives: What to Learn
AI governance training for cybersecurity executives covers the frameworks, artifacts, and technical literacy needed to gate AI deployments, not just sign policies.
AI Security Vendor Evaluation: SOC Team Checklist
Technical questions to ask AI security vendors before you buy. Test detection claims, review model architectures, and expose gaps vendors hide in demos.
How to Run a POC for an AI Security Vendor
The demo always works. Here is how to run a proof of concept for an AI security vendor on your own data, with a labeled test set, real metrics, and exit criteria set in advance.
Like what you see? Here is where to go next
Four ways to work with GTK Cyber, whether you want training, an outside opinion, or just to stay current.
Executive Course
A Cyber Executive's Guide for AI
One day, no technical prerequisites. Governance, AI-powered threats, and vendor evaluation for security leaders.
Consulting
AI and cybersecurity consulting
AI strategy, red-team engagements, ML review, and governance frameworks, delivered by the same practitioners who teach.
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