AI Security Readiness Review
Understand how securely your organisation is adopting AI – and what you need to do before risk outpaces opportunity
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how organisations operate and how attackers target them. The productivity gains, automation capabilities, and competitive advantages AI offers are real. So are the risks that come with adopting it without a clear security framework.
Organisations are deploying AI tools at pace. Employees are using large language models, generative AI platforms, and AI-enabled SaaS applications, often without IT or security oversight, data governance controls, and little or no assessment of what those tools are doing with sensitive information. At the same time, attackers are using AI to accelerate phishing, automate reconnaissance, and craft more convincing social engineering attacks at scale.
Cyberfort’s AI Security Readiness Review gives your organisation a structured assessment of where AI is being used across your estate, what risks that usage is introducing, and what controls are needed to govern it responsibly. We assess both dimensions, the security of your AI adoption and your preparedness for AI-enabled threats, and deliver a clear, prioritised roadmap for closing the gaps.
What are the main challenges businesses are facing with AI adoption?
There is no standard for what “good” AI adoption looks like from a security standpoint. Unlike endpoint security or patch management, AI security is a new discipline with no widely adopted baseline. Organisations do not know what they should be doing and without specialist expertise, they cannot find out quickly. From our experience at Cyberfort we see many organisations facing similar challenges including:
Shadow AI adoption across the organisation
Employees are using AI tools which are unapproved, unmonitored, and ungoverned, to handle tasks that involve sensitive data, customer information, and confidential business content. Most organisations have no complete picture of where these tools are being used and for what purpose.
Data leakage through AI platforms
Large language models and generative AI tools trained or prompted with organisational data can expose confidential information in ways that are difficult to detect and harder to remediate.
No AI governance framework in place
Many organisations are adopting AI without the policies, controls, or accountability structures needed to manage it safely, leaving them exposed when a regulator, auditor, or insurer asks for evidence of oversight.
AI-enabled threats outpacing existing defences
Phishing emails generated by AI are indistinguishable from legitimate communications. Voice cloning, automated vulnerability discovery, and AI-assisted social engineering are all in active use by threat actors.
Board and leadership uncertainty about AI risk
Senior leaders understand that AI carries risk but often lack the structured view needed to make informed governance decisions, set appropriate investment priorities, or respond confidently to stakeholder questions.
Business and Technology outcomes from this service
Organisations that complete Cyberfort’s AI Security Readiness Review leave with:
A complete picture of AI use across your estate. A structured discovery of where AI tools are in use including those that are approved and unapproved, across your organisation, with a risk rating for each use case based on data sensitivity and control maturity.
An AI risk register ready for board and regulatory use. A structured risk register covering AI-specific threats, governance gaps, and data handling risks, mapped to EU AI Act obligations, NCSC guidance, and ISO 42001 where relevant.
A governance framework your organisation can implement. Practical, proportionate policies and controls for AI adoption covering approved tool lists, data handling rules, employee guidance, and accountability structures that reflect how your business actually works.
Preparedness for AI-enabled threats. An assessment of your current controls against AI-assisted phishing, deepfake attacks, automated reconnaissance, and AI-augmented malware – with targeted recommendations to close gaps.
A roadmap the board can act on. A prioritised remediation plan with clear owners, timescales, and investment requirements, giving your leadership team a credible, evidenced path from current state to governed, secure AI adoption.
Who is this service for
The AI Security Readiness Review is for organisations that are serious about using AI to their advantage and serious about doing so without creating risks they cannot manage. It is designed for:
- Organisations actively adopting AI tools across their business. If AI is already in use, whether formally approved or not and understanding the risk that adoption is introducing is an urgent priority, not a future consideration.
- Regulated entities facing EU AI Act or DORA obligations. Organisations subject to EU regulation need to understand how their AI use maps to risk tiers, what obligations apply, and what evidence of compliance looks like.
- Boards and senior leadership teams seeking a governed AI strategy. This service gives leadership the structured view they need to govern AI adoption responsibly – covering risk, regulation, and opportunity in a single, clear output.
- Security teams responding to AI-enabled threat increases. If your threat landscape has changed, including more convincing phishing, faster attacks, harder-to-detect social engineering, this review assesses whether your current controls are keeping pace.
- Organisations preparing for cyber insurance renewal or audit. Insurers and auditors are beginning to ask specific questions about AI governance. This service puts the evidence in place before those questions arrive.
AI is already changing your risk profile – Find out how
Whether your organisation is leading on AI adoption or still forming a strategy, the risks are already present. Cyberfort’s AI Security Readiness Review gives you the clear, expert-led assessment your leadership needs to act with confidence.
Book your AI Security Readiness Review by emailing us at [email protected] and one of our experts will be in touch. They will work with you to understand your exposure, govern your adoption, and stay ahead of the risks, before they get ahead of you.
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