The AI Risks CISOs Aren’t Talking About Enough
May 28, 2026 – Published on Forbes
The demands on today’s CISOs are intensifying from every direction. Rapid advances in AI, newly discovered and exploited vulnerabilities, escalating geopolitical conflicts, aggressive enterprise tech adoption and the looming arrival of quantum computing are all reshaping the threat landscape in real time.
Gary Brickhouse, CISO of cybersecurity firm GuidePoint Security, sees and hears about it all. I spoke with him about today’s real threat landscape—and what CIOs and CISOs aren’t paying attention to, but should be.
What are some of the biggest concerns that CISOs are coming to you about?
Brickhouse: There’s a couple big categories. One is visibility. We’re struggling really hard with keeping our arms around what is out there. If you go back to agentic AI, think about the rights of what those agents can do. There’s so much movement around AI implementation, I’m not sure we’re seeing all of it.
That pivots into this growing attack surface area. I don’t know what I don’t know. Looking at AI development efforts, you think about vibe coding or citizen-development-type activity. We’re trying really hard—I can speak from my own organization’s perspective—to put the right guardrails in place. We’re trying to put the right controls within our development pipeline to make sure bad stuff isn’t happening. But again, it’s just more attack surface that’s out there.
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