Why CISOs need to be more flexible in the AI era
From Risky Business Features by Risky Business Media
April 3, 2026 · 19 min
About this episode
James Wilson discusses the challenges CISOs face in adapting to the rapid changes brought by AI with guest Brad Arkin.
In this episode, James Wilson chats with Brad Arkin (former CISO of Adobe, Cisco and Salesforce) to talk about the mounting pressure that CISOs are under in the AI era. Attackers are operating at unprecedented scale, and internal users are adopting AI faster than security teams can keep up. This requires CISOs to bend on things that would have otherwise been a hard-no in the past, and revisit some fundamental controls that might have seemed too difficult previously.
People in this episode
Host: James Wilson
Guest: Brad Arkin
Topics covered
- CISO
- AI
- cybersecurity
- flexibility
- internal users
- attackers
Keywords
- CISO
- AI era
- cybersecurity
- attackers
- flexibility
- security teams
- controls
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Adobe, Cisco, Salesforce
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