Forrester Says AI Security Costs Must Be A Named Budget Line Item

The Common Question

How should CISOs handle AI security costs?

The Lesson in This Case

CISOs who absorb AI security costs inside existing budgets will face a losing trade-off: cut controls elsewhere or let ungoverned AI consumption grow unchecked. Boards and executives are approving AI investments without pricing in the security, governance, and workforce development required to sustain them – leaving CISOs to fund those gaps through program reductions. Senior leaders should demand that AI security appear as a line item in the enterprise AI budget, not as a silent tax on the security org.

Originally reported by Forrester Research Blogs. Read the full story here.