Cybersecurity Where You Are (audio)
Episode 198: AI Privacy from a Risk-Based Perspective
29 July 2026 30:49 Center for Internet Security
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About this episode
In episode 198 of Cybersecurity Where You Are, Sean Atkinson discusses artificial intelligence (AI) and privacy from a risk-based cybersecurity perspective. Together, he explores how organizations and individuals can assess AI risk, apply governance frameworks, evaluate third-party AI services, and balance innovation with due diligence.
Here are some highlights from our episode:
- 00:41. Framing the conversation around AI, privacy, and risk-based controls
- 02:22. Due diligence and ethical considerations around AI products and services
- 03:14. Data minimization and transparency as foundations for AI privacy
- 04:46. Privacy impact assessments as a way to understand AI data collection and use
- 05:42. AI governance and the tension between implementation velocity and risk management
- 10:08. The use of existing data flows and controls in AI assessments
- 11:57. Algorithmic transparency and the challenge of understanding AI decision making
- 13:47. Standards, frameworks, and data sovereignty in AI privacy governance
- 15:12. Encryption, anonymization, tokenization, and federated learning as privacy safeguards
- 16:40. The need to shift stakeholder input left in AI development and deployment lifecycles
- 19:13. Building literacy around security, data management, privacy, and AI risk
- 23:40. The value of cross-functional and written assessment criteria for AI risk
- 26:21. A call to action for keeping pace with AI privacy and and innovation risk
Resources
- CIS Controls v8.1.2 AI Security Guidance Workbook
- Episode 105: Context in Cyber Risk Quantification
- Service Provider Management Policy Template for CIS Control 15
- EU AI Act: first regulation on artificial intelligence
- AI Risk Management Framework
- IAPP AI Governance Center
- Episode 120: How Contextual Awareness Drives AI Governance
- Secure by Design v1.1 A Guide to Assessing Software Security Practices
- Reasonable Cybersecurity
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