AI, Platforms and Cloud Technologies

Currency of Knowledge: Opportunity, Dependency and Risk

AI powered systems and cloud platforms provide organisations with significant opportunities for innovation, efficiency, scalability and data driven decision making. However, greater reliance on these technologies also introduces new security dependencies, vulnerabilities and responsibilities.

For cloud services, organisations need to understand areas including data protection, resilience, governance, operational security, supply chain security, identity and authentication, secure administration and monitoring. The NCSC’s Cloud Security Principles provide a useful framework for evaluating these responsibilities.

Additional reading for AI risk management