Brent Gifford
30-year CIO/CISO. Two newsletters: the Digital Safety Playbook — plain-English online safety for everyday people (scams, fake stores, protecting your accounts and family) — and the CIO & CISO Executive Brief, governance for security leaders.
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CIO Executive Brief #41 — What You Are Actually Buying When You Buy an Agent
TL;DR
· A federal contract clause for AI systems took effect today. It names agentic systems in scope by their own word — and every obligation described in it governs DATA: safeguard it, report on it, export it, delete it. Nothing descr...
CISO Executive Brief #41 — An Agent Is Not a User and Not a Service Account
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· A service account’s scope is fixed when somebody designs it. An agent receives an intent, decomposes it into steps, and chooses its tools at runtime. File the second as the first and you have not authorized a list of permissions...
CIO Executive Brief #40 — Your Data Debt Is Now an Access Control Problem
TL;DR
· Data readiness and data access governance have always been two programs with two budgets and two owners. An AI agent reads across both in a single action, which means the weaker one now sets your exposure.
· Deferred data work...
CISO Executive Brief #40 — The Control That Has Never Fired
TL;DR
· A control that has produced no exceptions and a control that has never executed file the same report: nothing. Most programs read the first; the evidence only ever supported the second.
· Four independent sources landed on the...
Your AI Policy Is a Document About AI Governance
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· ISO/IEC 42001:2023 is titled “Information technology — Artificial intelligence — Management system,” and ISO classifies it as a management system standard. That last word is the entire distinction, and most AI governance program...
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30-year CIO/CISO. Two newsletters: the Digital Safety Playbook — plain-English online safety for everyday people (scams, fake stores, protecting your accounts and family) — and the CIO & CISO Executive Brief, governance for security leaders.
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