{"id":201339,"date":"2026-04-01T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/ai-cybersecurity-trust-is-becoming-critical-says-ey\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:25:11","slug":"ai-cybersecurity-trust-is-becoming-critical-says-ey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/ai-cybersecurity-trust-is-becoming-critical-says-ey\/","title":{"rendered":"AI cybersecurity trust is becoming critical, says EY"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI cybersecurity trust is becoming critical, says EY<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/siliconangle.com\/2026\/04\/01\/ai-cybersecurity-trust-becoming-critical-says-ey-rsac26\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-01 14:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: siliconangle.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe next cybersecurity battle will not be over whether companies use AI, but whether they can\u00a0trust what they build with it. That is why AI cybersecurity trust discussions are moving to the top of the industry\u2019s agenda.
\nNo longer a side conversation, AI instead finds itself as foundational for how modern cyber defense operates, according to Ernst & Young LLP risk professionals . The biggest questions organizations are now asking are how to deploy it at scale and how to build the trust needed to use it confidently, according to\u00a0Kapish Vanvaria (pictured, left), EY Global and Americas Risk Consulting Leader. That through-line now runs across everything from penetration testing to the security operations center.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t think you can actually skip a booth without seeing the word AI,\u201d Vanvaria told theCUBE. \u201cHonestly, I think it\u2019s a good thing. I think it\u2019s an embracing of where the future\u2019s headed from a security perspective. I spent a lot of time with our clients \u2014 yesterday, this morning, right before this \u2014 and a lot of the questions they\u2019re asking [are around] scale deployment. And two: How do they answer the mail on trust?\u201d
\nVanvaria and\u00a0Dan Mellen (right), EY Global and US Cyber Chief Technology Officer, spoke with theCUBE\u2019s\u00a0Dave Vellante and\u00a0Christophe Bertrand at the\u00a0RSAC 2026 Conference, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media\u2019s livestreaming studio. They discussed the growing need to build AI cybersecurity trust into systems from the start. (* Disclosure below.)
\nAI cybersecurity trust moves from concept to imperative
\nEY Consulting\u2019s own posture has consistently been that cyber leaders can no longer treat AI as an add-on to existing security models. The speed of deployment is making it harder for organizations to keep up as strategies and expectations evolve almost continuously, according to Mellen.
\n\u201cI think the change cycle that used to be six months long is now six weeks long,\u201d he said. \u201cI joke with my European colleagues when they go out for the month of August, they\u2019ve missed an entire cycle. You\u2019ve got to play catch-up with all of that.\u201d
\nAccording to EY Consulting\u2019s new cyber research roadmap study, 96% of respondents said AI is\u00a0now part of their cyber defense strategy. The word \u201cstrategy\u201d is significant because it can describe a wide range of implementation maturity stages, especially given that 95% of organizations say they are already deploying AI somewhere across the broader business, Mellen noted.
\n\u201cYou\u2019ve got this situation where AI is being deployed [and] cyber\u2019s trying to play catch-up,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing a little bit of the repeated bad behavior from cloud, where security\u2019s just bolting capabilities on to try to secure these [systems]. But the business is outpacing governance \u2014 it\u2019s outpacing controls; it\u2019s outpacing cyber\u2019s ability to train folks.\u201d
\nThe survey indicates that many organizations have folded AI into their strategy, but the bigger question is where that ambition is still falling short in day-to-day execution. Too often those AI cybersecurity trust strategies still lean on familiar ideas without fully translating them into operational practice, Vanvaria added.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ll have things like traceability [and] explainability, but really, that\u2019s a bolt-on method because you\u2019re taking compliance and governance and applying it to something that already exists,\u201d he said. \u201cWhere we\u2019re trying to push the market to and people to \u2014 just change their frame of reference \u2014 is think of trust in design.\u201d
\nThat position is consistent with EY Consulting\u2019s messaging that AI cybersecurity trust\u00a0has to be strongly governed, with compliance built into systems from the outset. As products move through design and development, a critical question is whether cybersecurity, regulatory, legal and compliance teams are involved early enough to help shape them, according to Vanvaria. That matters especially as companies build AI agents and other tools meant to improve customer and employee experience. Relatedly, EY Consulting has also stressed that AI should support decision-making without replacing human judgment, a posture that stresses using technology to help people move more efficiently.
\n\u201cI think there\u2019s a statement many organizations use about \u2018human in the loop.\u2019 I think the most advantageous organizations out there will be the ones who take humans and empower them with the power of technology to run faster,\u201d Vanvaria said.
\nHere\u2019s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE\u2019s and theCUBE\u2019s coverage of the RSAC 2026 Conference:<\/p>\n

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