India, Aug. 1 -- A cybersecurity study from last year found that nearly 60 percent of Indian companies did not have an AI governance policy or were still building one.

Artificial intelligence is very important to cybersecurity operations today. But without the right guardrails, it can risk the very same assets it is supposed to protect. As organisations rush to embed AI within security infrastructure, ethical governance is often overlooked. This introduces a raft of new, at times invisible threats, further stretching security teams. To put things in context, the number of AI-related security incidents rose by 89 percent in 2025, changing the threat landscape forever.

Inadequate governance does not merely create cracks in enterprise def...