AI cybersecurity trust is becoming more important, says EY – SiliconANGLE

The next cybersecurity battle won’t be over whether companies use AI, but whether they can trust what they build with it. That’s why discussions of AI cybersecurity trust are rising to the top of the industry agenda.

No longer a sideshow, AI is finding itself at the core of modern cyber security, according to risk experts at Ernst & Young LLP. The biggest questions organizations are asking right now are how to scale it and how to build the trust needed to use it confidently, according to Kapish Vanvaria (pictured, left), Leader of EY Global and Americas Risk Consulting. This line now covers everything from penetration testing to security operations center.

“I don’t think you can jump into a booth without seeing the word AI,” Vanvaria told CUBE. “Honestly, I think it’s a good thing. I think it’s acknowledging where the future is going from a security perspective. I’ve spent a lot of time with our customers — yesterday, this morning, earlier today — and a lot of the questions they’re asking. [are around] scale supply. And two: How do they answer letters with trust?”

Vanvaria and Dan Mellen (right), EY Global and US Cyber ​​Chief Technology Officer, spoke to theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Christophe Bertrand to RSAC Conference 2026during a special broadcast at theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the growing need to build AI cybersecurity trust into systems from the ground up. (*Advertisement below.)

AI cybersecurity trust is moving from concept to reality

His position at EY Consulting has been that cyber leaders can no longer treat AI as a supplement to existing security models. The speed of deployment makes it difficult for organizations to stay current as policies and expectations change almost constantly, according to Mellen.

He said: “I think the change cycle that used to take six months is now six weeks long. “I joke with my colleagues in Europe when they come out in August, they are overdue.

According to EY Consulting’s a new cyber road map study96% of respondents said AI is it is now part of their cyber security strategy. The word “strategy” is important because it can describe many stages of implementation growth, especially since 95% of organizations say they are already deploying AI somewhere across the broader enterprise, Mellen noted.

“You have this situation where AI is used [and] “Cyber ​​is trying to play,” he said. “We’re seeing a lot of bad behavior coming out of the cloud, where security is still trying to protect these. [systems]. But business is more than government – it is more than control; it is beyond cyber’s ability to train people. ”

Research shows that many organizations have incorporated AI into their strategy, but the big question is how that ambition is breaking down into day-to-day operations. Too often those AI cybersecurity strategies rely on conventional ideas without fully translating them into practical applications, Vanvaria added.

“We will have things like traceability [and] explainable, but really, it’s a bolt-on approach because it takes governance and applies it to something that already exists,” he said: “Where we’re trying to push the market and people to – change their frame of reference – is to think about trusting the design.”

This position is consistent with EY Consulting’s message that AI cybersecurity trusts it must be ruled by forcewith consistency built into the systems from the start. As products move through design and development, the key question is whether cybersecurity, regulatory, legal and compliance teams are involved early enough to help create them, according to Vanvaria. It’s especially important as companies build AI agents and other tools aimed at improving the customer and employee experience. Similarly, EY Consulting also emphasized that AI should support decision-making without replacing human judgment, a situation that emphasizes using technology to help people navigate better.

I think there’s a saying that a lot of organizations use about ‘the person in the loop.’ I think the best organizations will be the ones that take people and empower them with the power of technology to run faster,” said Vanvaria.

Here is the full video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s content RSAC Conference 2026:

(*Disclosure: EY sponsored this feature of theCUBE. Neither EY nor other sponsors have editorial control over the content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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