AI Is Already in Use Across Your Organisation. Is It Governed?

Most organisations now have AI in active use across their teams, often spreading faster than policy, security testing, and monitoring can keep pace with. With many employees already using AI tools at work and many organisations still operating without a formal AI policy, the gap between adoption and governance is where the real exposure sits.

Three challenges tend to arrive together. Organisations need clear governance and policy to meet tightening regulation such as the EU AI Act and ISO 42001. The AI systems themselves, including chatbots, copilots, and agentic workflows, introduce a new category of vulnerability that calls for dedicated security testing. And shadow AI spreading across departments leaves teams without visibility into where AI is being used and what data is flowing into it.

In this session, DigitalXRAID's consultancy, testing, and SOC engineering leads walk through all three: building a defensible AI policy aligned to ISO 42001, testing AI and LLM systems against threats like prompt injection and excessive agency, and detecting shadow AI to monitor activity across your environment. It is built for organisations securing their own AI use and for partners building AI security into their offering.

Key Takeaways:

In this session, you will learn:

• Why AI already in use across your organisation makes governance an immediate priority.
• How the EU AI Act and ISO 42001 apply to organisations in Ireland, and why ISO 27001 gives you a head start.
• Why AI and LLM systems bring new vulnerabilities, from prompt injection to excessive agency, that need dedicated testing.
• How real-world incidents show that untested AI is already exposed.
• How to detect shadow AI and build the visibility to monitor AI activity across your environment.
• Why securing AI works best as a continuous programme across policy, testing, and monitoring.

Agenda: 

11:00 – Welcome and Introduction, Michael Conway, Renaissance

11:05 – AI Is in Use: Is It Governed, Tested, and Visible?, Chris Leppard, DigitalXRAID

11:45 – Q&A

12:00 – Close

A New Category of Risk Calls for a New Approach to Testing

Speakers 

Michael Conway

Managing Director, Renaissance

Chris Leppard

Head of Consultancy, DigitalXRAID

Governance, Testing, and Visibility in a Single Session

Resources

AI adoption is moving faster than most governance, testing, and monitoring programmes can keep up with, and the organisations getting ahead of it are treating AI security as a discipline in its own right. DigitalXRAID brings AI governance consultancy, CREST-certified AI and LLM security testing, and SOC-led monitoring together, helping organisations govern, secure, and see their AI use. Explore the resources below to go deeper on each part of the session.

DigitalXRAID is a UK-based cyber security specialist delivering 24/7 protection, Managed SOC/XDR, Incident Response, Penetration Testing, Cloud Security, and Compliance services. Founded in 2015, DigitalXRAID combines CREST, NCSC, and Microsoft-accredited expertise with a customer-first approach, helping organisations across public and private sectors reduce cyber risk, strengthen security posture, and build long-term resilience against evolving threats. The company is trusted by critical national infrastructure, law enforcement agencies, and leading brands to protect their most sensitive assets and maintain operational continuity. Learn more.

We work with our partners to deliver solutions and services to make your clients’ and customers’ IT environments more secure and compliant and future proof these solutions by tailoring these to suit their needs and requirements. Renaissance and our suite of security vendors and partners are ideally placed to work with organisations to help analyse current security systems, design a way to improve them, and deliver the improvements over time, starting with the most critical systems and vulnerabilities. Learn more.

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