Regulators have drawn a clear line. Cyber resilience and AI risk governance are now board-level obligations, with accountability flowing from the boardroom down. ASIC's govern-protect-detect-respond framework sets out what good looks like. APRA's supervisory review found governance arrangements across regulated industries haven't kept pace with how operationally embedded AI has become. Boards are being held to account, and so are the CISOs advising them.
The operational challenge is harder than the regulatory one. AI is running across enterprise environments in ways traditional governance frameworks were never designed to track: embedded in SaaS applications, operating as autonomous agents whose access rights accumulate faster than access reviews can run, moving across OT and IoT environments conventional security tools routinely miss. The result is a widening gap between what an organisation is actually running, what the board believes it knows, and what a regulator would find if they looked closely.
Control Tower Series is hosted by ServiceNow alongside Innovatus Media, built from a session already piloted with senior security leaders. Each session runs as a facilitated peer roundtable, split across small tables working through the same four themes before reporting back in plenary. Armis, Veza and Control Tower come up as the architecture behind the conversation, not as a sales pitch.
