Your CISO is talking about the control plane. Your board is asking about AI risk. Here’s the translation.
The AI control plane is the orchestration layer that sits between your business applications and the AI models they call. It manages authentication, routing, rate limiting, logging, and policy enforcement for every AI interaction across your organization.
Most enterprises don’t have one. They have a collection of direct API integrations, each with its own authentication scheme, its own logging approach, and its own absence of policy enforcement.
That’s not an AI problem. That’s a governance architecture problem with AI-shaped consequences.
Why this matters to your board: every AI interaction your organization initiates is potentially a data exposure event, a compliance event, and an audit event. Without a control plane, you have no unified visibility into any of them.
The question to ask your CISO this week: Do we have centralized logging for every AI API call made by every application in our environment? If the answer is no, you don’t have AI governance. You have AI deployment.
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