How to Govern AI Before It Becomes Your Client's Biggest Liability

When an AI deployment goes sideways, most organizations have no idea how far the damage actually reaches. Unknown contributors pushing code into client environments. Agents operating on over-permissioned credentials. Data ending up where it was never supposed to go.

In this fireside chat, Zip Security GTM Lead John Merklinger and Kyle Carlton, Chief Operating Officer at TripleKey, break down what blast radius actually looks like from your client's perspective, and why the fundamentals of identity, access, and contributor visibility are the controls that matter most right now.

For vCISOs managing this across a book of clients, the window to get ahead of it is closing fast — and the ones who do are seeing it pay off in reduced client risk, faster remediation, stronger retention, and a practice that scales without burning them out.

What you'll take away

• How to map the real blast radius of an AI incident across a client environment, before it happens
• Why unknown and unauthorized contributors are one of the most underrated AI risk vectors vCISOs aren't talking about enough
• How identity policies built for humans are failing the moment an AI agent enters the picture
• Why the security fundamentals (visibility, least privilege, contributor hygiene) are your highest-leverage controls in an AI-era environment
• How automating AI governance workflows changes the unit economics of your practice
• What the vCISOs who've operationalized this are seeing in client trust, retention, and practice growth
• What's new and exciting for TripleKey and Zip Security