Why treat AI and cybersecurity as one problem?

Because each one quietly changes the other. Every AI tool your team adopts moves data somewhere new, and every security gap you carry gets amplified by AI-assisted attackers. Firms that advise on only one half never see the risk the two halves create together.

The market is organised wrong for this. AI advice is sold by AI consultancies. Security advice is sold by security firms. Each writes a report about its own half, and the interaction between them — the place the real exposure now sits — belongs to nobody.

What the interaction looks like

• A sales team adopts an AI notetaker. Nobody asks where the recordings live, or that they now contain every customer's pricing.
• Identity controls that were weak but survivable become urgent, because AI-assisted phishing is better at pretending to be your CFO than any human attacker was.
• An AI use case that would genuinely pay is shelved out of vague fear, because nobody in the room could say what the actual risk was.

That last one matters as much as the first two. Reading both halves together is not just how you avoid the bad outcome. It is how you get the confidence to move fast on the good one. Both halves in one read: the Exposure & Opportunity Review.