What happens when the technology designed to make us more productive quietly becomes one of the biggest security risks inside the enterprise? In this episode of The Business of Cybersecurity, I sit down with Leslie Nielsen, CISO at Mimecast, to discuss the growing tension between AI adoption and cybersecurity, and why many organizations may be exposing sensitive information faster than they realize.

As businesses race to deploy generative AI, AI agents, and Model Context Protocol integrations, Leslie explains why AI models themselves are becoming valuable targets. When organizations pool large volumes of sensitive data into centralized AI systems, they create what he describes as a corporate brain, one that can quickly become attractive to attackers if the right controls are not in place.

We explore the rise of shadow AI, where employ ...