Bad actors are deploying AI to exploit vulnerabilities faster than human defenders can detect them, creating a speed-wisdom paradox: organizations need machine-speed responses but cannot afford to sacrifice human judgment on consequential decisions.

While Davos leaders debate cooperation in contested worlds, corporate Boards face an urgent reality: Advanced Persistent Threats are exploiting hardware vulnerabilities with 15-year systematic campaigns, fragmented AI policies across 50 U.S. states are creating competitive asymmetries that favor unified adversaries, and gray zone conflicts have made your company a target in ways your quarterly risk reports will never detect. For corporate Boards, fiduciary duty now extends into the gray zone, requiring shifts from reactive risk management to proactive strategic foresight that treats cybersecurity, AI governance, and geopolitical risk as inseparable dimensions of corporate strategy. The question is no longer whether your organization will be targeted, but whether your Board understands that traditional governance frameworks are insufficient when facing adaptive, intelligent adversaries in rapidly changing environments.

AI is forcing security teams to confront a long-standing blind spot: most enterprises do not truly understand their data. Veeam’s acquisition of Securiti highlights why data trust is moving to the center of security strategy as organizations try to move faster with AI.

Fortinet’s 25-year journey shows how thoughtful design choices and engineering depth built a unified platform that now connects networking, SASE, SOC, and cloud security. As hybrid deployments and AI workloads reshape enterprise architectures, that foundation is helping the company evolve toward a more solution-centric and SaaS-driven future.