Lightning Talk: AI Isn’t the Risk — We Are

AI Isn’t the Risk. We Are, and That’s Where Security Must Change 🎙️ Teri Green, Vice President of Technology, Elevate Energy 📍 Presented at SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit 2026 Security teams keep calling AI “high risk,” but that label isn’t a finding, it’s a feeling. The real failure mode in AI incidents isn’t the model; it’s the human trust decision around it. As GenAI features move from chat to connected workflows, touching sensitive data, triggering actions, retaining prompts and outputs, and relying on unverified sources, traditional controls alone don’t answer the question that matters most: what happens when AI is confidently wrong? In this lightning talk, Teri Green introduces T.E.S.T.™ (Touch, Execute, Store, Trust), a practical standard for reviewing AI systems without slowing innovation. Attendees will leave with a repeatable set of questions to threat model the workflow (not the model), make risk visible early, and define what “secure enough to ship” means. Explore upcoming SANS Summits to continue learning from leading voices in cybersecurity: https://go.sans.org/summits