AI adoption is no longer limited to controlled technology programs. Employees, departments, vendors, applications, and embedded software features are introducing AI throughout the organization—often faster than governance, security, procurement, legal, and risk teams can respond. 1600 Cyber helps organizations establish the policies, ownership, decision rights, controls, and oversight needed to use AI responsibly while continuing to innovate.
Organizations may be using public generative AI, enterprise copilots, embedded AI features, internally developed models, autonomous agents, and third-party AI services at the same time.
The answer is not to stop AI adoption. It is to create clear, usable guardrails that allow the organization to move forward responsibly.
Create an inventory of AI systems, tools, models, agents, vendors, data use, and organizational ownership.
Define who approves AI, who owns the risk, who monitors performance, and who can suspend or retire a system.
Apply oversight proportionate to the purpose, impact, autonomy, data sensitivity, and potential consequences of each AI use case.
Give employees and delivery teams understandable rules for using AI safely and appropriately.
Maintain the policies, assessments, approvals, documentation, monitoring, and decisions required by leadership, customers, auditors, and regulators.
Agentic AI requires stronger governance because an agent may do more than generate content. It may access systems, retrieve sensitive information, call APIs, communicate with other agents, initiate workflows, or take actions on behalf of a user or organization.
1600 Cyber helps define where agent authority begins, where human approval is required, what data may be used, which limits apply, how activity is reviewed, and who remains accountable when an agent produces an unsafe or incorrect outcome.
Identify current AI use, emerging projects, stakeholders, vendors, data flows, obligations, and immediate risks.
Evaluate AI use cases according to purpose, impact, autonomy, data sensitivity, affected users, and applicable requirements.
Establish principles, policies, ownership, controls, approval pathways, human oversight, and reporting.
Embed governance into procurement, solution development, cybersecurity, legal review, vendor management, and business operations.
Track AI changes, incidents, exceptions, performance, regulatory developments, and emerging risks.
AI governance should not end with a policy document.
1600 Cyber combines cybersecurity, AI implementation, governance, risk, digital transformation, and operational experience. We create controls that executives can defend, technical teams can implement, and employees can realistically follow.
We help you govern AI without governing innovation out of the organization.