AI Security and Risk Management For Business Leaders

In this Bigger Brains course, you’ll learn why AI security is a critical component of overall business risk management and why it’s a shared responsibility across your organization. You’ll explore the potential risks associated with adopting AI tools, including data exposure, compliance challenges, and the dangers of shadow IT, and you’ll see how these risks can impact your business. You’ll also learn why safe experimentation with AI tools is essential to innovation without compromising control.

You’ll see how Microsoft 365 tools can help protect your organization while enabling productivity, and you’ll explore practical strategies for responding to risks as they arise. You’ll also learn how to work more effectively with your IT department—understanding their role, asking the right questions about app security, and using insights from monitoring and shadow IT activity to guide smarter decisions. By the end of the course, you’ll be equipped with clear next steps to support secure AI adoption and collaborate confidently with IT leaders to implement AI solutions that drive business value.

Topics covered include:

• Explain why security involves everyone at your company
• List potential risks to your company in using AI
• Identify the purpose of AI security
• Define shadow IT and explain why it’s dangerous
• Discuss why it’s important to experiment with AI tools safely
• List risks and issues that arise from shadow IT
• Explain the importance of safely adopting AI
• List Microsoft tools that are available to help protect your business
• Discuss ways to respond to risks
• Explain how to use shadow IT and monitoring information to help your teams grow
• Discuss the role of IT in giving team members guidance and tools
• Identify questions to discuss with your IT department about app security
• List next steps to begin implementing AI security

Enjoy award winning HD content in the “Uniquely Engaging”TM Bigger Brains Teacher-Learner style! Taught by top subject matter experts, Bigger Brains courses are professionally designed around key learning objectives and include captions and transcripts, downloadable handouts, and optional LinkedIn digital badges on course completion.