The AI Security Leadership Checklist
50 questions every CISO, CTO, and CIO should be able to answer about their organization's AI security posture.
This checklist is designed for leadership conversations, board reporting, and audit preparation — not for engineers. Each item should be answerable by your AI governance lead without digging through technical documentation.
Use this checklist in three ways: as a gap analysis to find what you don't know, as a board preparation tool to demonstrate AI governance maturity, and as a recurring quarterly review to track progress over time. Your progress is saved automatically in this browser.
Complete the assessment items below to calculate your organization's Agentic AI security maturity score.
0 of 51 controls verified
Scoring Guide for Leadership Conversations
- 40–50 items checked: Strong AI security posture. Maintain cadence and look ahead to emerging capabilities (multi-agent systems, computer use).
- 25–39 items checked: Developing posture. Prioritize the unchecked items by risk — agent permissions and data protection first.
- 10–24 items checked: Early stage. Start with inventory and visibility — you cannot govern what you cannot see.
- Under 10 items checked: Significant gaps exist. Treat AI security as a priority initiative, not a background task.
No organization checks all 50 immediately. The value is in knowing your gaps — and having a plan to close them.
A note on "we have a policy for that": Policies that aren't technically enforced are not controls. Throughout this checklist, distinguish between "we have written a policy" and "we have verified the policy is being followed." The former provides legal cover; the latter provides security.