Most organisations are not failing at AI security because the controls don't exist. They are failing because nobody has stitched them together into something a board, an engineer, and an auditor can all read on the same page.
SAISF is that page. It assumes you already have a cloud security programme, an information security management system, and a growing appetite to deploy AI — and gives you the missing connective tissue between them.
It is opinionated by design. Each domain prescribes the questions to ask, the controls to expect, and the maturity signals to look for. It is not a replacement for the underlying standards; it is a practitioner's lens on top of them.
Establish who decides, who approves, and who is answerable when AI behaves unexpectedly. Without this layer, every other domain is theatre.
You cannot secure what you cannot see. Most organisations underestimate their AI footprint by a factor of five — sanctioned tools are the tip; shadow Copilots, browser extensions, and embedded vendor features are the iceberg.
The defining security question of the AI era: where does sensitive data go when an employee, an agent, or a retrieval pipeline touches a model — and can you prove it didn't leak, leak back, or leak across tenants?
Bring AI workloads under the same architectural rigour as the rest of your cloud estate — without pretending an LLM is just another microservice. Identity, secrets, network egress, and model supply chain need AI-aware controls.
AI introduces incident classes your SOC has never seen — silent prompt injection, model exfiltration, deepfake-driven fraud. New playbooks, new telemetry, new tabletop muscle memory.
Treat models like critical software. Red-team them, version them, monitor them in production, and produce evidence that an auditor — or a regulator — can read without translation.
Every domain is assessed on the same five-step ladder. Most enterprises today sit between Level 1 and Level 2 across most domains — and don't realise it.
The framework is the method. The engagements are how we apply it.