AI Governance in Regulated Industries: Where to Start
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Most organizations know AI governance matters but few know where to begin. Here are the first three questions every CISO should answer before scaling AI.
AI Is Moving Fast.
Your Security Program Needs to Keep Up.
Hands-on AI security and governance consulting for healthcare, finance, and other regulated industries — from a practitioner who has done both.
Industries served
- Healthcare
- Financial Services
- Retail
- Technology
Led by Trent Leis — CISSP · CCSP · CPA
The problems CISOs bring to us
AI adoption is outrunning your governance
Business units deploy AI tools faster than your team can evaluate them. The risk exposure grows daily.
Regulators are asking questions you can't answer yet
The SEC, OCR, OCC, and EU AI Act are creating accountability structures most security programs weren't built for.
Shadow AI is already in your organization
Employees are using consumer AI tools with your data. You need an inventory before you can manage the risk.
How we work together
Three focused engagements — each with a defined outcome.
AI Security & Governance Assessment
CISOs and compliance officers at regulated mid-market organizations who need a defensible, framework-aligned view of their AI risk posture.
A board-ready report mapping your current-state AI risks to a prioritized remediation roadmap — in 2–3 weeks.
Learn moreSecure AI Transformation Roadmap
Transformation leaders and CISOs preparing to scale AI across the enterprise and needing a security architecture that can grow with adoption.
A 12-month security roadmap that lets your AI program move fast without creating unmanageable technical debt or regulatory exposure.
Learn moreFractional AI Security Advisor
Organizations that need ongoing AI security expertise without the overhead of a full-time hire — typically mid-market firms with active AI programs.
Embedded AI security judgment, on-call for decisions that matter, without the 9-month hiring cycle.
Learn moreLed by a practitioner, not a presenter
Most AI security advice comes from people who have studied the problem. Salient Security Solutions is led by Trent Leis, a practitioner who has built an enterprise AI security and governance program at a regulated healthcare organization and shipped AI into production there — including a retrieval-augmented internal assistant and an AI-assisted system that recovered more than $10M in annual revenue.
That combination — deep security architecture experience plus hands-on AI implementation — is what makes the advice actionable for CISOs who need to move fast without creating new risk.
Ready to get ahead of your AI risk?
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