By: Jagdish Upadhyay – VP of Marketing
Every CISO is facing the same boardroom pressure.
The business wants to move faster with AI. ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and other AI tools are already becoming part of daily workflows. Productivity is the promise. Growth is the mandate.
But security teams are being asked to manage this new risk with old tools: static questionnaires, annual reviews, and point-in-time vendor assessments.
That model is breaking.
AI vendors are not traditional SaaS vendors. They can touch sensitive data, intellectual property, user behavior, business workflows, and regulated customer information. They change quickly. Their configurations drift. Their usage expands. And in many cases, security teams do not have a continuous view of what is being shared, how the tools are configured, or where shadow AI is already in use.
That is the new AI vendor risk problem.
At Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026, SAFE is introducing SAFE AI Vendor Risk Management, an AI-native approach to help enterprises continuously discover, understand, and reduce risk from AI vendors.
If you are attending Gartner SRM, here are three ways to connect with SAFE.
1. Attend the SAFE Session
Your AI Vendors Will Get Hacked. Are You Ready?
Speakers:
Saket Modi, Co-founder & CEO, SAFE Security
Gopi Ramamoorthy, General Manager of IT Risk Management, Delta Air Lines
AI adoption is moving faster than traditional risk programs can govern. The real question is no longer whether the enterprise will use AI. It is whether security teams can understand and control the risk as adoption scales.
In this session, Saket and Gopi will discuss how enterprises can move beyond static AI vendor assessments and build a continuous model for AI risk visibility, governance, and action.
You will learn how SAFE’s 5-Dimensional AI Vendor Risk Framework helps teams correlate risk across:
- Contracts
- Questionnaires and compliance evidence
- Outside-in exposure
- Configuration
- Live activity
The goal: help security and risk leaders answer the question every board is starting to ask:
What is our real risk from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and other AI vendors?
2. See SAFE AI Vendor Risk Management in Action
AI risk does not wait for annual review cycles. Your oversight model should not either.
Stop by the SAFE booth for a live demo of SAFE AI Vendor Risk Management and see how SAFE helps enterprises move from fragmented AI visibility to continuous AI risk intelligence.
Bring the names of the AI vendors your organization is using. We will show how SAFE helps teams:
- Discover AI vendor exposure
- Identify shadow AI usage
- Understand data sharing and access patterns
- Monitor configuration and posture drift
- Correlate risk across contracts, questionnaires, outside-in exposure, configurations, and live activity
- Trigger agentic workflows to investigate, escalate, and operationalize AI risk
SAFE’s Agentic Workflow Engine, powered by 100+ AI agents, helps teams scale AI oversight without adding manual overhead.
3. Join the Private CISO Dinner at Grace’s Mandarin
Some of the most useful conversations at Gartner SRM will not happen on stage. They will happen peer-to-peer, with leaders facing the same pressure to enable AI without losing control of enterprise risk.
On June 1 at 6:30 PM, SAFE is hosting an invitation-only CISO dinner at Grace’s Mandarin.
This private dinner will focus on the real questions security leaders are wrestling with:
- How do you support AI adoption without creating unmanaged exposure?
- How do you detect shadow AI before it becomes a board-level issue?
- How do you create guardrails without slowing the business down?
This is designed as a candid, off-the-record discussion with peers who are actively shaping AI risk programs.
Deploy AI with Confidence
AI vendors are becoming critical third parties. Traditional TPRM was never designed for this reality.
SAFE AI Vendor Risk Management gives enterprises continuous visibility and control across the AI vendor ecosystem, helping teams understand exposure, detect risk in real time, and operationalize AI vendor governance at scale.
If you are attending Gartner SRM 2026, meet with SAFE to see how your organization can move from static AI assessments to continuous AI risk management.
Book a 1-on-1 meeting or request your VIP invitation to the CISO Dinner.
