TECHNOLOGY. SECURITY. AI. STRATEGY.
Responsible Artificial Intelligence and Strategic Risk Management
Turning Technology, Security & AI Risk Into Confident Business Decisions.
DEW Diligence delivers Information Technology, Information Security, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence strategies that strengthen enterprise risk management and support business growth. We help leaders navigate technology transformation, cybersecurity, and emerging AI risk with greater clarity — aligning technology and security investments with business priorities to reduce exposure, strengthen resilience, improve decision-making, and create sustainable value.
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & SECURITY
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IT Risk Management
IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026 found that AI-related breaches increased by 61% year over year — and 92% of organizations experiencing one lacked proper AI access controls. Meanwhile, 68% of breached organizations had no established AI governance policy.
DEW Diligence helps organizations close these access-control and governance gaps through integrated CIO, CISO, and CTO leadership — aligning information ownership, technology risk, operational resilience, and responsible innovation with clear business priorities and accountability.
RESPONSIBLE AI GOVERNANCE
AI Governance
AI Security
AI Governance: Structure, policy, and accountability that stand up to scrutiny.
Most organizations put AI into production faster than governance can mature. DEW Diligence builds the operating model behind responsible AI adoption.
AI Security: Protection for AI systems, models, data, and the ecosystems around them.
AI changes the attack surface in ways traditional security programs were not designed to address. We help close those gaps across model and application security, adversarial threats, data exposure, identity and access, third-party dependencies, and AI supply-chain risk.
Why This Matters
IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026 found that more than 20% of breached organizations experienced an attack targeting AI models or applications — and 92% of those organizations lacked proper AI access controls. Across surveyed organizations, only 40% reported using access controls for AI models and data.
AI-enabled attacks now account for one in four malicious breaches — a 56% year-over-year increase — and cost organizations an average of $6 million per breach, roughly $1 million more than the $4.99 million global breach average.
THE COST OF INACTION
Costs of a Data Breach
$4.99M
2026 Global Average Per Breach
$11.5M
2026 US Average Per Breach
$6.04M
2026 Average Cost of an AI-Driven Malicious Breach
$1.93M
Average Savings From Security AI & Automation
Sources: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026 - The AI tipping point
Here’s what the numbers tell us:
Clear signal: AI adoption is accelerating faster than governance and security controls. 68% of breached organizations lacked established AI governance policies, while 92% of organizations experiencing an AI-related breach lacked proper AI access controls. AI without governance isn't a strategy. It's unmanaged enterprise risk.
The economics work both ways. AI-driven malicious breaches averaged $6.04 million—approximately $1 million more than non-AI-driven malicious breaches. Yet organizations extensively using AI and automation in security reduced average breach costs by $1.93 million and shortened identification and containment by 65 days.
The question isn't whether organizations can afford responsible AI governance and cybersecurity. The question is whether they can afford to operate without them.
The Age of Artificial Intelligence