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As enterprises race to deploy AI agents across their operations, they are inadvertently creating a new class of security vulnerability that conventional cybersecurity frameworks were not designed to address. The hidden cost of AI deployment is not just compute and talent — it is an expanded attack surface that grows with every agent you add.

Gartner projects that more than 40 per cent of agentic AI enterprise deployments will be cancelled by the end of 2027 — not because the technology does not work, but because the organisations deploying it are not ready. The gap between deployment speed and governance maturity is becoming the defining risk of the AI era.

The Chief Data Officer has gone from a niche experiment to a boardroom essential in less than a decade. As AI reshapes how companies operate, the CDO role has become the connective tissue between data infrastructure and business strategy — and most organisations are still getting it wrong.

Only 38% of companies describe themselves as data-driven, despite billions spent on analytics. Here’s why most organisations are still getting it wrong — and what the ones succeeding are doing differently.