It’s happened to Dale Wesdorp, chief revenue officer at digital product builder Miyagami, and likely plenty of IT professionals these days: an employee arrives with an app built by a large language model (LLM), and they want to use it in their current workflow.

Wesdorp’s clients have vibe-coded up mobile apps, websites, games, and even niche customer relationship management (CRM) systems.

The app may work, but that doesn’t mean IT pros should throw it into production—there may be security concerns, or the code might not play well with the existing tech stack.

We spoke with software developers about what they do with employees’ LLM output to make sure everyone stays safe and productive.

Check the checklist.—BH

You gotta be quicker than that—especially when it comes to evaluating and approving new internal AI tools.

The times are a-changing for cybersecurity professionals, according to 1Password CIO and CISO Jacob DePriest. Cybersecurity professionals have always been tasked with balancing speed and risk, he said. But now AI is increasing the risk of not being fast enough.

“Threat actors are using AI to do automated attacks,” DePriest said during an interview at RSAC. “If we as security professionals don’t adopt and integrate that into our capabilities to defend, then we’re starting to get out of balance with the threat actors.”

It’s a valid assessment of the industry’s current state, according to Akshay Bhargava, VP of product management for AI software and platform at Cisco. For the first time, he said, the risk of not adopting a piece of technology is higher than the risks associated with the technology itself.

“If you don’t adopt AI, you run the risk of falling behind, competitively, in terms of your potential, in terms of your learning curve, and on so many dimensions,” Bhargava said.

But don’t forget governance.—BM

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Would you like AI with that?

A fast food giant took on a new CIO and a food distributor moved on from a CTO, leading the C-suite revolving door for April.

Mustafa Husain is the new McDonald’s CIO

McDonald’s announced Mustafa Husain’s hiring as the company’s new CIO April 21. Husain will work on AI solutions, helping to make the technology part of how the fast food restaurant company operates.

Husain, who has been with the company in a variety of tech leadership roles for five-and-a-half years, takes over from outgoing CIO Valerie Ashbaugh. Prior to his time at McDonald’s, Husain spent more than eight years at Amazon, capping his time at the retailer as senior manager of product management.

See who else has a new job.—EH