Sprinto CEO Warns Against AI Compliance Debt

Girish Redekar, CEO of Sprinto, warns that organizations are accumulating compliance debt and trust debt by adopting AI tools faster than they can implement governance. He argues that fragmented decision-making across legal, IT, and product teams creates hidden liabilities that typically only surface during board inquiries or regulatory audits.

Redekar compares the current AI trend to early cloud adoption, noting that shadow IT previously forced companies to retrofit controls at a high cost. He asserts that AI governance must be a continuous process because model updates and changes in data access can shift a system's risk profile over time.

To mitigate these long-term costs, Redekar identifies the Chief Information Security Officer as the ideal coordinator to integrate governance directly into the deployment pipeline.