Most security leaders I know working on AI robotics are being shown the same kind of video. A humanoid folds a shirt, sorts a bin, walks a warehouse aisle and a vendor uses the clip to move an embodied AI system from pitch to purchase order. Someone then has to sign off. Robot demos create procurement momentum before security teams receive the artifacts needed to evaluate the system as cyber-physical infrastructure.
Before the book, I prepared cloud infrastructure operating in China and the United States for cybersecurity compliance audits and for the Multi-Level Protection Scheme, China’s mandatory security-grading regime that determines whether a system is allowed to operate. That work tau...