William leads AI Security at Philip Morris International (PMI), driving how AI systems are secured across the enterprise, and how information security uses AI to transform their operating model. His focus: make sure PMI can adopt AI at pace without increasing risk. Security should enable scale, not slow it down. Over the past year, he has built and operationalised PMI's AI security strategy, responding to the evolving threat landscape and enterprise AI roadmap by deploying enforceable controls and processes that apply across the full AI lifecycle at machine speed. This includes security architectures, agentic threat modelling approaches, and information security processes designed specifically for agentic and AI-driven workflows.
PMI's AI Factory turns AI experiments, pilots, and proofs of concept into reusable enterprise components deployed as microservices or AI agents. In this case study, Alessandro Sardo, PMI's Director of Security Architecture & Application Security and Tobias Oplustil, Head of Responsible AI discuss the challenge of securing AI use cases as they move from pilot to production, from inconsistent controls and unclear ownership to output validation, and agent oversight. They share how PMI is embedding governance, security controls, validation, and access management into reusable AI components from the start, enabling AI adoption to scale without increasing enterprise risk.
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