Proactive Risk Selects HATZ.AI to Help Regulated Organizations Govern, Secure, and Optimize AI Adoption
Updated September 6, 2026
Proactive Risk Selects HATZ.AI to Help Regulated Organizations Govern, Secure, and Optimize AI Adoption
DENVILLE, NJ : September 5, 2026 : Proactive Risk, Inc., a cybersecurity, compliance, and risk-management consulting firm, today announced the selection of HATZ.AI as a strategic platform to help clients manage the expanding use of artificial intelligence across regulated industries.
Organizations are increasingly adopting AI technologies such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and industry-specific AI tools. These technologies may improve productivity and streamline operations, but they also create new questions involving governance, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, cost visibility, and employee usage.
HATZ.AI describes its offering as a secure AI platform built for small and organizations. The platform is designed to help organizations build, deploy, and manage AI; create workflows and automations; integrate tools; and maintain control over data.
Proactive Risk will use HATZ.AI alongside its cybersecurity, compliance, and risk-management expertise to help clients establish practical oversight for AI adoption while supporting responsible innovation.
“Artificial Intelligence is transforming nearly every industry, but many organizations are adopting AI faster than they can govern it,” said Tom Brennan, Founder & CEO of Proactive Risk. “Our clients need practical ways to understand where AI is being used, manage risk, control spending, and ensure compliance with regulatory obligations. HATZ.AI provides a framework that helps organizations bring visibility and accountability to their AI initiatives.”
Why AI Governance Is Now a Business Requirement
AI adoption is no longer limited to technology departments. Employees may use AI to draft communications, analyze documents, summarize meetings, support research, generate code, or automate routine work.
That distributed adoption can be difficult for leadership to see and manage. An organization may know which tools it has formally approved while having limited visibility into the tools employees use independently.
For regulated organizations, this is similar to allowing new vehicles onto a company fleet without knowing who is driving them, what cargo they carry, or whether they are following established routes. The issue is not innovation. The issue is maintaining enough visibility and control to manage the resulting risk.
AI governance can help organizations define:
- Which AI use cases are approved.
- What types of data may be entered into AI tools.
- Who may approve new AI applications and workflows.
- How AI-related spending is reviewed.
- How employee usage is monitored appropriately.
- How security, privacy, and compliance considerations are documented.
- How the organization will respond as AI-related requirements evolve.
Needs will vary by organization, industry, technology environment, and applicable obligations. AI governance does not replace legal, regulatory, privacy, or cybersecurity advice. It provides a management structure for evaluating those considerations consistently.
Addressing the AI Governance Challenge
Organizations in healthcare, financial services, legal services, government contracting, cannabis operations, and critical infrastructure may face heightened requirements for protecting sensitive information and demonstrating oversight.
Common AI governance concerns include:
- Managing AI-related cybersecurity risks.
- Controlling licensing and subscription costs.
- Establishing approval and review workflows.
- Protecting confidential, personal, proprietary, and regulated data.
- Understanding employee AI usage patterns.
- Identifying shadow AI and unauthorized tool usage.
- Reviewing third-party AI providers and related risks.
- Supporting audit, insurer, regulator, and stakeholder inquiries.
- Preparing for emerging AI-related requirements.
The objective is not to prevent employees from using useful technology. It is to help leadership understand how AI is being used and make informed decisions about acceptable risk.
How We Deliver It
Proactive Risk’s approach is designed to connect AI governance with the organization’s broader cybersecurity and enterprise-risk program.
The company may help clients assess AI adoption through the same basic questions used to evaluate other important business systems:
- Leadership and accountability: Who owns AI governance and who makes escalation decisions?
- Policy and people: Do employees understand acceptable and prohibited uses?
- Identity and access: Who can use particular AI tools, data sources, or workflows?
- Data protection: What information may be processed, retained, or shared?
- Technology and applications: Are AI tools and workflows evaluated before deployment?
- Monitoring and measurement: Can the organization identify usage, cost, and control gaps?
- Response and resilience: What happens when an AI-related incident or misuse is identified?
- Oversight and improvement: How are controls reviewed as the organization, technology, and requirements change?
These eight layers of protection are relevant because AI governance cannot operate as a standalone policy document. It should connect to the organization’s people, systems, data, processes, and leadership decisions.
Enhancing Proactive Risk’s AI Advisory Services
The HATZ.AI platform complements Proactive Risk’s existing cybersecurity, compliance, and risk-management services, including:
- CyberAdvisor™ vCISO services for executive-level cybersecurity leadership, risk prioritization, governance, and strategic planning.
- MANAGEIT™ managed IT and security operations to support day-to-day technology, monitoring, and security operations.
- CATSCAN® security assessments and penetration testing to identify weaknesses before adversaries exploit them.
- Compliance readiness programs to support evidence collection, policy development, and control-gap analysis.
- Third-party risk management to help organizations evaluate technology providers and other external dependencies.
- Microsoft Copilot readiness assessments to help organizations review governance, security, data, and operational considerations before or during adoption.
- AI governance and risk assessments to help identify exposure, clarify responsibilities, and establish a practical roadmap.
Organizations can learn more about Proactive Risk services through the company’s services overview, CyberAdvisor™ vCISO offering, MeasureRISK compliance services, and CATSCAN® security assessments.
Enabling Responsible AI Adoption
HATZ.AI is intended to support organizations that want to build, deploy, and manage AI while maintaining greater control over data, workflows, and business use cases.
Proactive Risk will help clients evaluate how that type of platform may fit within their existing governance model and risk priorities. The appropriate approach will depend on each client’s environment, objectives, policies, contractual obligations, and applicable requirements.
“AI offers tremendous opportunities to improve productivity, decision-making, and business efficiency. However, organizations must be able to demonstrate that AI is being deployed responsibly. Governance, visibility, and accountability are no longer optional. They are becoming business requirements.”
Responsible AI adoption starts with practical questions:
- What business problem is the organization trying to solve?
- What data will the AI system process?
- Which employees or departments may use it?
- What approvals are required?
- How will spending and usage be reviewed?
- What documentation will leadership need?
- How will the organization evaluate new risks over time?
Executive AI Governance Strategy Session
Proactive Risk is offering a complimentary Executive AI Governance Strategy Session for qualified organizations seeking to understand their current AI exposure and governance priorities.
The session may help organizations:
- Evaluate AI-related risks and applicable obligations.
- Identify governance and policy gaps.
- Review AI security and data-protection considerations.
- Assess Microsoft Copilot readiness.
- Develop an AI governance roadmap aligned with business objectives.
Organizations are invited to schedule an Executive AI Governance Consultation or Risk Briefing. The discussion is intended as a practical starting point for leadership teams evaluating responsible AI adoption.
The Proactive Risk Perspective
AI can support strategic goals, but unmanaged adoption can create uncertainty around data, cost, accountability, and operational risk. A governance program helps leadership make informed decisions before those issues become an audit concern, insurance question, regulatory challenge, or security incident.
By combining HATZ.AI with cybersecurity advisory, compliance, managed operations, testing, and risk-management expertise, Proactive Risk will help organizations build an AI governance approach that is practical, appropriately scoped, and informed by applicable frameworks, regulatory obligations, and enterprise-risk objectives.
The goal is straightforward: Secure the Future of Your Strategic Goals.
Contact Proactive Risk
PROACTIVE RISK Intelligence-Led Cybersecurity & Risk Management ANTICIPATE. DEFEND. PREVAIL.
36 First Avenue, Suite 203 Denville, NJ 07834
- Email: info@proactiverisk.com
- Phone: 973-298-1160
- Website: https://proactiverisk.com
About Proactive Risk
Founded in 2001, PROACTIVE RISK is an SDVOSB-certified cybersecurity and risk-management firm headquartered in Denville, New Jersey, serving regulated and high-risk organizations nationwide.
The firm provides cybersecurity advisory, managed security services, compliance assessments, penetration testing, third-party risk management, AI governance consulting, and vCISO services. Through offerings including CyberAdvisor™, MANAGEIT™, MeasureRISK, and CATSCAN®, Proactive Risk helps organizations strengthen security, support compliance readiness, manage emerging technology risks, and improve cyber resilience.
Disclaimer
HATZ.AI selection, platform availability, and any related services are subject to scope, agreements, client environment, and applicable terms. Neither Proactive Risk nor HATZ.AI guarantees compliance, security, cost savings, regulatory approval, or specific business outcomes. Organizations should obtain appropriate legal, regulatory, privacy, and cybersecurity guidance for their circumstances.
