Security and governance ranked as top enablers for scaling enterprise AI

As enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption moves from hype to well-defined financial outcomes, it is becoming increasingly clear that AI adoption will not scale without security, governance and regulatory readiness at a company’s core. The Google Cloud ROI of AI 2026 report shows that organisations now demand predictable, governed, cost-efficient AI that can be deployed safely across core business processes. Executives ranked improved security, compliance, or regulatory readiness as the