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Welcome to Guardians of the Data! Join host, Ward Balcerzak, each week as he dives deep into the passions, expertise, and experiences of CISOs, Chief Data Officers, and more. Guardians of the Data is sponsored by Sentra - AI-powered data security platform that discovers and classifies all your data accurately and automatically to achieve enterprise-scale data protection without the fuss.
Unknown Host hosts Guardians of the Data, a technology show with 56 episodes published.
If someone tried to onboard a new vendor tomorrow, would your organization know exactly which questions to ask before granting access to sensitive data? For most teams, the answer is a scramble, not a process. In this ep
What happens when your AI gets bored? According to this week's guest, it starts making its own decisions, and not always the ones you'd want. Robert Whetstine, known across the industry as the Bow Tie Security Guy, joins
What happens when the interviewer becomes the interviewee? For Guardians of the Data's one year anniversary, Kraig Faulkner, Field CTO at InfoLock, flips the script and puts host Ward Balcerzak in the hot seat. Ward fina
What if the biggest threat to your data security program isn't a hacker, but your own classification policy? In this special compilation episode, Ward Balcerzak brings together some of the sharpest voices from across Gua
If you had to guess where your organization's biggest data risk is hiding, would tech debt make your list? In this episode, Ward Balcerzak sits down with Dana Kilcrease, a nearly two decade cybersecurity veteran and curr
What if the biggest threat to your data wasn't a hacker, but your own success at collecting it? On this episode of Guardians of the Data, host Ward Balcerzak sits down with Andy Soodek, a privacy strategist and data gove
AI has changed the conversation around cybersecurity, but according to Anand Thangaraju, the real challenge has not changed at all: protecting what matters most. In this episode, Ward talks to Anand where he explains why
Most organizations have spent decades classifying data without ever asking the most important question: what are we actually trying to do with that classification? In this episode, David Smith, a cybersecurity leader wit
What if someone asked you right now where your most sensitive data lives? Most organizations would struggle to give a confident answer. In this episode, Tony Schimizzi draws on years of consulting experience to make a po
What's your biggest data security blind spot? Today's guest, Cory Zaner, Senior Enterprise Architect for critical infrastructure and trusted advisor to executive leaders, joins Ward to discuss why organizations continue
What data do you have, where does it live, and who has access to it? These three questions sit at the heart of every data security challenge and according to Brian Cherry, most organizations still can't answer them. In t
What would happen if your AI searched all your data right now? Today’s guest, Kevin Feck, Director of Data Protection and Security Architect, joins Ward to unpack how AI is reshaping the data security landscape. With ove
How can organizations govern AI responsibly when the technology (and the risks) are evolving faster than ever? In this episode of Guardians of the Data, Ward sits down with Sweeney Williams, Head of Responsible AI, to un
Are security teams already behind on AI? And what does it take to catch up? In this episode of Guardians of the Data, Ben Rothke joins the show to break down the biggest data security challenges facing organizations toda
How much of your company’s data is completely unknown? And what risk is it creating? In this episode, Ward sits down with Brent Bigelow: security consultant, President of the Charlotte ISSA, and a cybersecurity veteran w
What if your DLP tool is slowing your business down instead of protecting it? In this episode, Andrew Wilder shares why traditional data loss prevention (DLP) programs have struggled to deliver real value, and what needs
How do you protect sensitive data without becoming the bottleneck in a business that’s moving faster than ever? Today, Ketan Gotmare shares how nearly two decades in cybersecurity have shaped his perspective on modern da
How can the super technical cybersecurity leaders communicate risk and protection to other business leaders? Today, we unpack a huge topic: how to “speak business” when you’re a technology leader. We take a look back at
What is the first step in building an effective data security and data governance strategy? In this re-aired episode, we revisit a powerful conversation with Hans Vargas, Enterprise Data Protection Lead at Marathon Petro
Are organizations focusing on the wrong things when it comes to data security? In this episode of Guardians of the Data, Anand Pallapalayam, an enterprise data protection leader with nearly 30 years of experience, explai
Andrew Wilder
Chief Security Officer · NerdPress
1 appearance on this show
Sanjeev Kumar
Senior Global AI & Data Protection Lead · Department of Defence Production
1 appearance on this show
Kraig Faulkner
InfoLock
1 appearance on this show
Hans Vargas
Marathon Petroleum Corporation
1 appearance on this show
Jason Elrod
Limitless Cyber
1 appearance on this show
Joshua Copeland
Crescendo
1 appearance on this show
Arturo Santos
Amtrak
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Frank DePaola
EnPro
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