Todd Vancil says enterprises hold about ten times more data than the public internet that public large language models train on.
“It turns out that enterprises hold about an order of magnitude more than the overall public domain of the internet.”
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Todd Vancil says the industry term ROT data stands for redundant, obsolete or trivial data.
“There's a term inside the industry that's that is becoming more widely used, called rot data, redundant, obsolete, or trivial data.”
Todd Vancil says keeping data past its legal retention period creates legal exposure because it is discoverable in legal proceedings.
“There can be a legal exposure that I that I held on to data past the time of legality. All of that data is discoverable”
Todd Vancil says he has worked in cybersecurity for about twenty-five years.
“I come from a cybersecurity background, that's been my posture for, like, the last twenty five years of my career.”
Todd Vancil says that more than a decade ago most large enterprises kept data and applications in their own or outsourced data centers, protected by perimeter security.
“Most large enterprises possessed most of their data and applications in physical spaces, either their own data centers or outsourced data centers that they kinda owned.”
Todd Vancil says cloud computing moved enterprise data to infrastructure providers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft and to software-as-a-service providers.
“Whether it be infrastructure as a service from the cloud service providers, the Amazons, the Googles, the Microsofts, whether it's being my data that is now inside of software as a service providers.”
Todd Vancil says Western Digital's high stock price reflects semiconductor and chip makers reorienting around AI, reducing storage supply while demand rises.
“Look at their stock. Why is that stock so high? I think it's very simple when you uncover it is our entire industry, from semiconductors through chips and so forth, have reoriented around AI.”
Todd Vancil cites the EU AI Act as a regulation seeking to govern how AI is used.
“The latest things we're seeing around AI is the EI, uh, the EU AI Act, which seeks to start regulating how AI is used, right?”
Todd Vancil says he lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and has flown American Airlines for more than thirty years.
“I live in the, uh, Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, which makes me pretty much hostage to American Airlines.”
Todd Vancil says airlines hold less obvious sensitive data such as travel dates, past trips and where customers stay, in addition to passport numbers and birth dates.
“Airlines know when I'm going to travel, where have I traveled? Sometimes they have partnerships with other organizations, they know where I might be staying or where do I like to stay.”
Todd Vancil says financial institutions are the most sophisticated at defense in depth, the layered security approach used in cybersecurity.
“They understood better than anybody else how to build multi layered. We call it defense in depth in the cybersecurity industry”
Todd Vancil describes retrieval augmented generation (RAG) as an AI agent fetching data from sources such as Salesforce or airline passenger records to enrich its response.
“This is where I've done a request, and based upon that request, the LLM or an agent, an agent says, Hey, I want to augment what I am generating for you as a response with some kind of data retrieval.”
Todd Vancil says security layers accumulate: antivirus from about twenty-five years ago, perimeters from fifteen years ago, privileged access management from ten, and identity and access management from five.
“You still have to go back twenty five years and do antivirus, you still have to go back fifteen years and do the moats and the boundaries”
Todd Vancil says innovative CIOs bring security, compliance, data and technology leaders together to manage AI as a joint program.
“the most innovative thinkers that we see are taking a common approach that innovative CIOs and technology leaders have”
Todd Vancil says shadow IT occurred when business units bought software-as-a-service products without IT's knowledge, exposing the organization to risk.
“Who get together with technologists over here in in, we call it shadow IT. They go buy SaaS to do something that I didn't need to know about and expose the organization to risk.”
Todd Vancil says several large Securiti AI customers run major initiatives to find and delete stale data, partly to save storage costs.
“There's a number of our large customers that have very large initiatives to go identify.”
Todd Vancil cites Waymo's driverless cars as an example of disruption of ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft.
“Waymos are even innovating around Uber, right, with, uh, driverless cars and so forth, right?”
Todd Vancil says data labels can restrict which parts of a file an LLM may read or can redact portions during training and ingestion.
“The labels might say, Hey, you're not allowed to read this part of the book, or this part of the book is redacted, or so forth.”