Data Xposure: The Podcast for Data Risk Leaders

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What’s hiding in your data could cost you everything. Data Xposure is Exterro’s biweekly podcast for senior legal, privacy, compliance, and digital forensics professionals navigating the ever-evolving landscape of data risk. Each 20-minute episode dives into the headlines—major breaches, court cases, enforcement actions—and unpacks the real breakdowns behind the news: misaligned policies, siloed systems, and operational blind spots. Through narrative storytelling and expert interviews, we connect the dots between real-world failures and the proactive strategies used by successful organizations to avoid them. Designed for leaders who want to elevate their influence, sharpen their risk posture, and lead with confidence, Data Xposure cuts through the noise to deliver urgent, actionable insight—with a tone that’s curious, clear, and grounded in reality. If you're responsible for managing data risk across legal, IT, security, or compliance—this is your front-row seat to the moments where strategy meets consequence. 🎧 New episodes every two weeks. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

  1. 6d ago

    Agentic AI and the Changing Data Risk Playbook: XChange 2026 Recap | Data Xposure - Ep 23

    Exterro product marketing leaders Fahad Diwan, Bryant Bell, and Robert Bond recap Exterro XChange 2026, Exterro's annual global user conference for eDiscovery, forensics, privacy and compliance professionals, held September 21–23 in Nashville. Across hundreds of customer conversations, one theme kept surfacing: teams are working to connect eDiscovery, privacy, forensics and compliance as investigations and data requests increasingly cross departments. When evidence moves between tools and teams, its integrity has to hold, and how it was collected, analyzed and shared has to be documented. The discussion covers how legal and forensic teams handle litigation, regulatory requests, suspected breaches and employee misconduct: finding relevant evidence, establishing what happened, where AI speeds that up, and what a practitioner still has to review and verify. They also discuss Exterro ARMOUR, Exterro's agentic AI technology for legal, forensic and governance work. Rather than answering questions like a chatbot, it plans and carries out multi-step tasks — pulling in the right data and people, and pausing for human sign-off before anything consequential. The conversation covers where that reduces manual work across investigations and data requests, and where it doesn't. Anonymized customer results include document review in a fraud investigation cut from two weeks to about four hours across 200,000 documents, and document review for an HR data subject request cut from 60-plus hours to about three. Across three early adopter customers, teams report roughly 90% efficiency gains on matters and investigations. For general counsel, legal ops leaders, privacy officers, forensic investigators, and anyone owning data risk across one or more disciplines. Thanks for tuning in to the latest episode of Data Xposure. Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an update. For show notes, resources, and to connect with us, visit exterro.com/data-exposure-podcast/

    Agentic AI and the Changing Data Risk Playbook: XChange 2026 Recap | Data Xposure - Ep 23

  2. Sep 1

    You're Not the Only One Solving This: Why Community Is the Real Multiplier in Data Risk | Data Xposure - Ep 22

    The hardest part of managing data risk usually isn't the technology; it's the feeling that you are wrestling with your problems alone. You aren't. The professionals who pull ahead tend to be plugged into a community of peers who have already solved the challenges keeping them up at night. In this episode of Data Xposure, Customer Success leaders Marla Darling and Ashley Dow draw on years of experience working with hundreds of legal, privacy, and forensics teams to unpack what separates organizations that get lasting value from their programs from those that stall. While tools matter, the network around them matters more. This philosophy drives Exterro XChange, the company's global user conference, which will serve as a running thread in this conversation. Marla and Ashley will discuss where community delivers the most value: hands-on training, onsite certifications, candid peer exchanges, roadmap sessions, and thought leadership. It is a preview of what draws people to Nashville this September at Exterro XChange and a case for why resilient data risk professionals never go it alone. Thanks for tuning in to the latest episode of Data Xposure. Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an update. For show notes, resources, and to connect with us, visit exterro.com/data-exposure-podcast/

    You're Not the Only One Solving This: Why Community Is the Real Multiplier in Data Risk | Data Xposure - Ep 22

  3. Aug 25

    Stay Calm, Move Smart: Leading Through Data Risk Without the Knee-Jerk Reaction | Data Xposure - Ep 21

    When a legal hold breaks down, a cyber investigation escalates, or a new technology challenges an established workflow, the pressure to act immediately can overwhelm the need to act wisely. For data risk leaders, the difference between a measured response and a reflexive one can determine whether an issue is contained—or compounded. In this episode of Data Xposure, brought to you by Exterro, Thomas Mullane, Associate Director of eDiscovery & Cyber Investigations at RTX, draws on nearly two decades of experience spanning information governance, eDiscovery, privacy, and legal technology. He explores how leaders can maintain perspective under pressure, separate urgency from panic, and make defensible decisions when facts are incomplete and stakeholders are demanding answers. The conversation also examines the tension between innovation and the status quo: when established processes provide necessary discipline, when they become barriers to progress, and how teams can introduce change without creating unnecessary risk. Listeners will leave with a practical framework for staying composed, challenging organizational defaults, and moving forward with clarity rather than reacting out of fear. It reflects Data Xposure’s focus on candid, actionable lessons from practitioners managing real enterprise data risk. Thanks for tuning in to the latest episode of Data Xposure. Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an update. For show notes, resources, and to connect with us, visit exterro.com/data-exposure-podcast/

    Stay Calm, Move Smart: Leading Through Data Risk Without the Knee-Jerk Reaction | Data Xposure - Ep 21

  4. Aug 11

    When Data Preservation Isn't Free: Andy Hansell on Proportionality, Legacy Data, and the AI Arms Race

    Preservation law was built for a world of paper, where keeping records meant simply not throwing them away. Data does not work that way, and the gap between those two realities is where cost, risk, and disputes now live. In this episode of Data Xposure, brought to you by Exterro, Andy Hansell, Director Counsel at Target, draws on a career spanning law firm practice, eDiscovery consulting, and in-house leadership. That path gave him fluency in both sides of a discovery dispute: the incentive to drive costs up, and the incentive to keep them down. He explains why preserving legacy systems is far from free, how proportionality applies to preservation and not only to collection and review, and why courts and opposing counsel often assume a database can answer questions it was never built to ask. Andy also offers a contrarian view of AI in litigation. Rather than a defense-side cost saver, he sees an arms race, plaintiffs have more incentive to adopt AI than defendants do, and the result may be more lawsuits, more sharply targeted. Listeners will come away with a practical view of how to defend preservation decisions, communicate data realities to outside counsel, and think clearly about what AI actually changes. Thanks for tuning in to the latest episode of Data Xposure. Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an update. For show notes, resources, and to connect with us, visit exterro.com/data-exposure-podcast/

    When Data Preservation Isn't Free: Andy Hansell on Proportionality, Legacy Data, and the AI Arms Race

  5. Jul 27

    Coaching AI Change: Kimberly Harlowe on Trust, Risk, and Legal Innovation | Data Xposure - Ep 19

    AI strategy in legal operations is not just a technology decision. It is a leadership challenge, one that requires trust, discipline, and the ability to bring the right teams along. In this episode of Data Xposure, brought to you by Exterro, Kimberly Harlowe, Senior Director, Litigation Support and Technology at Altria, shares how her passion for coaching basketball has shaped her approach to leadership, team dynamics, and innovation. She explains why relationship capital matters when legal, IT, security, business units, and outside counsel are asked to move quickly under pressure. Kim also explores how legal leaders can evaluate AI with a measured strategy: balancing ROI with risk, using smaller proofs of concept to test value, and communicating clearly with senior leadership. Listeners will come away with a practical view of how to coach teams through change, challenge the status quo, and adopt AI without losing sight of defensibility, trust, and control. Thanks for tuning in to the latest episode of Data Xposure. Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an update. For show notes, resources, and to connect with us, visit exterro.com/data-exposure-podcast/

    Coaching AI Change: Kimberly Harlowe on Trust, Risk, and Legal Innovation | Data Xposure - Ep 19

  6. Jul 10

    From Reactive to Strategic: How Legal Teams Are Rebuilding Around Data and AI | Data Xposure - Ep 18

    Legal teams are no longer just responding to litigation, investigations, or compliance demands after the fact. Today, they’re being asked to help organizations proactively manage risk across increasingly complex data environments shaped by AI, regulation, security threats, and rapid business change. In this episode of Data Xposure, we sit down with Linda Luperchio to explore how modern legal and risk leaders are rebuilding their organizations around data and AI. Linda shares her journey from paralegal to executive leadership and reflects on how the profession itself has evolved from siloed legal workflows to cross-functional collaboration spanning compliance, privacy, security, information governance, and business operations. The conversation explores where AI is already creating meaningful value, where organizations still need strong governance and human oversight, and why data has become the foundation for nearly every major risk and business decision. Together, we unpack how forward-thinking organizations are moving from reactive problem-solving to strategic risk management and what leaders must do now to build resilient, data-driven teams prepared for the future. Thanks for tuning in to the latest episode of Data Xposure. Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an update. For show notes, resources, and to connect with us, visit exterro.com/data-exposure-podcast/

    From Reactive to Strategic: How Legal Teams Are Rebuilding Around Data and AI | Data Xposure - Ep 18

  7. Jun 25

    The FBI's Race Against Time: How the FBI Streamlined the Investigation of the Trump Assassination Attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner | Data Xposure - Ep 17

    After an attempted assassination at the 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner, the FBI had limited time to reconstruct a suspect's planning, communications, movements, and intent from millions of digital artifacts. In this episode of Data Xposure, Harsh Behl, VP of Product Management & AI at Exterro, takes listeners inside one of the most time-sensitive digital investigations in recent memory. He explains how the FBI Washington Field Office used Exterro FTK Suite to process millions of digital artifacts, coordinate analysis across multiple investigative teams, and rapidly connect evidence spanning devices, cloud accounts, communications, financial records, and travel data. This isn't a discussion about the attack itself. It's a look at what happens when investigators are forced to turn overwhelming amounts of data into actionable intelligence under extreme pressure. For legal, security, compliance, and investigative leaders, the challenge is familiar. Whether responding to a cyberattack, insider threat, workplace incident, or regulatory investigation, success often depends on one question: Can you find the answers before time runs out? Join us as we explore what organizations can learn from the FBI's response and why forensic readiness, AI-assisted analysis, and scalable investigation workflows are becoming critical capabilities in a data-driven world. Thanks for tuning in to the latest episode of Data Xposure. Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an update. For show notes, resources, and to connect with us, visit exterro.com/data-exposure-podcast/

    The FBI's Race Against Time: How the FBI Streamlined the Investigation of the Trump Assassination Attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner | Data Xposure - Ep 17

  8. May 5

    From Depp-Heard to Epstein: How eDiscovery Became Everyone’s Problem | Data Xposure - Ep 16

    The headlines are hard to ignore. High-profile cases— the scrutiny of celebrity text messages and photos in the Depp-Heard litigation to the release of Epstein-related documents—have turned private communications into public evidence. What was once buried in legal proceedings is now playing out in real time, shaping reputations, careers, and corporate risk. But these aren’t edge cases. They’re signals. In this episode of Data Xposure, we explore how eDiscovery has moved into the mainstream—and why it now impacts far more than just legal teams. Because the same types of messages, files, and digital conversations making headlines are being created inside your organization every day. Doug Austin, a leading voice in eDiscovery with over 30 years of experience and the Editor of eDiscovery Today, joins us to unpack what’s changed—and why so many organizations are still unprepared. From the explosion of collaboration tools to the growing expectations of regulators and courts, he explains how everyday data has become a business-wide liability if it’s not properly understood and managed. For legal, compliance, and security leaders, this is the shift: eDiscovery is no longer a moment you prepare for. It’s a continuous reflection of how your organization operates. Because as recent headlines make clear— the risk isn’t just in what’s exposed. It’s in what’s been there all along. Thanks for tuning in to the latest episode of Data Xposure. Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an update. For show notes, resources, and to connect with us, visit exterro.com/data-exposure-podcast/

    From Depp-Heard to Epstein: How eDiscovery Became Everyone’s Problem | Data Xposure - Ep 16
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What’s hiding in your data could cost you everything. Data Xposure is Exterro’s biweekly podcast for senior legal, privacy, compliance, and digital forensics professionals navigating the ever-evolving landscape of data risk. Each 20-minute episode dives into the headlines—major breaches, court cases, enforcement actions—and unpacks the real breakdowns behind the news: misaligned policies, siloed systems, and operational blind spots. Through narrative storytelling and expert interviews, we connect the dots between real-world failures and the proactive strategies used by successful organizations to avoid them. Designed for leaders who want to elevate their influence, sharpen their risk posture, and lead with confidence, Data Xposure cuts through the noise to deliver urgent, actionable insight—with a tone that’s curious, clear, and grounded in reality. If you're responsible for managing data risk across legal, IT, security, or compliance—this is your front-row seat to the moments where strategy meets consequence. 🎧 New episodes every two weeks. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

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