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. 4d ago

    When Legal Hold, Privacy and Retention Hit the Same Data: Building an eDiscovery Program That Holds Up | Data Xposure - Ep 25

    The same data can sit under a litigation hold, subject to a privacy request, and on a retention schedule at once, with cross-border restrictions on top. Most eDiscovery programs are built to answer one of those well, and the conflicts only surface when a second request arrives. Host Mike Hamilton talks with Nick Curtis, eDiscovery Manager at Tokio Marine HCC, the Houston-based specialty insurance group. Nick has built and run these programs from both sides, service provider and corporate, and has watched more organizations attempt it than most people in the field. What does it take to stop looking at data through a purely eDiscovery lens and start asking where it lives, who owns it, and which obligations attach to it? How do you design workflows, policies and procedures that hold up when legal, privacy, compliance and security all have a claim? Which decisions have to be made before the technology lands? And how do you get a team self-sufficient enough that the process survives the person who built it? Nick also traces how the program at Tokio Marine HCC matured over time. Legal holds that once took significant manual coordination now go out in minutes, the team has far better visibility into where data actually sits across the enterprise, and a significant share of document review has come back under the legal department's control. Technology made those gains possible, but the drivers were governance decisions, redesigned workflows, and getting legal, IT and compliance aligned on who owns what. For eDiscovery and legal operations managers, information governance and privacy teams, and anyone responsible for data that more than one department has a claim on. 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 Legal Hold, Privacy and Retention Hit the Same Data: Building an eDiscovery Program That Holds Up | Data Xposure - Ep 25

  2. Oct 20

    Most of the Things Accessing Your Data Aren't People Anymore - Data Xpsoure - Ep 24

    Ask your teams what data they hold and you get their best guess, on the day you asked. Host Fahad Diwan talks with Rudy Ristich, Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Privacy Officer at Avant, the Chicago-based consumer lender. Holding both roles is still rare, and it puts every question back on the same thing: the data, and the controls around it. Why do stakeholder interviews produce inaccurate inventories even when everyone is trying? What changes when classification is technical and continuous rather than a point-in-time snapshot? How is AI making phishing, deepfakes and identity fraud harder to defend against in consumer lending? And when a growing share of what logs into your systems is a machine or an AI agent rather than a person, what does access control even look like? Rudy covers all four, plus how a small team keeps pace with frontier labs shipping new capabilities every other week. For security leaders, chief privacy officers, data governance teams, and anyone whose remit spans both. 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/

    Most of the Things Accessing Your Data Aren't People Anymore - Data Xpsoure - Ep 24

  3. Sep 29

    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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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
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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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