Navigating the Security Risks Posed by Gen AI with Varonis' Matt Radolec

In this episode of the SecurityANGLE, our cybersecurity-focused series, I’m joined by Matt Radolec, VP of Incident Response, Cloud Operations, & SE EU at Varonis, for a conversation about navigating the security risks posed by generative AI and thoughts on how organizations can adopt AI but also manage to mitigate risk at the same time.
 

Varonis hosted one of its Data First Forum events a few weeks ago, which featured over 1,100 registrants and CISOs sharing lessons and insights on all things generative AI.

 

It was interesting to see that while 67% of organizations reported increasing their investments in generative AI, only about one-fifth of organizations shared they feel their organizations are prepared for the risk that comes along with gen AI, which tracks with our research on this topic as well.

 

And that is precisely why Matt and I wanted to discuss navigating security risks posed by generative AI in this episode, since it's obviously a very hot topic.

 

In this discussion, we explored:



- Some of the key risks CISOs are worried about associated with deploying gen AI tools.

- The challenges and concerns especially from a security standpoint,  that the Varonis team is hearing from CISOs as it relates to generative AI.

- How business leaders are determining business use cases that provide the greatest potential for organizations and the role of IT teams in that process.

- What a solid game plan looks like for deploying and maintaining copilots safely.

- Thoughts on practices for securing gen AI tools like copilot

We closed the show with some tips and tricks that Radolec recommends for safely deploying gen AI to your enterprise security tech stack.

 

Hope you’ll join us for what was a fantastic discussion.