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#272 - Data Centric Platform Play (with EJ Pappas)

In this episode of CISO Tradecraft, host G Mark Hardy speaks with EJ Pappas of PKWARE and Ross Young about why AI-driven threats demand a shift from platform-centric security to a data-centric strategy.

CISOs still struggle to answer, “Where is our sensitive data?” as it sprawls across AI, endpoints, cloud, SaaS, and shared environments. In this conversation, we explore:

Why CISOs still struggle with data visibility

How vendor sprawl and fragmented toolsets create blind spots

The difference between structured and unstructured data risk

Why AI accelerates both defense and mistakes

DLP vs…

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