Ward Balcerzak
Appears in 55 Episodes
Denial of Wallet - Robert Whetstine - Guardians of the Data - Episode # 54
What happens when your AI gets bored? According to this week's guest, it starts making its own decisions, and not always the ones you'd want. Robert Whetstine, known a...
The Host Gets Hosted - Ward Balcerzak - Guardians of the Data - Episode # 53
What happens when the interviewer becomes the interviewee? For Guardians of the Data's one year anniversary, Kraig Faulkner, Field CTO at InfoLock, flips the script an...
Compiled for Your Protection - Guardians of the Data - Episode # 52
What if the biggest threat to your data security program isn't a hacker, but your own classification policy? In this special compilation episode, Ward Balcerzak brings...
Stop Chasing Shiny Objects - Dana Kilcrease - Guardians of the Data - Episode #51
If you had to guess where your organization's biggest data risk is hiding, would tech debt make your list? In this episode, Ward Balcerzak sits down with Dana Kilcrea...
Data Never Sleeps - Andy Soodek - Guardians of the Data - Episode # 50
What if the biggest threat to your data wasn't a hacker, but your own success at collecting it? On this episode of Guardians of the Data, host Ward Balcerzak sits down...
Emerging Threats in Data Protection - Anand Thangaraju - Guardians of the Data - Episode # 49
AI has changed the conversation around cybersecurity, but according to Anand Thangaraju, the real challenge has not changed at all: protecting what matters most. In th...
Where Is Your Grandmother's Data? - David Smith - Guardians of the Data - Episode #48
Most organizations have spent decades classifying data without ever asking the most important question: what are we actually trying to do with that classification? In ...
Governance Never Ends - Zach Lewis - Guardians of the Data - Episode # 47
What happens when a ransomware threat actor claims they have 380 gigabytes of your data and you have no idea what is actually in it? That was the reality Zach Lewis fa...
Securing the Future - Jason Torres - Guardians of the Data - Episode # 46
What would happen if someone asked your team right now who has access to your most sensitive data and why? For most organizations, that question alone exposes just how...
Where Are Your Crown Jewels? - Tony Schimizzi - Guardians of the Data - Episode #45
What if someone asked you right now where your most sensitive data lives? Most organizations would struggle to give a confident answer. In this episode, Tony Schimizzi...
Classify First, Secure Everything Else - Cory Zaner - Guardians of the Data - Episode # 44
What's your biggest data security blind spot? Today's guest, Cory Zaner, Senior Enterprise Architect for critical infrastructure and trusted advisor to executive leade...
Navigating the Data Maze - Brian Cherry - Guardians of the Data - Episode # 43
What data do you have, where does it live, and who has access to it? These three questions sit at the heart of every data security challenge and according to Brian Che...
Fighting AI Risk with AI - Kevin Feck - Guardians of the Data - Ep #42
What would happen if your AI searched all your data right now? Today’s guest, Kevin Feck, Director of Data Protection and Security Architect, joins Ward to unpack how ...
AI Governance: Navigating the Speed of Change - Sweeney Williams - Guardians of the Data - Ep #41
How can organizations govern AI responsibly when the technology (and the risks) are evolving faster than ever? In this episode of Guardians of the Data, Ward sits down...
AI Is a Tsunami: Why Teams Are Playing Catch-Up - Ben Rothke - Guardians of the Data - Episode #40
Are security teams already behind on AI? And what does it take to catch up? In this episode of Guardians of the Data, Ben Rothke joins the show to break down the bigge...
The Unstructured Data Problem Not Yet Solved - Brent Bigelow - Guardians of the Data - Episode #39
How much of your company’s data is completely unknown? And what risk is it creating? In this episode, Ward sits down with Brent Bigelow: security consultant, President...
Using AI to Solve the Data Visibility Problem - Andrew Wilder - Guardians of the Data - Episode #38
What if your DLP tool is slowing your business down instead of protecting it? In this episode, Andrew Wilder shares why traditional data loss prevention (DLP) programs...
Solving Velocity vs. Control in the AI Era - Ketan Gotmare - Guardians of the Data - Episode #37
How do you protect sensitive data without becoming the bottleneck in a business that’s moving faster than ever? Today, Ketan Gotmare shares how nearly two decades in c...
Speaking Business: How Modern Guardians Translate Tech Talk - Guardians of the Data - Episode #36
How can the super technical cybersecurity leaders communicate risk and protection to other business leaders? Today, we unpack a huge topic: how to “speak business” whe...
Re-Air: Implementing Robust Data Protection Measures - Hans Vargas - Guardians of the Data - Ep #35
What is the first step in building an effective data security and data governance strategy? In this re-aired episode, we revisit a powerful conversation with Hans Varg...
