Is Your Data Security Program Ready for the AI Explosion?

Varonis' Jim O'Boyle and Concentrix's Adam MaGill on Data Protection Imperatives Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • May 1, 2025

Nearly every organization these days has an AI pilot or new program underway. These fledgling AI models are being trained with hundreds of thousands of files and that's leading to a massive overexposure of data, said Adam MaGill, senior vice president for global security and CISO at Concentrix and Jim O'Boyle, vice chairman at Varonis.

To gain control of all of that data before AI applications go enterprise-wide, organizations need to understand the life cycle of the data, and the potential risks of using it to train AI models.

"Once you understand the normal, you can work with folks like Concentrix and help enterprises alert on the abnormal," O’Boyle said. "Whether it's ransomware, malware, insider threat, we can very quickly catch the abnormal and stop really bad ...