What if your security problem is really your data problem? Here's why Databricks is shifting the blame as it enters cybersecurity

Omar Khawaja spent nine years as CISO of a $26 billion organization responsible for 12 hospitals. He joined data and AI platform vendor Databricks after concluding that security problems can't be solved with security tools alone. That same thinking underpins Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity, the company's new platform.

Khawaja, now VP of Security and Field CISO, makes a straightforward argument – cybersecurity principles are well-established. The difficulty is doing them at scale across thousands of users and hundreds of applications. And that, he says, is a data problem – not a security one. He explains:

I could boil all of cyber down to maybe seven or eight principles and say, if you just do these eight simple things, you will have protected your organization. However, when you go to go do this practically in the real world, very little about it actually feels easy.

He compares it to medicine. Doctors ...