Name: Data Security Everywhere: Protecting Your Sensitive Data in an AI-Driven World
Start: 2025-12-04T14:00:00Z
End: 2025-12-04T14:00:43.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Today’s security challenges begin and end with data. In this channel, Forcepoint experts share insights into how organizations can protect sensitive information across cloud, network and on-prem environments while enabling productivity everywhere. 

From uncovering hidden risks with Data Risk Assessments to building stronger compliance strategies, you’ll learn how to put data at the center of your security program. Watch our sessions to discover how Forcepoint is helping CISOs, security leaders and practitioners reduce risk, simplify operations and strengthen trust in the age of AI and cloud transformation. 

Forcepoint hosts Rachael Lyon and Jonathan Knepher sit down with former FBI counterintelligence operative and cybersecurity expert Eric O’Neill to reframe how organizations should think about cyber threats.

Drawing on his role in uncovering FBI insider Robert Hanssen, O’Neill explains why today’s cybercriminals operate more like professional spies than traditional hackers. The conversation explores how deception, impersonation and urgency drive modern attacks, how AI-powered deepfakes are changing business email compromise, and why counterintelligence principles like segmentation, auditing and context-aware analytics are now essential.

This conversation will help you get a clearer understanding of how cybercrime has evolved and what practical steps organizations can take to build a culture of verification, skepticism and resilience in an AI-driven threat landscape.

The War on Data, Cyberspies and AI

Forcepoint hosts Rachael Lyon and Jonathan Knepher are joined by Matt Lea, creator of Cloud War Games, to explore how teams can prepare for real-world cloud outages and cyber incidents before they occur.

Matt explains how immersive cloud disaster simulations help DevOps and security teams develop muscle memory, reduce single points of failure, and stay calm under pressure. The conversation covers incident response culture, credential leaks, least-privilege access, and how to differentiate between misconfigurations and active attacks.

Whether you’re leading a startup team or supporting large-scale cloud environments, this discussion offers practical advice for building resilient teams capable of acting decisively when it matters most.

Building Disaster Muscle Memory and Collaborative Resilience in DevOps Teams

As governments and organizations worldwide race to regulate artificial intelligence, a key question stands out: how can we protect privacy, ensure transparency, and still innovate responsibly?

Forcepoint hosts Rachael Lyon and Jonathan Knepher are joined by Shane Tews, President of Logan Circle Strategies to discuss today’s most pressing AI policy issues:

- Safeguarding privacy in an era of ever-expanding data
- Digital sovereignty and content moderation
- The delicate balance between fostering innovation and protecting digital trust
- The increasing need for education among lawmakers and tech leaders
- Effects of AI legislation in various nations, and how organizations can get ready for the next phase of regulations

Navigating AI Policy: Challenges in Privacy, Governance, and Regulation

Get hands-on with Forcepoint’s latest innovations transforming Data Security. This session showcases how AI Mesh enables intelligent Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) at scale, how Risk-Adaptive Protection (RAP) dynamically adjusts enforcement based on user behavior, and how Data Detection and Response (DDR) offers continuous threat monitoring and responses to defend against near real-time data breaches. See live demos and learn how Forcepoint delivers new-age security that responds to dynamically changing data sensitivity, user behavior, and risk context.

The Demo Stage: Latest Innovations in Data Security with AI Mesh, DDR, and Risk-Adaptive Protection

Hear how Forcepoint DSPM helps FBD Insurance provide a strong foundation for the Data Protection Office to ensure the principle of least privilege is always enforced for regulated data, no matter where it resides.

Comprehensive Data Access Governance

Learn how Forcepoint delivers real-time data protection purpose-built for enterprises embracing Generative AI and LLM tools, both internal and SaaS. Discover how to prevent unauthorized sharing, prompt injection, and sensitive data exfiltration across AI-powered channels, while maintaining compliance, visibility, and trust in Generative AI workflows.

AI-Native Data Security for GenAI-Ready Enterprises

SaaS adoption introduces compliance blind spots – stale data, ungoverned file sharing, and inconsistent controls across cloud apps. In this session, explore how Forcepoint’s Data Security Everywhere approach enables continuous compliance by automating sensitive data classification, surfacing risks to regulated data such as public exposure, providing remediation workflows, and enforcing data loss controls.

From Audit Headaches to Automated Compliance: Streamlining Data Governance

Explore real-world strategies to combat data sprawl across SaaS apps, GenAI tools, web, email and endpoints. Learn how deep data discovery, AI-driven classification, and unified, risk-aware policies help organizations prevent data loss across all channels and secure digital transformation at scale.

From Sprawl to Control: Regaining Control Over Data in a GenAI World

Forcepoint CEO Ryan Windham wraps Day One by distilling the top takeaways into a clear path forward: see what others miss, adapt faster than threats, and use AI to defend against AI. Walk away with a ready-to-use playbook for protecting sensitive data in the AI era.

See Everything Everywhere – Full visibility into sensitive data flows
Adapt Without Delay – Rapidly evolve controls with changing threats
Fight AI Smart – Use AI-native defenses against AI-driven risks
Secure and Enable – Protect data without slowing the business
Act on Insight – Turn today’s lessons into immediate action

Forcepoint AWARE - Closing Comments and Day Two Preview

You’ve heard why self-aware data security matters. Now it’s where the proof meets the pudding: making it real in environments with millions or billions of records, files, sprawling databases, and AI touching sensitive data at every turn.

In this fireside chat, Chief Product and Marketing Officer Naveen Palavalli teams up with CTO and Global Head of Engineering Bakshi Kohli to dig into how to start closing the Visibility-Control Gap — without adding complexity. 

They’ll share how to pick your starting point, align teams, and put controls in place that can adapt to AI-driven risk in real time.

The goal: visibility into what matters, adapting to risk, and scaling protection to pave the way to a simpler path for compliance and security.

Session Takeaways: 
- How to choose a practical starting point for securing AI-driven data flows 
- What adaptive protection looks like in action, from endpoint to cloud 
- Customer-tested ways to unify policies and reduce tool fatigue

The Future of Self-Aware Data Security

AI has changed the tempo of cyberattacks along with the margin for error. In this session, Darwish Azad, CISO at Emirates NBD, shares how organizations could adapt to detecting and disrupting AI-enabled threats in real time, using a blend of visibility, adaptive controls and automation.

Moderated by Rick Hanson, President of Go-to-Market at Forcepoint, here is an unfiltered account of what happens when a security team meets a fast-moving, AI-powered attack. You’ll learn how they identified the risk, closed the gaps and kept operations moving – and how you can apply the same tactics to your own environment.

Session Takeaways:
- Lessons to stop AI-driven data exfiltration
- How to adapt controls on the fly without breaking workflows
- Steps to build resilience against fast-changing threats

A Field Guide to Thwarting Sophisticated AI-Driven Threats

Data growth, AI adoption and tightening regulations are stretching CISOs and their teams to the limit.

Managing tools is one thing. The hardest part is making sure your teams align defenses to real, material threats, especially for AI, proving it to the board and keeping pace with how fast risk is changing in the cloud.

Ross Young, creator of the OWASP Threat and Safeguard Matrix, joins Alex Martinez, Director Solutions Architecture, Global Public Sector Partners at AWS, to share what they’re seeing inside security programs right now. From cloud transformation risks to AI-powered attack methods, they’ll walk through proven ways to connect visibility, strategy, and reporting.

Session Takeaways:
- Build a defensible strategy that maps directly to real AI-driven threats
- Anticipate and address cloud transformation risks before they escalate
- Communicate security priorities so boards and execs stay aligned

Ask The Experts: CISO Strategies to Control AI Risk

AI isn’t “on the way.” It’s already inside the workflows, tools, and cloud apps moving your data. And too often, that data is leaving your control before you even know it’s gone.

The real challenge goes beyond just seeing the risk. It’s acting in time to stop it. That’s the Visibility-Control Gap — and in an AI-driven world, it’s widening fast. 

In his welcome remarks, Ryan Windham shares what it takes to close that gap. You’ll hear how teams are combining real-time visibility with adaptive controls and automated protection to keep sensitive data safe without slowing down the business. This is about making AI work for you, not against you — and turning data security into an advantage instead of a roadblock. 

Session Takeaways: 
- Greater visibility alone isn’t solving today’s risk 
- The “Visibility-Control Gap” is becoming a new attack surface 
- AI is helping security teams recognize vulnerabilities and adapt fast

Closing the Visibility-Control Gap: Reimagining Data Security for the AI-Driven Future

Forcepoint hosts Rachael Lyon and Jonathan Knepher welcome Chris Hurst, CTO and Co-Founder of Blackwired, for a deep dive into the fast-evolving world of supply chain attacks, credential theft, and the future of cyber defense. With a background in military-grade intelligence and leadership in developing key security frameworks for the UK government, Chris brings firsthand insights and compelling stories from the front lines—revealing the hidden threats that quietly undermine critical industries.

Join this conversation as Chris breaks down the anatomy of recent supply chain breaches and challenges the status quo in threat intelligence and cyber resilience; why the prevailing “whack-a-mole” approach to cybersecurity is no longer effective.

Building Resilient Security Strategies for Modern Supply Chain Threats

Forcepoint hosts Rachael Lyon and Jonathan Knepher are joined by Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet, to dive into the rapidly evolving world of third-party risk management—especially in the healthcare sector.

Ed unpacks the new complexities of managing risk in a world where nearly every business process depends on cloud solutions, SaaS vendors, IoT, medical devices, and artificial intelligence. Ed also explores the complex landscape of AI adoption, from ambient listening in clinical settings to the delicate balance of technological innovation and patient safety. 

Hear insights on the exponential growth of attack surfaces in healthcare, the challenges of AI governance, and how organizations can balance the promise of innovation with the pressing need to protect patient safety and data quality.

How AI and Third-Party Risk Are Transforming Healthcare Cybersecurity

In today’s competitive landscape, employee transitions can open the door to serious data security risks. Whether through intentional exfiltration or accidental exposure, your organization’s intellectual property (IP) is vulnerable when staff leave.

Join Forcepoint and Plurilock for a must-attend webinar where top experts will share how to protect your most sensitive data during these critical moments.

What You’ll Learn:
- Common Data Loss Vectors: Understand how IP escapes during off-boarding and what to monitor.
- Insider Threat Tactics Exposed: Hear from Plurilock’s red team on how insiders bypass traditional DLP tools.
- DLP Best Practices: Learn how to configure and optimize your DLP systems for transition periods.
- Early Warning Detection: Discover behavioral indicators that signal potential data theft before it happens.

Data Walks Out the Door: Protecting IP during Staffing Transitions

Betsy Cooper, founding director of the Aspen Policy Academy, joins Forcepoint hosts Jonathan Knepher and Rachael Lyon, to discuss the importance of bridging the gap between technologists and policymakers.

Tune in as the trio explores how AI and cybersecurity are reshaping the threat landscape, what roles individuals and small businesses can play in shaping policy, and why now, more than ever, your voice matters in the digital conversation.

Closing Cybersecurity Blind Spots: Civic Engagement and Policy Innovations

There was a time that Americans were beginning to be as attuned to data privacy as their European counterparts.  Recently though, the pace of passage of privacy legislation has slowed.  If commercial advertising is to be believed, the public’s concern is more about cybersecurity and AI than privacy.  Even in countries subject to GDPR, the growth in the number and amount of fines does not indicate greater adoption of privacy measures, but rather the reverse.  This session will provide guidance to security and privacy professionals on maintaining data privacy investments and efforts in the face of diminishing mindshare.

Tune in to this webinar to learn:
- Where data privacy sits in relation to other security imperatives.
- Why laws and regulations alone will not help meet privacy objectives.
- How to maintain data privacy as an enterprise commitment.
- How to incorporate provisions for privacy in cybersecurity and AI efforts.

Who Still Cares About Data Privacy?

Generative AI tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude enable employees to work at unprecedented volume and speed. However, this surge in AI-generated content has also introduced new risks and exposures that regulators are now closely monitoring.

In the era of generative AI, relying solely on tools for content inspection, device control, and endpoint privilege management isn’t enough to satisfy auditors or prevent data loss. Modern compliance frameworks, such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, and CMMC, all require proof that your endpoints are correctly configured and that you have the necessary controls in place.

Join Jeremy Moskowitz, former 20X Microsoft MVP and CTO of Endpoints at Netwrix, to learn how Netwrix prevents data loss and proves compliance across multi-OS endpoint environments the quick and easy way.

During this session, Jeremy will show you how to:
· Prevent sensitive data exposure to LLMs while ensuring safe AI usage and shadow AI discovery.
· Secure USBs with MDM-style controls that include decoupled encryption keys, remote wipe, and password management
· Protect sensitive data across Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints that connect to printers, Bluetooth devices, and the internet
· Enforce least privilege and prevent unauthorized software installation without disrupting user productivity or increasing helpdesk tickets
· Generate the audit-ready evidence required for CMMC, PCI, HIPAA, NIST, GDPR, and more

You’ll leave with a clear framework for turning everyday endpoint controls into verifiable compliance - proof that your endpoints are not just locked down but entirely governed in the era of AI.

Enforce and Prove Endpoint Compliance in the AI Era

New regulations like EU DORA, NIS 2, and state AI laws are shifting liability from organizations to individual cybersecurity professionals, creating unprecedented personal legal risks. This shift means practitioners now risk individual prosecution and career-ending consequences for security decisions made under pressure.

The modern CISO must balance technical expertise with legal acumen, understanding how incident response choice, from ransomware payments to breach notifications, can create personal liability. As litigation increasingly targets individual practitioners alongside organizations, developing legally defensible security strategies has become essential for professional survival.

Join Dr. Ilia Kolochenko (CEO at ImmuniWeb and Attorney-at-Law in Washington, DC) to explore practical legal frameworks that protect your career while maintaining operational security effectiveness.

Takeaways: 
- Identify specific personal liability risks under current regulatory frameworks. 
- Master incident response protocols that protect both organization and individual standing. 
- Recognize critical gaps in cybersecurity insurance that leave practitioners exposed. 
- Develop strategies demonstrating due care to mitigate personal legal exposure. 
- Balance technical security requirements with evolving legal obligations.

Navigate Personal Liability Risks in Today's Cybersecurity Landscape

The current data security and privacy protection landscape is awash with tools, acronyms, buzzwords that promise to make data breaches and privacy incidents a thing of the past. Yet hotel chains, healthcare providers, banks, department stores and even governments constantly fall victim to data breaches, ransomware or nation-state attacks. 

The plain truth is that tools are only as good as the people that use them and the processes that go with it. Two thousand years ago, the Roman empire had better military tools than the nations they conquered. Yet through time, the Romans fell to the barbarians and are merely remembered through their ruins. Likewise, companies with the latest and most buzzworthy technology implemented still manage to fall victim to attacks. 

In this presentation, industry thought leader Ralph Villanueva will tap into over 15 years’ experience of data security and privacy protection to show why ultimately, the people behind the tools and the processes they use matter more in securing your organization’s data. 

Key Takeaways:
 - How to best deploy tools in the most cost-effective way to optimize benefits.
 - How to best deploy tools to mitigate data security risks from internal and external threats. 
 - The importance of a balanced and holistic approach to data security that equally considers people, processes and technology.

Tools are Nothing: Why People and Process Matter More in Data Security and Privacy

Data visibility, privacy, and governance are entrenched as board-level concerns. Data has never been more valuable, as organizations embrace muti-cloud environments and AI to accelerate innovation and compete more effectively. At the same time, fragmented tools and environments make thwarting increasingly sophisticated risks and meeting expanding regulatory mandates a critical challenge to solve.

Join Krista Case, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at OpenText, and Phil Sewell, Strategic Security Architect, as they explore how to build a unified data security foundation that strengthens resilience, compliance, and trust.

Key topics covered in this session include:

•Practical steps to reduce data risk across hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystems
•Strategies to simplify compliance while enabling responsible data use
•How unified platforms can close data discovery, protection, and governance gaps while lowering operational complexity

Attendees will leave with a roadmap to make data security and privacy a catalyst for growth, protecting what matters most and complying with data privacy requirements while empowering the business to move faster, smarter, and safer.

Securing Data in a Multi-Cloud, Risk-Centric, and AI-Driven World

Data security has entered a new era, one defined by AI-powered threats, expanding cloud ecosystems, and evolving global privacy regulations. 

This session presented by TD Bank's Pankul Chitrav explores the critical shifts reshaping how organisations must protect sensitive information in a boundaryless digital world. We will break down the top risks, the essential capabilities of modern security architectures, and the must-have tools for protecting data across endpoints, cloud platforms, and AI workflows. From zero trust to automated posture management and advanced data discovery, you’ll learn what’s required to stay ahead of adversaries and maintain compliance. Whether you’re modernising your security program or building one from the ground up, this talk equips you with the insights needed to create a future-ready data protection strategy for 2025 and beyond.

Future-Ready Data Protection: Securing Modern Data Ecosystems in an AI-Driven World

Cyberattacks are continuing at pace and we're regularly hearing of new data breaches. But who is responsible for ensuring the security of personal data? 

Traditional data protection approaches are failing against modern attack vectors. Organizations need future-ready strategies that go beyond compliance checkboxes to create resilient security frameworks. In this session, we'll explore the current risks to personal data & privacy and delve into the range of models that can be used to protect your organizations critical assets.

This webinar will take you through examples of recent data breaches, identifying the challenges being experienced, learning from what went wrong and how best organizations can plan for the future. Such planning will investigate current good practice, adding some “steroids” to them such that organizations can hopefully stay in front of the next “breach”!

Steve Yates – Chairman of the Resilience Association, will share frontline experience about critical data assets security and protection of user privacy.  

Key Takeaways:

- Be aware of the challenges being experienced in the protection of data security & privacy;
- Understand how best to plan your data resources and capacity to meet tomorrow’s defense;
- Discover the core organizational elements needed for the establishment of a strategic, tactical and operational solution

Strengthen Data Security Strategy for Tomorrow's Resilience Defense

2025 Data Security and Privacy Summit

AI and cloud have changed the game—traditional security models can’t keep up. CISOs and IT leaders face a critical challenge: securing sensitive data in a decentralized, AI-powered environment.

Join Forcepoint’s Chief Data Strategy Officer, Ronan Murphy, and Liberty University's Director of IT Security, Brian Johnson, for a strategic briefing to learn how forward-thinking organizations are staying ahead and how Data Security Everywhere (DSE) enables adaptive, holistic protection.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why legacy models break in an AI-powered world
• How DSE simplifies compliance and reduces complexity
• Real-world strategies to secure your most valuable asset—data

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