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Cloud Broke My World Before AI Did with Dr. Jay Abdullah
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Cybersecurity has survived cloud, mobile, and a dozen other "biggest disruptions of our lifetime," and each one felt unprecedented in the moment. In this episode, Ron sits down with Alyssa "Dr. Jay" Abdullah, Deputy CISO at MasterCard, who started her career as a radio DJ and has since worked inside the White House, Lockheed Martin, Stryker, and Xerox before landing in payments security. Ron and Dr. Jay trace her path from spinning records to securing global payment infrastructure, and dig into why she'd argue cloud, not AI, was the real turning point in her career. They cover...
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Would you say that AI is like one of the most disruptive technologies that you've seen throughout your career? I would not say it's the most disruptive. Cell phones at one time were the most transformative thing ever. Cloud flipped everything upside down.
It's kind of tongue in cheek when we say, AI is a huge transformative thing. It is for right now. What does convergence mean for you today?
AI converging with cloud, converging with synthetic identities. Bring all of that together, and I have a recipe for disaster. That same convergence of those things allow us as defenders to process more intelligence.
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