Episode 409 - Who Really Controls Your Data in the Age of AI?
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Episode 409 - Who Really Controls Your Data in the Age of AI?

B2Upper-intermediateDecember 17, 202529 min
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As artificial intelligence reshapes cybersecurity, organizations are being forced to rethink data sovereignty, trust, and resilience. In this episode, we sit down with Adam Gale, Field CTO for Cybersecurity and AI at NetApp, to explore how AI, security, and geopolitics are colliding in today’s digital infrastructure. This conversation goes beyond theory to discuss real-world challenges and decisions organizations are facing right now. \In this episode, we cover: • How AI is being used in modern cybersecurity • Why “human in the loop” still matters for critical decisions • What data sovereignty really means—and why it’s not one-size-fits-all • The role of encryption and key...

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Protecting data is always a hot topic for most people, especially when you start to deal with it on the international level.

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This week, I invite Adam Gale to talk to us all about data sovereignty and how it impacts how you store data in your NetApp systems.

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Protecting data is always a hot topic for most people, especially when you start to deal with it on the international level. So when we talk about that, we talk about things like regulation and things like data sovereignty. This week, I invite Adam Gale to talk to us all about data sovereignty and how it impacts how you store data in your NetApp systems. I'm here in the basement of my house and with me today I have Adam Gale coming all the way

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to us from Dubai. So Adam, what do you do here at NetApp and how do I reach them? I'm a field CTO for cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, which are actually quite intrinsically linked.

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You end up talking about one, you end up talking about the other, as you probably know, with artificial intelligence gaining traction in the cybersecurity world. Yeah, yeah. So let's talk a little bit more about that because I think that's pretty interesting.

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