Unlocking Enterprise AI with Xerox CISO Viswa Vinnakota

Enterprise Software Defenders

On the 7th episode of Enterprise Software Defenders, hosts Evan Reiser and Mike Britton, both executives at Abnormal Security, talk with Viswa Vinnakota, Chief Information Security Officer at Xerox. Xerox is a foundational computing and technology company with over 20,000 employees and multiple spinoff companies operating at the frontier of modern technology. In this conversation, Viswa shares his thoughts on enterprise adoption of AI, the growing implications of AI’s accessibility, and AI’s impact on the future of cybersecurity.
Quick hits from Viswa:
On enterprise companies and AI adoption strategy: “When your employees and businesses start adopting generative AI or any kind of AI technologies,, we should always start with the policy. Security is just one part of AI’s risk, but there are a lot of things beyond security. Privacy issues, data security issues, and the ethical use of AI. So as an organization, it's not one person's job to decide how you need to use generative AI.”
On AI’s rapid accessibility: “AI has been there for many years. The biggest change [in the last year] is it's available to everybody. It used to be more of a privileged thing in the past where only certain products had that capability to even build AI into their capabilities, and it's open and accessible to everybody. That shift is bringing new security challenges, and how do we mitigate the risks of adoption of AI within the organization.”
On AI’s potential impact on cybersecurity: “The speed at which you respond to your cyber attacks is definitely important, what we call defensive AI. You can use AI to defend your organizations, especially around how you analyze the incidents, threat intelligence, and collecting the threat intelligence. You can leverage AI in order to generate some patterns that can help you quickly do your analysis and respond back to the threats that you're actively facing in the organization. It definitely brings efficiency.”
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Enterprise Software Defenders is produced by Josh Meer.