Category: AI

In the first article of this series, I argued that most organizations don’t have an AI problem. They have a data problem. But that’s only a small part of the story. Because even organizations with enormous amounts of data often discover that their AI initiatives struggle for a completely different reason: The organization doesn’t understand…

Every executive meeting seems to have the same question these days: “What is our AI strategy?” It’s a very reasonable question. Artificial Intelligence is advancing rapidly, vendors are embedding AI into nearly every product, and organizations are feeling pressure to demonstrate that they are keeping pace. But after working with data platforms for years, I’ve…

For years, access governance has operated on a simple assumption: Review access periodically and hope the environment hasn’t changed faster than your governance process. That model made sense when: That world is gone. Modern environments change constantly. New: …appear faster than traditional governance processes can evaluate them. Which means the future of governance probably isn’t…

At this point in the series, we’ve talked a lot about visibility, exposure, and risk. And that’s necessary. But eventually, every governance conversation runs into the same wall: “This sounds great… but people still need to get their jobs done.” That tension is real. Because the fastest way to make governance unpopular is to make…

So far in this series, AI has mostly been the thing exposing the problem. And fairly so. AI amplifies access models.It traverses systems quickly.It exposes weak governance faster than most organizations are prepared for. But here’s the part that gets overlooked: AI can also become one of the most effective tools for understanding access complexity.…