PET Shorts & Data Sorts

Discussion Highlights with Kenneth Bible, CISO @ U.S. Department of Homeland Security (recently retired)*AI Impact: Ken shares how artificial intelligence, particularly Generative AI, impacts cybersecurity and data privacy.*Collaboration: Partnerships between cybersecurity, privacy, and legal are crucial for addressing concerns that exist in both cybersecurity and civil rights communities. *Zero Trust: What this means and how it applies to AI.*Securing the AI Environment: Addressing challenges of securing where AI models are trained.*Adopting AI Monitoring Tools: Observability and alerting mitigate against the risks of GenAI, LLMs, and machine learning.*Opportunities for Productivity: Despite risks, embracing AI offers opportunities for productivity and efficiency improvements, particularly in mission critical areas.*Story Time: Ken shares a story from his past about conceptualizing the tactical cloudlet, highlighting industry's response to military needs and the evolution of edge computing.*Leadership and Legacy: Discussion around the importance of creating and fostering new leaders in the cybersecurity field.************I’m speaking at the Privacy Enhancing Technology Summit in NYC in MayWant to attend? Send me a message on LinkedIn.Thank you for reading our show notes. Sending hugs and high fives!

Discussion Points with Bjorn Austraat, Top AI Voice on LinkedIn*Background as an “AI Veteran” -  Bjorn’s background in AI, from early work in machine translation to contributions to IBM's Watson and roles at Wells Fargo and Truist.*Elegant Simplicity - The importance of effectively translating between business executives and data scientists to improve project success rates and the idea of “Elegant Simplicity” to reduce unnecessary complexity and to enhance understanding and decision making.*Communication in AI - Challenges of defining AI and the importance of creating a common language between technical and business teams for effective collaboration.*The 4D Framework -  Dollars, Data, Differentiation, and Deployability to evaluate AI ideas, prioritize, and scale across large organizations.*Measuring the 4Ds -  Standardizing measures for the 4Ds to make objective decisions about AI projects while reducing emotional bias.*Model Governance and Communication - Using the 4D framework for governance and how effective communication is key to successful project management and regulatory compliance.*Adapting to Generative AI Innovations - Reflections on the rapid advancements in Generative AI and the necessity for leaders to confidently navigate changes and innovations.*AI Observability – MLOps, the importance of responsible AI, and how a monitoring and explainability layer through Fiddler.AI can be used*Communication Strategies for Long-term Projects - Insights into maintaining engagement and relevance through strategic communication throughout the lifecycle of AI projects.*Enterprise AI Strategy - Outlining the 5 main components of a comprehensive enterprise AI strategy, emphasizing the importance of considering the end-to-end model lifecycle.*Build vs. Buy Decision Making - Thoughts on deciding when to build in-house solutions versus partnering or buying, based on the core relevance to the business. Relevant links, posts, and articles referenced in the podcast:Bjorn’s LinkedIn profileThe AI NexusAI Strategy in a boxProject sourcing, sifting, sequencing: 4Ds, Disruptive vs. Incremental Innovation, Horizon 1/2/3 thinkingEvident AI IndexRecommended Conference: Evident AI Symposium Recommended Books:Four Thousand Weeks - Time Management for MortalsSave the Cat! *********** I’m speaking at the Privacy Enhancing Technology Summit in NYC in MayWant a free ticket? Send me a message on LinkedIn and I’ll hook you up! Thank you for reading our show notes. Sending hugs and high fives!

Top Takeaways from Adhiraj Saxena, Privacy Enhancing Technologies at IMDA and Personal Data Protection Commission SingaporeHelp regulators understand how, why, and where sensitive data flowsUse cases must be the driver of any PET-related discussionsPET-based systems should have governance controlsThe community will work towards standards and best practices How fully homomorphic encryption, synthetic data, secure multiparty compute, and trusted execution enclaves are being usedMastercard Case Study - IMDA PET Sandbox:Preventing Financial Fraud Across Different Jurisdictions with Secure Data CollaborationsMeta Case Study - IMDA PET Sandbox:Digital Advertising in a Paradigm without 3rd Party CookiesReport on Key Insights:Asia Tech x Singapore 2023 Roundtable on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Conferences to attend:Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG) in Singapore | May 2024Please be sure to follow and leave us a review :-)Thank you for reading our show notes. Sending hugs and high fives!

Top Takeaways from Catherine Miller, CTO, at Flatiron HealthProcess, guardrails, and checkpoints can actually speed things upWe think of things like security reviews and business sign-off as adding drag, but they can also act as enablers if done rightDon’t take on all the risk aloneGet others involved and engaged early onThink yes before no -  one of Flatiron’s 10 core valuesUse it to challenge the status quoEmbrace this mentality to climb the corporate ladderImportance of de-identification, safe harbor, and expert determinationWays to leverage synthetic dataConferences to attend:AI Governance Global, an IAPP event in Boston | November 2023Plato Elevate in San Francisco | November 2023Privacy + Security Forum in Washington DC | November 2023 Privacy Enhancing Technology Summit Asia-Pacific in Singapore | November 2023Don't miss out on seeing Cat speak live at Plato Elevate. Details above!Like what you heard today? Please leave us a review :)Thank you for reading our show notes. Sending hugs and high fives!

Top Takeaways from Jonathan Anastasia, Executive VP, Crypto & Security Innovation at Mastercard·       How to secure an entire ecosystem by overlaying technologies·       Ways to build and maintain trust·       Examples of using federated machine learning and homomorphically encrypted queries to share insights across international borders·       Monetizing data with privacy-enhancing technologies Recommended Reading:The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Conferences to attend:AI Governance Global, an IAPP event in Boston | November 2023Privacy + Security Forum in Washington DC | November 2023Privacy Enhancing Technology Summit Asia-Pacific in Singapore| November 2023 If you like what you heard today, please do us a solid and leave us a 5-star review.   To nominate guests and topics to discuss, message on LinkedIn.  Your feedback is welcome and encouraged :)Thank you for reading our show notes. Sending hugs and high fives!

Top Takeaways from Beju Shah, Head of Nordic Centre, BIS Innovation Hub at Bank for International Settlements – BIS  ·       Catalyze change by planting seeds and demonstrating value·       Financial Action Task Force (FATF) identified several approaches and technologies that will transform AML efforts·       Standardized, quality, and comparable data is key·       Full network visibility is required to detect, flag, and stop suspicious activities·       Privacy-Enhancing Technologies drive better AML efforts by creating improved visibilityCheck out the Project Aurora report Beju mentioned during the podcast: Project Aurora - The power of data, technology and collaboration to combat money laundering across institutions and borders – from the BIS Innovation Hub Other Recommended Reading:The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? by Seth GodinThe Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams by Seth GodinConferences to attend:SWIFT’s Sibos in Toronto | September 2023IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. in San Diego | October 2023   Want to meet in person or record an episode together?Send me a message and include your top two actionable takeaways. Thank you for reading our show notes. Sending hugs and high fives!

Top Takeaways from Nishant Bhajaria, ex-Uber, Netflix, Head of EngineeringPrivacy is your competitive differentiatorPrivacy adoption and use within products will grow exponentiallyTrust cannot be quantifiedWe must think about data both holistically and individuallyRecommended Reading:"Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers" by our esteemed guest himself, Nishant BhajariaWant to learn more about privacy, security, and governance?Take one of Nishant’s 11 LinkedIn courses, hereConferences to attend:Privacy Engineering Conference in Santa Clara | September 2023Sibos in Toronto | September 2023IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. in San Diego | October 2023Want to meet in person or record an episode together? Send me a message and include your top two actionable takeaways.Thank you for reading our show notes. Sending hugs and high fives!

Top Takeaways from Dora Boussias, Senior Director of Data Strategy & Architecture Drive relentlessly and consistently with business value in mindBring people alongData strategy is not about the data; it's about the businessHow to be an effective leaderWhy active listening is so importantPeople must be seen, valued, and understoodRecommended Reading:Give and Take by my favorite author, Adam GrantYou can sign up for his newsletter here: https://adamgrant.net/Want to be on the show?Send me a message on LinkedIn and share your top two actionable takeaways.Thank you for reading our show notes. Sending hugs and high fives!

Top Takeaways from Callisto CEO, Tracy DeTomasiOver 90% of sexual assaults on campus are committed by repeat offendersEncryption-based privacy-preserved matching is a safe and secure option for stopping serial perpetrators The Callisto Vault and Matching System empowers survivors and is free to useRecommended Reading:Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College TownNetflix Recommendation:Victim Suspect Support the Cause:Donate Here: https://give.projectcallisto.org/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/callisto/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/callisto-tech-to-combat-sexual-assault/Want to be on The Show?Send me a message on LinkedIn and share your top two actionable takeaways.Thank you for reading our show notes. Sending hugs and high fives!

Top Takeaways from Aaron Weller, Leader of HP's Global Privacy Engineering Center of ExcellenceYour privacy program needs a “Digital to Analog converter” to align privacy lawyers with engineers To start a privacy engineering CoE, be sure to include core engineering, enablement, and privacy experienceMake calculated decisions regarding the tradeoff of data utility and privacyLeverage the MUPPET decision frameworkStructure your approach to abstract detail that is not relevant to achieve a particular outcomeAaron is hiring!Check out this Privacy Enhancing Tech Engineer roleConferences to attend:IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. in San Diego | October 2023I'll be there too so send me a message if you'd like to meet in-person!Recommended Reading:Managing Talented People Want to be on the show? Send me a message and share your top two actionable takeaways.Thank you for reading our show notes. Sending hugs and high fives!