Ravi Bindra, CISO at SoftwareOne: Cyber comment
“Technology advancements, namely the AI boom, continue to change the data privacy game. As AI evolves, the threat landscape grows increasingly complex, equipping malicious actors with advanced tools to compromise confidential data. As threats grow in scale and severity, compliance with new regulations like the EU’s DORA and NIS2 is business critical, but this must be paired with continued investment into AI and more importantly how to use it responsibly.
“The core challenge is that the speed of technology evolution is outpacing the development and implementation of data governance frameworks and security protocols for businesses to rollout. As such, a priority focus for Data Privacy Day must be on ways to balance AI investment with secure integration. Ensuring that security protocols are baked into all processes to provide employees with clear direction on accepted AI use is key. This should be met with increased AI training for staff, so employees understand their key role in keeping organisational data secure.
“Going one step further, hybrid cloud models can be set up to keep secondary and tertiary backups in other locations, keeping data isolated from threats within internal networks. With so much at stake, from reputational damage to customer and financial loss, protecting sensitive data through AI and cloud investment should be top of the business agenda in 2025.”
Ravi Bindra, CISO at SoftwareOne: General tech comment
“Tech advancement, namely the AI boom, continues to change the data privacy game. AI has fast become a firm fixture at such pace that merely offering AI solutions as a business is no longer a differentiator; however, using the technology responsibly certainly can be. With new regulation set to come into force, particularly the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), not to mention growing public awareness of how much personal data they entrust to businesses, there’s a world of new compliance and moral obligations that all must strive to meet in equal measure.
“The core challenge is that the speed of technology evolution is outpacing the development and implementation of data governance frameworks and security protocols for businesses to rollout. As such, a priority focus for Data Privacy Day must be on ways to balance AI investment with secure integration.
“Ensuring that security protocols are baked into all processes to provide employees with clear direction on accepted AI use. This should be met with increased AI training for staff, so employees understand their key role in keeping organisational data secure.
“Going one step further, hybrid cloud models, can be set up to keep secondary and tertiary backups in other locations, keeping data isolated from threats within internal networks. With so much at stake, from reputational damage to customer and financial loss, protecting sensitive data through AI and cloud investment should be business critical in 2025.”