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Leadership, AI/ML

Balancing AI Opportunities vs. Risks to Drive Better Business Outcomes – Summer Fowler, Matt Muller – BSW #390

This week, it’s double AI interview Monday! In our first interview, we discuss how to balance AI opportunities vs. risk. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize how businesses operate. But with this exciting advancement comes new challenges that cannot be ignored. For proactive security and IT leaders, how do you balance the need of security and privacy in AI with the opportunities that come with accelerating adoption? Matt Muller, Field CISO at Tines, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the unprecedented challenges facing Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and approaches to mitigate AI’s security and privacy risks. In this interview, we’ll discuss ways...

April 9, 2025

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This week, it's double AI interview Monday!

In our first interview, we discuss how to balance AI opportunities vs. risk. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize how businesses operate. But with this exciting advancement comes new challenges that cannot be ignored. For proactive security and IT leaders, how do you balance the need of security and privacy in AI with the opportunities that come with accelerating adoption?

Matt Muller, Field CISO at Tines, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the unprecedented challenges facing Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and approaches to mitigate AI's security and privacy risks. In this interview, we'll discuss ways to mitigate AI's security and privacy risks and strategies to help ease AI stress on security teams.

Segment Resources: - https://www.tines.com/blog/cisos-report-addressing-ai-pressures/ - https://www.tines.com/blog/ai-enterprise-mitigate-security-privacy-risks/

In our second interview, we dig into the challenges of securing Artificial Intelligence. Are you being asked to secure AI initiatives? What questions should you be asking your developers or vendors to validate security and privacy concerns?

Who better to ask than Summer Fowler, CISO at Torc Robotics, a self-driving trucking company. Summer will guide us on her AI security journey to help us understand:

Regulatory requirements regarding AI
Build vs. buy decisions
Security considerations for both build and buy scenarios
Resources to help guide you

Guests

Field CISO at Tines

Matt Muller is an accomplished security leader with over a decade of hands-on experience in cybersecurity. Currently serving as Field CISO at Tines, Matt leverages his deep understanding of security operations and product leadership to shape product and cybersecurity strategies. His extensive background, which includes leadership roles at Coinbase and Material Security, enables him to offer strategic guidance to clients on how to integrate security automation, orchestration, and AI into their organizations, driving stronger defenses and innovation in the rapidly evolving security landscape.

CISO at Torc Robotics

Summer Craze Fowler is a hockey mom who is a CISO in her spare time. She is in her 3rd CISO role serving in this capacity now at Torc Robotics, a self-driving trucking company. Summer teaches cyber governance and metrics at Carnegie Mellon University’s executive education program, and she is adjunct faculty at both Carnegie Mellon and Duquesne University. With a passion for governance, Summer serves on both non- and for-profit boards with The Forte Group and Brentwood Bank. She lives just north of Pittsburgh, PA with her husband and three teenage kids. Thoughts and prayers are welcome!

Hosts

Jason Albuquerque

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