RSAC 2024: Getting Smart About AI Use in Security Management

Brian Vecci, Field CTO at Varonis, joins Dark Reading's Terry Sweeney at News Desk during RSA Conference to discuss how organizations large and small are making greater use of AI assistants like copilots to help with common tasks and research.

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Brian Vecci, Field CTO at Varonis, joins Dark Reading's Terry Sweeney at News Desk during RSA Conference to discuss how organizations large and small are making greater use of AI assistants like copilots to help with common tasks and research. Vecci creates some security context around these technology darlings and shares some insights and concerns he’s heard from CISOs. Vecci offers some guidance around how to roll out generative AI tools that keep users, data, and their organizations safe. And he talks about his company’s AI tool, Athena AI, and how it can improve a company’s security posture.

As Field CTO at Varonis, Brian Vecci supports a wide range of security and technology initiatives. In his 20-year technical career, Brian has served as a developer, tech architect, engineer, and product manager for companies in financial services, legal, and cybersecurity.

About the Author

Terry Sweeney, Contributing Editor

Terry Sweeney is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor who has covered technology, networking, and security for more than 20 years. He was part of the team that started Dark Reading and has been a contributor to The Washington Post, Crain's New York Business, Red Herring, Network World, InformationWeek and Mobile Sports Report.

In addition to information security, Sweeney has written extensively about cloud computing, wireless technologies, storage networking, and analytics. After watching successive waves of technological advancement, he still prefers to chronicle the actual application of these breakthroughs by businesses and public sector organizations.


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