Protecting data and minimizing threats with Microsoft’s Sarah Armstrong-Smith

In brief:

• When we're talking about cyber-attacks, data breaches, intellectual property theft, whichever way you want to look at it, ultimately it'll come down to one thing, which is effective data governance.
• A couple of months ago Microsoft actually issued some research in conjunction with Open AI, as we're talking about ChatGPT. What we identified, if we took some of the larger nation state actors, they're using these models to do reconnaissance.
• We are over five years since GDPR has come into being and other regulations around the world are all coming up to a varying degrees. Has it made any difference? I'm not sure. Arguably, I think it's going to have to get much worse before it gets better.

n this VISION by Protiviti interview, Protiviti’s Roland Carandang, Managing Director in the London office and one of the firm’s global leaders for innovation, security and privacy, sits down with Sarah Armstrong-Smith, Microsoft’s Chief Security Advisor for Europe, Middle East and Africa, independent board advisor and author of Understand the Cyber Attacker Mindset: Build a Strategic Security Programme to Counteract Threats. The two discuss Microsoft’s data governance strategies in the face of elevated risk, the impact of AI and emerging technology and what steps business leaders should be talking to build out a strategic security plan.