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CDW Executive SummIT: What Keeps IT Leaders Up at Night?
Ever wondered what keeps IT leaders up at night? We asked experts this question at the September CDW Executive SummIT in Las Vegas. In response, CDW's Ben Weiss, Walt Powell, Paul Zajdel, Aaron McCray, Dom Daidone and Andrew Young shared their biggest 3 a.m. worries. From rogue artificial intelligence agents with privileged access to ethical blind spots in model deployment and poor data hygiene, the risks are growing as fast as AI's potential.
Here are the three biggest concerns organizations should prioritize, and a few practical ways leaders can protect critical systems.
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Participants
Ben Weiss, Vice President of Digital Product, CDW
Walt Powell, Lead Field CISO, CDW
Paul Zajdel, Vice President and General Manager, Data and Analytics, CDW
Aaron McCray, Field CISO, CDW
Dom Daidone, Cybersecurity Solution Strategist, CDW
Andrew Young, Hybrid Infrastructure Strategy Lead, CDW
Video Highlights
- IT leaders are losing sleep over how to balance artificial intelligence innovation with control
- CDW experts say enforcing data governance is key to making sure AI use cases are effective and ethical.
- Worry No. 1: Rogue AI agents with privileged access
- Worry No. 2: AI deployments that lack ethics and data governance
- Worry No. 3: Poor data hygiene and metadata management
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