The Gene Simmons of Data Protection: Protegrity’s KISS Method

Today, we are kicking off a new series on the podcast, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection – the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. Protegrity is AI-powered data security for data consumption, offering fine grain data protection solutions, so you can enable your data security, compliance, sharing and analytics.

Episode Title: KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid): A Data Security Dilemma with James Rice

In this episode, we are talking with James Rice, VP at Protegrity. He is going to help us strip away the nonsense, when it comes to securing data, and help us understand why we don’t need a fortress… just a kill switch. While companies throw billions at firewalls, AI driven threat detection, and fortress like defenses – attackers still find their way in. James reminds us to keep it simple, with Protegrity’s KISS Method  which stands for Keep It Simple Stupid – and how when data is useless to attackers, breaches become mere inconveniences instead of existential threats.

Questions:

• What exactly is the KISS method, and how does it apply to cybersecurity?
• Why are traditional cybersecurity approaches failing to stop breaches?
• What are some of the biggest myths about security that lead businesses to waste money on ineffective defenses?
• How do encryption, tokenization, and de-identification work together to make stolen data useless?
• Can you share an example where a company’s focus on complex security backfired, and how a simpler approach could have helped?
• What’s the biggest pushback you hear from companies hesitant to adopt a simpler, data-first security model?
•  If a company wanted to implement the KISS method tomorrow, what are the first three steps they should take?

Links

• https://www.protegrity.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesrice1/