Name
Guardians of the AI Galaxy: Provenance, Pedigree and Zero Trust
Session Type
Speaker Session
Date & Time
Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
Description

In an era where AI feels like a tidal wave poised to revolutionize every corner of the tech landscape, it’s easy to feel like we need to reinvent the wheel within our organizations. But what if the key to embracing AI isn’t a sweeping overhaul but rather the foundations we already have? This session invites you to a journey that demystifies integrating AI into your organization by establishing the provenance and pedigree of your AI systems and applying zero-trust principles to their authentication and authorization.

Whether you’re engineering solutions, crafting code as a developer or architecting robust systems, this session speaks your language. It’s designed for software architects, engineers and technologists—those on the front lines of implementing and securing AI systems.

We’ll explore why embracing AI doesn’t mean bidding farewell to your current operational strategies. Instead, we’ll dive into how the pillars of good data governance—think data provenance, pedigree, and the robust zero trust framework (as defined by NIST 800-207)—are surprisingly your best allies in welcoming AI into your realm. You’ll learn to navigate AI with a focus on the Data Plane, Control Plane, and Policy Enforcement Point, ensuring your AI systems are secure, verifiable and aligned with your existing information management principles.

Expect to walk away with insights that empower you to harness AI’s potential without the fear of needing a massive operational makeover. This session promises to be an enlightening exploration of how the basics you’re already familiar with are the secret sauce to thriving in the AI era. Join us for a candid, jargon-free conversation on making AI work for you, not against you, by building a system that ensures the right eyes see the right data, with its lineage and authority traced precisely. Let’s navigate these new horizons together, leveraging what we know to unlock what’s next.

We will strip back the complexities and get down to the essentials of integrating AI into your organization.

Key Takeaways:

  • Unlocking the First Principles: We start by exploring the bedrock of information access management within your organization. It's all about ensuring the correct keys are in the right hands.
  • Demystifying Data Provenance and Pedigree - Ever wonder about your data's backstory? We'll define and unwrap these concepts, showing you how to trace your data's lineage like a seasoned genealogist.
  • The Zero Trust Expedition: We’ll decode the concept of zero trust by exploring NIST 800-207. No, it's not about skepticism; it's about assuming nothing and verifying everything, especially in AI.
  • Navigating the AI Landscape - Learn how to apply the Data Plane, Control Plane, and Policy Enforcement Point to your AI systems. Think of it as setting up the ultimate navigation system for your AI journey.
  • Bridging the Old and New: Discover how to marry existing information management principles with the zero-trust model in your AI systems. It’s like renewing your vows but with your data security strategy.
  • The Art of AI Security: We’ll explore applying field-based authentication and zero-trust to AI Models, vector databases and more. Let’s explore ways to make our AI as safe as Fort Knox.
  • Introducing the Neural Gatekeeper: Imagine a guard wielding the power of authentication, authorization and knowledge mapping at the entry of your AI systems. We'll unveil a new concept that allows you to ask critical questions about data use and access within your AI systems.
Bill Bensing