Guardians of the Data
Hosted by Ward Balcerzak and Ward · Ward Balcerzak
5.0from 5 ratings
- 64
- Episodes
- 40
- Transcribed
- 5
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Guardians of the Data
Welcome to Guardians of the Data! Join host, Ward Balcerzak, each week as he dives deep into the passions, expertise, and experiences of CISOs, Chief Data Officers, and more. Guardians of the Data is sponsored by Sentra - AI-powered data security platform that discovers and classifies all your data accurately and automatically to achieve enterprise-scale data protection without the fuss.
- Publisher
- Ward Balcerzak
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Jul 2025
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
40 of 64 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Host Gets Hosted ( Reair ) - Ward Balcerzak - Guardians of the Data - Episode # 63
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The AI Data Trap - Guardians of the Data - Episode # 62
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Data Security Is a People Problem - Shanief Webb - Guardians of the Data - Episode # 61
Inside a recent episode
The Host Gets Hosted ( Reair ) - Ward Balcerzak - Guardians of the Data - Episode # 63
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You could try, you could try to still do it, but it's going to be the same thing that we've been doing for years. It's guesswork at that point. You're licking your finger, you're putting in the wind and saying, oh, I think this isn't very risky. So let's take a look back then. Let's take out AI and say, people that did or did not have governance. Do you think that you can have successful AI governance if you don't have data governance without the AI, first and foremost? I think they're tied directly together, right? Yeah, I think they are as well. I think it's a Venn diagram, right? I think it's a Venn diagram where there's circular overlap for sure. […]
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- Dameon Sherman
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