Executives can poke fun at the challenges of adopting AI in an era when companies are looking everywhere for a business win using the latest tools. So when Varonis field CTO Brian Vecci quipped that “every copilot pilot gets stuck in pilot” at a Fortune Brainstorm Tech panel on safeguarding innovation this month, there were plenty of chuckles from the audience. But the joke also underscored a serious problem: companies eager to deploy generative AI tools often slam into the same wall—data security fears.
“It’s very hard to innovate unless the underlying data that you’re innovating on is properly protected,” said Vecci. “We’re trying to make people more productive, we’re trying to use AI and other new technologies, but in order to realize these benefits, it has to be done safely.”
