Yesterday’s guardrails won’t protect against tomorrow’s AI risks
Veeam partnered with ITWeb recently to host an executive roundtable focusing on trusted AI and data resilience.
The speaker at an executive roundtable on trusted AI and data resilience in Johannesburg discussed the potential dangers of advanced AI, emphasizing that current security measures are inadequate to protect against future threats. Nerushka Bowan, technology and privacy lawyer, stated that AI-enabled threats have expanded their reach to both virtual and physical domains, with tools like AI glasses being misused.
Andre Troskie, EMEA field CISO at Veeam, pointed out that the World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 projects AI to be the leading driver of change in cybersecurity in the near future, with AI vulnerabilities increasing rapidly. The WEF Global Risks Report 2026 ranked adverse outcomes of AI among the top 10 short-term risks, with its ranking significantly increasing over time.
Troskie stressed that agentic AI represents both a significant opportunity and an enormous threat, accelerating at an unprecedented pace. He emphasized that organizations need to adapt and manage data resilience and trusted AI faster than AI-powered attacks, as yesterday's security systems will not be sufficient to safeguard against tomorrow's challenges.
Veeam introduced its new DataAI Command Platform, a comprehensive data and AI trust infrastructure designed to secure data, govern AI, and automate compliance in the era of agentic AI. This solution provides a unified platform with features such as data security, governance, privacy, compliance, and resilience. The platform enables organizations to discover and classify sensitive data, identify exposed data, and monitor AI systems for risky behavior.
It also allows for prioritizing and resolving high-risk data exposures and establishing controls to regulate data access, usage, and sharing. Troskie highlighted that the DataAI Command Platform, launched after Veeam's acquisition of Securiti AI, integrates data security posture management with Veeam's resilience solutions. This makes it the most complete solution currently available to address tomorrow's data resilience and AI challenges.
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