The Partnerships Taking on AI Security: Daniel Bernard, CrowdStrike Chief Business Officer

About this episode

Daniel Bernard discusses the importance of partnerships in addressing AI security risks and the initiatives being undertaken in the industry.

The previous episode of the Adversary Universe podcast explored the “vuln-pocalypse” and the implications of advanced AI models accelerating vulnerability discovery and exploitation. Now, we’re diving into how companies are working together to face these evolving security risks.CrowdStrike Chief Business Officer Daniel Bernard spends much of his time talking with partners and customers about how to address their growing concerns: Is their business protected? Do they know which vulnerabilities are in their environment? What do they do about them?In this episode, Daniel joins Adam and Cristian to discuss why it takes an ecosystem of partners to answer these questions and help each business evaluate risk. He sheds light on the newly expanded Project Quiltworks — CrowdStrike’s coalition for securing frontier AI risk — as well as Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber as initiatives the industry needs in this critical time.“It feels like right now we’re at this fever-pitch moment ... where we’re going to do more patching in the next 6-12 months than we’ve probably done in the last 6-12 years," he says in this episode.To handle this, partner efforts are…

People in this episode

Hosts: Adam, Cristian

Guest: Daniel Bernard

Topics covered

• AI security
• vulnerability management
• partnerships in cybersecurity
• Project Quiltworks
• CISO conversations
• risk evaluation

Keywords

• AI
• security
• vulnerabilities
• partnerships
• Project Quiltworks
• CISO
• risk management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CrowdStrike, Anthropic, OpenAI

Products: Project Quiltworks, Project Glasswing, Trusted Access for Cyber

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