#279 - AI Readiness (with JP Bourget)
From CISO Tradecraft® by G Mark Hardy & Ross Young
April 13, 2026 · 44 min · Episode 279
About this episode
G Mark Hardy and JP Bourget discuss AI readiness for organizations, focusing on data governance and change management challenges.
On CISO Tradecraft, host G Mark Hardy welcomes back JP Bourgeet to discuss what “AI readiness” means for organizations, framing it as both a data governance challenge and a change-management problem. JP defines readiness for CISOs as strong threat protection, data security/governance, and device management, with the biggest gaps typically in labeling, DLP/DSPM, and poor information architecture (e.g., commingled data in SharePoint/Drive). They cover re-architecting past and future data into role-based structures so Copilot can honor permissions and sensitivity labels, plus the value of visibility, auditability, and insider-risk alerting for file access and LLM prompts. JP also discusses agentic systems and upcoming identity challenges for AI agents, compares AI readiness to platform engineering, emphasizes use-case-driven adoption (lunch-and-learns and ROI tracking), and highlights Daniel Miessler’s personal AI infrastructure work and a future shift toward AI-driven security products. JP Bourget's Website https://www.bluecycle.net/ JP Bourget's Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpbourget/ SaltCon- https://naclcon.com/
People in this episode
Host: G Mark Hardy
Guest: JP Bourget
Topics covered
- AI readiness
- data governance
- change management
- threat protection
- data security
- device management
- AI-driven security products
Keywords
- AI readiness
- data governance
- threat protection
- data security
- device management
- insider risk
- role-based structures
- LLM prompts
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: BlueCycle, SaltCon, NACLCon
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