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Safe Enough? When AI Ambition Outruns Governance & Readiness | Wake Up S02E02

Season 2, Ep. 2

Autonomy without trust is exposure.


In this episode of Wake Up, the podcast by Veeam, host Rick Vanover speaks with Avinash Ramesh, Managing Director of Secure AI and Data Protection at Accenture, about what it really takes to scale AI responsibly — and why most organizations are moving faster than their foundations can support.


Together they explore why AI doesn't create new weaknesses but amplifies the ones already there, what it means to treat AI as an identity, and how leaders can make confident progress without putting their organizations in the exposed zone.


Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, combining data protection, security, and AI to help organizations keep their data available, trusted, and recoverable across every environment. With smart protection, dependable threat detection, and trusted cyber extortion readiness and response, Veeam ensures confidence before, during, and after cyber events.


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