Key takeaways
Host: Kieran Norton, principal, Transformation & Emerging Technology Market Offering Leader, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Presenters: Jane Chung, managing director, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Clifford Goss, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Chris Knackstedt, managing director, Deloitte & Touche LLP
1.0 Overview CPE credit | Information Technology
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) applications and their capabilities are evolving at a blistering pace, positioning AI to transform cybersecurity and business operations. How can organizations leverage cybersecurity and automation for AI transformation? We’ll discuss:
- Governance for managing AI life cycle and trust operations, enabling responsible and ethical use of AI
- Orchestration tools for simplifying AI model management and enhancing data quality, safety, and security
- AI-ready DevSecOps architecture to address the AI attack surface and development process for bolstered security
Meet the speakers
Kieran Norton
Kieran, a principal at Deloitte & Touche LLP, is the US Cyber AI & Automation Leader for Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory. With a deep technology background, a broad range of experience over a more than 20-year career, and a focus on tackling emerging risks, Kieran provides clients with strategic yet pragmatic perspectives on cybersecurity and technology risk management. Internally, Kieran leads Deloitte’s AI transformation efforts for the US Cyber practice, as well as the design, development and go-to-market efforts for AI and automation solutions that assist our clients in transforming their cyber capabilities as well as enabling AI/GenAI adoption while mitigating the nuanced risks associated with Gen AI technologies. Externally, Kieran helps clients transform their traditional security approaches to enable digital transformation, supply chain modernization, speed to market, cost reduction, and other business imperatives through the exploitation of modern technology capabilities and platforms. Kieran has been a leader in Deloitte’s Cyber practice for 20 years and has held leadership roles in Cyber Threat Management, Mobile Security, Infrastructure and Cloud Security, and Emerging Technology & Strategy.
Jane Chung
Jane Chung, Ph.D., is a distinguished managing director and leader of the Cyber AI & Automation practice within Deloitte & Touche LLP's Cyber & Strategic Risk group. She leads the offering development and delivery of automation solutions that integrate AI and ML for predictive analytics and enhanced cybersecurity. With over 25 years of experience, she has a track record of creating and executing innovative go-to-market strategies and generating revenue growth with cloud service providers. Jane is adept at attracting, inspiring, and retaining top talent for high-performance sales, service, and business development roles. She skillfully leverages Ecosystem & Alliance relationships to position advanced technology and services in the market. Driven by a passion for education, Jane recently earned her Ph.D. in Technology and Information Management, with a focus on cybersecurity, motivated by the imperative to automate cloud development processes and eliminate redundancies. Her dissertation, which focuses on DevSecOps Metrics, Benefits, and Improvement, addresses a critical gap in academic literature concerning metrics related to benefits, ROI, and the investments needed to enhance software development security. Additionally, Jane holds certifications as a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and a Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI), and she possesses a Master of Science degree in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance. Beyond her professional endeavors, Jane is dedicated to supporting hands-on education for underserved communities. She actively collaborates with the City Peace Project, an initiative that provides educational opportunities for low-income children in Silicon Valley. In her personal time, Jane enjoys spending time with her family and her father, Dr. Chung.
Clifford Goss
Clifford has served financial services industry clients at Deloitte for nearly 20 years. He is Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory’s artificial intelligence (AI) leader for financial services. In this capacity, he helps clients stand up, or enhance, their AI risk management programs. By strengthening and stitching together model risk, data risk, cyber risk, legal/compliance/ethics, and technology risk management programs, he is helping his clients develop end-to-end AI lifecycle risk management programs. Additionally, for nearly 15 years, he’s helped his clients prepare for and understand regulatory expectations with respect to modeling and model risk management (MRM). In this effort, he has helped institutions stand up their MRM governance and operating frameworks; create model documentation for legacy models; conduct model validation for a wide range of models, from anti-money laundering to asset and liability management; and perform “mock” regulatory assessments to identify potential regulatory pain points. Clifford regularly presents various topics within MRM at industry conferences. He holds a Ph.D. in economics, a Masters in accountancy (with CPA), and has served as a part-time professor at UNC-Charlotte’s Belk College of Business.
Chris Knackstedt
Chris has more than 20 years of experience planning, building and running enterprise programs leveraging nascent and emerging technologies. He serves as a technical leader for Deloitte’s quantum cyber readiness practice where he evaluates technology solutions and builds them into client services. Chris also leads Deloitte's cyber analytics practice within the Cyber Detect & Respond business. Chris's background is in data science, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and he leverages this expertise to identify solutions and accelerators to help with organizational transformation and program optimization efforts.
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