Tim Freestone

Tim Freestone joined Kiteworks in 2021 and brings over 15 years of experience in marketing and marketing leadership, including demand generation, brand strategy, and process and organisational optimisation. Tim was previously Vice President of Marketing at Contrast Security, a scale-up application security company. Before Contrast, Tim was the Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Fortinet, a multi-billion-dollar, next-generation firewall and cloud security company. Tim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Communication Studies from The University of Montana.

Posts by Tim Freestone:

Ensuring AI comes out of the shadows

Whilst companies are right to encourage their teams to find innovative usages of GenAI to streamline workflows, many employees are using the technology in ways that are not being sanctioned by their employers. It is a phenomenon called shadow AI and is a growing concern.

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Importance of a Zero Trust Approach to GenAI

In an era where machine-generated media holds increasing influence over how we communicate, live, and learn, ensuring accountability will be paramount. Holistically integrating Zero Trust security spanning authentication, authorisation, data validation, process oversight and output controls will be vital to ensure such systems are safeguarded as much as possible against misuse. But what would Zero Trust Generative AI look like? Why is it required? How should it be implemented? And what are the main challenges the industry will have?

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Managing Private Content Exposure Risk in 2024

Managing the privacy and compliance of sensitive content communications is getting more and more difficult for businesses. Cybercriminals continue to evolve their approaches, making it harder than ever to identify, stop, and mitigate the damages of malicious attacks. But, what are the key issues for IT admins to look out for in 2024?

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