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Jon Villanti

Oct 13, 2026

ErnieHOST
29:41
I think
29:43
my mind goes everywhere and nowhere all at the same time.
29:46
It's such a broad area that is not well understood by many.
29:54
So I think that the power of AI, we have to realize that you have to use AI to gain or maintain your competitive advantage.
30:04
Absolutely have to.
30:05
And we have to move beyond the use of generative AI in most operational use cases.
30:10
Generative AI is great for sales, marketing, writing policies, procedures, things of that nature, getting a better email out the door.

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ErnieHOST
39:06
So you obviously have a really cool background, you know, so how do we get from, well, how do we get from young John to F-16s to a bank CISO? Like, how did you get into cybersecurity?

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