Data Security in the Age of AI: Cohesity CEO and President Sanjay Poonen

But how do you do that for everyone? I mean, just say government, right? Every agency is different.

So is it different for everyone or do you try to put one layer that's all the same? I mean, I'm sure that's what you try to do.

I don't know if you get there.

Yeah, everything in life is complex until you start putting into categories.

So typical data, like I described, even at the raw level, you could think of it as structured or unstructured.

Now let's go a little deeper beyond that.

Typically, inside that, you'll see formats that look like this.

So I'll go a little bit technical, but not too technical.

There's a notion of what's called a virtual machine.

That's a concept that was at VMware that VMware invented.

So typically, a lot of data exists inside a virtual machine.

So we can go and get that data because we built some very strong integration into various forms of virtual machine, VMware being the biggest of them.

The second form of data we typically see is databases, and there could be tens of different types of databases, but common ones are Oracle or Microsoft or MongoDB and so on.

The third form of data we typically see is files.

Think of files like a PDF file or a Word document.

And the fourth are some application, like a Salesforce or a Microsoft 365 or a Google Workspace.

So those are typically the four buckets of data.

And if we go to one department, let's say in the defense side or on the civilian side, you'll typically find those four, okay? Not much variance.

So we'll go and work with many of your CTOs or CIOs of those departments.

We'll work with your teams that have that infrastructure, be able to identify where that data is.

The exact data might be different in each department, but they're typically in one of those forms, a virtual machine, a database, a file, or some other application.

And we take that data, we build connectors to all of that data, ingest that data into a secure platform that typically sits in one of the government's enterprise locations, secure, classified, high level of security capabilities.

Once that security is ready, now we're ready for AI.

Okay, that's what I was going to ask you.

I hope everyone