Compass IT Compliance Free Webinar: Shadow AI: Governing the Tools Your Employees Already Use

Overview:

Employees across every department are adopting AI tools faster than most organizations can track, let alone govern, often without realizing the data they're feeding into these tools or the risks they're introducing. This creates significant blind spots around data exposure, regulatory compliance, and third-party risk, especially as more AI tools quietly integrate with existing business systems. This webinar covers practical methods for identifying what AI tools are already in use across your organization, how to assess the risks each one introduces, and how to build governance policies that protect the organization without stifling the productivity gains employees are chasing. We'll also address how to have these conversations with employees and leadership in a way that encourages transparency rather than driving AI use further underground. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for bringing visibility and control to AI usage across their organization before it becomes a bigger liability.

Speaker BIO:

CJ Hurd is Chief Operating Officer with Compass IT Compliance. CJ holds over 20 years of experience across the information technology and cybersecurity landscape. He retired from the Coast Guard in 2018 after 21 years of active-duty service, where he was named the Coast Guard's Information Security Officer of the year in 2015, 2016, and 2017, as well as being named the Department of Homeland Security’s Information Security Officer of the year in 2016. CJ holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE) certifications. In his role at Compass IT Compliance, CJ leads a team of Virtual CISOs that work with organizations of all sizes and across varying industries to develop, implement, enhance, and manage their cybersecurity programs. Serving as an organization’s Virtual CISO, members of CJ’s team oversee the strategic and operational aspects of the Information Security Program as well as work to identify and remediate realized or potential security threats within an organization’s environment.