ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Kaarthick Subramanian says AI initiatives rarely fail on model quality. They fail on foundations, governance, and adoption. Now Chief Customer Officer and CISO at Atlas Systems, he treats every AI agent as an identity that needs access, monitoring, and a SOC.
He walks Matt through turning technology risk into business risk, why a partner wants the customer to win, and how shedding fear of a job title frees you to build a craft. Across his career, the real work was always the business problem behind the technology.
Topics discussed:
- Why AI initiatives fail on governance and adoption
- Turning technology risk into business risk for the board
- Treating every AI agent as an identity
- Sequencing identity, visibility, and monitoring in AI security
- What separates a true partner from a vendor
- Building AI guardrails at the architecture level
- Losing the fear that keeps careers stuck
- Loving your craft instead of your company
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