Surprising Ease that AI Models Can be Poisoned, Cloud Breach Facts, and File Share Cleanup Challenges: Robert Smallwood with Kaan Vulcan

Robert Smallwood talks with Kaan Vulcan, founder and CEO of PurgeRot, about why unmanaged file shares have become a critical business, cybersecurity, and AI-governance issue. They explore the rising cost of cloud storage, the risks created by duplicate, outdated, and overexposed content, and why organizations can no longer afford to feed every file into AI tools such as Copilot.

Kaan explains how a curated, well-classified data environment can improve AI accuracy, reduce storage and security costs, and limit exposure to emerging risks such as model poisoning and agentic AI misalignment. The conversation also looks ahead at the changing role of information governance professionals, the return of more precise classification, and what it will take to keep data useful, secure, and ready for an AI-powered future.