St. Louis Cybersecurity Conference

Every CISO faces the same pressure: the business wants AI everywhere, yesterday. The instinct is to slow it down, lock it down, approve one tool, and block the rest. But that approach is failing – employees find workarounds, shadow tools multiply, and security loses visibility entirely.

Naman Ambavi is the founder of Oximy, the system of record for enterprise AI usage. Oximy analyzes millions of AI requests every day across enterprises in financial services, healthcare, and tech. In this session, Naman shares what separates CISOs who are stuck playing defense from those who’ve become AI enablers for their organizations.

He’ll introduce a visibility-first framework that lets security say “safe yes”; governing AI usage without blocking productivity. Attendees will leave with a practical playbook for enabling AI adoption while maintaining the control and visibility their role demands

Let’s get honest for a second. You’ve spent years — and a small fortune — building a security stack that protects your data. Firewalls? Check. DLP? Check. CASB? Check. You’ve got more acronyms than a government agency. And yet, roughly 80% of your organization’s data — the unstructured stuff living in file shares, cloud drives, email attachments, and that one SharePoint site nobody wants to claim ownership of — is essentially invisible to all of it.

That’s not a minor gap. That’s the gap. And it’s exactly where breaches happen, where compliance audits turn into nightmares, and where regulators are increasingly pointing their flashlights.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: your DLP isn’t broken. It’s just flying blind. You can’t protect what you can’t classify, and you can’t classify what you can’t see. Most DSPM solutions will tell you where your data lives. That’s nice. But knowing you have 4.2 million files on a server doesn’t help you sleep at night. Knowing which of those files contain PII, PHI, PCI, or your CEO’s fantasy football spreadsheet labeled “Q3 Strategy” — that’s what actually matters.

In this session, we’ll cut through the noise and show you how AI-powered data classification is solving the harder half of the DSPM equation — the unstructured half — without ripping and replacing the tools you already have. We’ll walk through real-world scenarios from regulated industries (healthcare, financial services, insurance — yes, the fun ones) and demonstrate how mid-market organizations are classifying over a billion documents, integrating with their existing security stack, and finally giving their compliance teams something to smile about. Or at least stop stress-eating.

You’ll walk away with:

• A clear understanding of why unstructured data is the actual risk — not the structured data your current tools already handle
• A practical framework for evaluating DSPM solutions that goes beyond vendor slide decks and buzzword bingo
• A live look at how AI classification works at scale — no black boxes, no magic, just results
• Proof that you don’t need an enterprise budget to solve an enterprise-sized problem

Bring your skepticism. We like it.