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Episode Summary

AI agents are now touching enterprise data at a scale and speed no legacy DLP tool was designed for. This week, Brandon Krieger talks with Gidi Cohen — CEO and Co-Founder of Bonfy.AI, and the former 21-year CEO of Skybox Security — about what he calls “AI usage control”: governing how AI systems and agents actually access and use sensitive data, before exposure happens rather than after.

Episode Notes

AI agents are now touching enterprise data at a scale and speed no legacy DLP tool was designed for. This week, Brandon Krieger talks with Gidi Cohen — CEO and Co-Founder of Bonfy.AI, and the former 21-year CEO of Skybox Security — about what he calls “AI usage control”: governing how AI systems and agents actually access and use sensitive data, before exposure happens rather than after.

Topics include:

• Building — and later watching — Skybox Security's 21-year run and 2025 shutdown
• Founding Bonfy with ex-Idaptive CEO Danny Kibel and raising a $9.5M seed round
• Why traditional DLP models weren't built for AI-driven data risk
• What “AI usage control” is, and why it's becoming its own security category
• “Shadow AI” vs. “Shady AI” — the overlooked risk hiding in already-approved tools

Guest: Gidi Cohen — CEO and Co-Founder, Bonfy.AI
Host: Brandon Krieger — CEO & vCISO Advisor

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