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Ep40 | Virtru + DataXRay - From Discovery to Defense: Governing Sensitive Files at Scale

November 04, 2026

Most of the world’s data is unstructured: files, email, documents, and notes with no fixed format, scattered across drives and platforms. That makes it the hardest data to govern and the easiest to lose track of. Alistair Jones, CTO of DataXRay, and JP Ayyappan, lead product manager for the Virtru Data Security Platform, explain how AI-assisted discovery and classification pair with attribute-based access control and encryption that travels with the file. They also cover why open standards matter when you choose a security platform, and what changes when AI agents start reading everything your organization has ever written.

Takeaways

• Classification comes first. Access policy only works when data is accurately labeled, and that includes the petabytes you already have.
• Use AI where it counts. Rules and lightweight classifiers handle most documents quickly, and LLMs are the final, most expensive tool for the hard cases.
• Protect it where it lives. Tags drive attribute-based access and encryption that stays with the data, and AI agents get the same gates as people.

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