Rick Caccia was born and raised in Silicon Valley - and just stayed. He is married with 2 teenage daughters, one about to go to college. Between him and his wife, they have worked in 13 different startups - so you could say they have a startup family through and through. Outside of tech, he is a cyclist in a bike club, and enjoys spending time with his family.After speaking with a number of security officers at companies, Rick realized the enterprise situation with AI - most companies are stuck, trying to figure out how to enable their employees to use new tooling, while still maintaining the level of security and control they have over data. Rick was asked to join a founding team to solve this problem.This is the creation story of WitnessAI.SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://witness.ai/https://www.linkedin.com/in/rcaccia/Our Sponsors:* Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com* Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORYSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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We started this company thinking about the security of AI use in a way that most security startups also do, and we got it wrong. So we had to revisit and trade some things off. So we looked at this and said, oh, this is going to be like any other new type of security issue. You're going to have new types of attacks. AI-oriented attacks are going to be the big deal.
Let's figure out how to talk about those and prevent them. And then we went out and we talked to maybe a dozen CISOs. And the interesting thing was none of them cared. Nobody cared. They thought that was years away. And instead, they cared about much less sexy things. My name is Rick Katcha. I'm the CEO of Witness AI.
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Get started today at clearquery.io slash code story. Rick Katja was born and raised in Silicon Valley and just stayed. He's married with two teenage daughters, one about to go to college. Between him and his wife, they have worked in 13 different startups. So you could say they have a startup family through and through.
Outside of tech, he's a cyclist in the bike club and enjoys spending time with his family. After speaking with a number of security officers at companies, Rick realized the enterprise situation with AI. Most companies are stuck trying to figure out how to enable their employees to use new tooling while still maintaining the level of security and control they have over data.
Rick was asked to join a founding team to solve this problem. This is the creation story of Witness AI.
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