RSAC™ Conference 2025: AI data security & governance insights

Another RSAC™ Conference has wrapped up in San Francisco, and what a week it was! From April 28th to May 1st, RSAC™ Conference 2025 was the place to be for critical discussions on data security, privacy, and the transformative – and challenging – impact of AI.

Our Mission at RSAC™ Conference 2025:

Relyance AI attended with clear goals:

• Boost brand awareness in the cybersecurity space.
• Educate the market on our unified platform for data security, privacy, and AI.
• Showcase new offerings: Data Security Posture Management and Data Journeys.
• Build excitement and gather feedback for our upcoming AI Governance release.

Our booth stood out with its unique, minimalist design. Four demo stations were constantly busy, hosting engaging demonstrations between our experts and a diverse stream of attendees – from consultants and journalists to F500 CISOs modernizing their security stacks for the AI era. The energy was high, and the feedback was validating. Hearing one CISO say, "This is exactly what I’ve been looking for!" perfectly captured the market's need for our approach.

RSAC™ Conference 2025 insights: what was top of mind?

Conversations across the Moscone Center converged on key challenges:

• Comprehensive Data & Asset Visibility: Organizations desperately need to see and understand their sensitive data across the entire ecosystem, from source code to cloud storage and everything in between.
• AI Governance: Unsurprisingly, this was paramount. Security leaders are grappling with securing data used in AI, ensuring compliance, and building trust in their AI initiatives.

These challenges led to recurring questions at our booth:

• How is Relyance AI different from other DSPM tools? Attendees saw the need for DSPM but wanted more depth. Our answer highlighted our Multi-Source Contextual Classification, combining database connections, source code analysis, and observability data for a richer, end-to-end view traditional DSPM lacks.
• What is Trust iQ™? Attendees were curious about Relyance AI's advanced intelligence that sits at the core of everything special our platform can do. Trust iQ™ continuously analyzes your systems, data, and business processes in real time to surface actionable insights, automate compliance workflows, and adapt governance to the unique way your organization operates.
• What's the business value and how fast can we deploy? Security leaders need rapid, tangible results. We showed them Relyance AI deploys in hours, not weeks, delivering value through stronger data security, accelerated AI innovation via full visibility, operational efficiency, and proactive risk management.

The dominant industry trends we observed reinforced our strategy: the essential shift from reactive scanning to proactive security by design, the convergence of Security and Privacy Ops, and the stark reality that AI is the new frontier – and threat – for data security and governance. The potential of Autonomous Agents and the risks of unintended actions further emphasized the need for robust controls.

This feedback validated our core message: Security Professionals are actively looking beyond traditional DSPM point tools, which lack visibility into dynamic data flows critical for the AI era.

Addressing the modern security gap

Our platform’s differentiators directly address the market's evolving needs:

• True Data-Centric Security: We focus directly on securing sensitive data, not just the infrastructure, identifying risks based on the data itself.
• Bridging Privacy & Security: We uniquely integrate data sensitivity (privacy) with security posture, enabling holistic risk prioritization and breaking down traditional silos.
• AI-Native Foundation:
  
  • Our Multi-Source Contextual Classification provides unparalleled visibility.
  • Trust iQ™ is the advanced intelligence engine that builds a dynamic, contextual map of your sensitive data relationships- This clearly states what it is (an engine/intelligence) and what it does (builds a dynamic, contextual map of data relationships), drawing directly from the page's core message about mapping and context.
  • Our AI-Native Data Journeys Map visually displays data lineage and access events over time, enabling crucial analysis (like "was this data lawful when used?") that traditional tools cannot.

We were particularly excited by the significant interest in our upcoming AI Governance beta product, confirming the urgent market need for solutions in this space.

Partnering for the future of data security & AI governance

RSAC™ Conference 2025 made it clear: in the AI era, comprehensive, data-centric security is non-negotiable. Organizations need a unified platform that provides deep, contextual visibility and control.

The Relyance AI Unified Platform for connected data security, privacy, and AI does exactly that. Our Data Security Posture Management solution, powered by innovative capabilities like Relyance AI Data Journeys (next-gen Source-to-Store lineage including code, SaaS, infrastructure, and AI footprint) and advanced Asset Visibility & Intelligence, is built for today's challenges.

Want to learn more about how Relyance AI can help your organization navigate the evolving landscape of data security and AI governance? Get a demo today.

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