Omar Khawaja

VP, Field CISO at Databricks

Omar is VP, Field CISO at Databricks and former CISO at Highmark Health. He also serves on the boards of HITRUST, The FAIR Institute, and Leadership Pittsburgh; he also serves as an advisor to a half dozen tech firms and as faculty for the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) program at Carnegie Mellon University. For his dedication and focus on cyber resilience, he has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, SANS, Forrester, Gartner, NACD, Reuters, HIMSS, CSO Magazine, CMU, and others. Omar is passionate about people, community, frameworks, communication, and measurement.

OnDemand | Accelerating GenAI Adoption Through Risk Management

Presented by Pankaj Goyal , Omar Khawaja , Jackie Lebo • November 3, 2023

Companies are taking a cautious approach towards embracing AI. Their concerns stem from the potential risks associated with data privacy breaches, intellectual property loss, emerging cyber threats, compliance risks, and legal liabilities. Looking at the GenAI risk as ‘just-another-data-risk’ is not enough. To...