Why Is Your Data Never Safe?

In this episode of TechUnhinged, Paul Bockelman, CTO of Qanapi and a 25-year veteran of AWS and Google's defense/intelligence cloud teams, explores the security challenges faced by modern organizations. He warns that AI adoption is outpacing data protection, and employees are bleeding sensitive data into public LLMs without guardrails. Further, Paul also sounds the alarm about post-quantum cryptography and predicts that Q-Day may arrive as early as 2027, noting that adversaries are already harvesting encrypted data to decrypt later. His emphasis is to protect data at the data layer first, build crypto-agile foundations second, then scale AI. Compliance does not equal security, and architects must design for the spirit of regulations, not just the checkbox.