Moltbook Alert: AI Agents Risk Enterprise Data Security
Why the Moltbook phenomenon represents the biggest corporate security threat since the cloud migration era, and what you can do about it right now. Something wild happened this week. An...
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Posts by Tim Freestone
Tim Freestone, Chief Strategy Officer, Kiteworks
Tim joined Kiteworks as chief marketing officer in 2021 and was promoted to Chief Strategy Officer in 2026. Tim brings over 15 years of experience in marketing and marketing leadership, including demand generation, brand strategy, and process and organizational optimization. Tim was previously vice president of marketing at Contrast Security, a scale-up application security company. Before Contrast, Tim was the vice president of corporate marketing at Fortinet, a next-generation firewall and cloud security company.
Tim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Communication Studies from The University of Montana.
CMMC 2.0 Compliance for Defense Infrastructure Contractors: Strategies and Pitfalls to Avoid in 2026
Defense infrastructure contractors face a critical deadline. As CMMC 2.0 requirements phase into DoD solicitations throughout 2025 and 2026, defense infrastructure contractors managing installations, power systems, communications networks, and operational...
The Executive’s Guide to Choosing CMMC‑Ready Secure Collaboration Platforms
Choosing a CMMC‑ready secure collaboration platform is a strategic decision with contractual, operational, and security implications. For any DoD contractor handling FCI or CUI, the platform you select must enforce...
AI Swarm Attacks: What Security Teams Need to Know in 2026
In November 2025, Anthropic detected a coordinated cyberattack targeting 30 global organizations. The attackers weren't a team of hackers working keyboards in a basement. They were autonomous software agents—working together,...
December 2025 AI Executive Order: Impact on Data Security and Compliance
On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order that was supposed to simplify things. Instead, it created the most complicated compliance environment businesses have faced in years. Here’s...
Gartner Just Said What We’ve Been Thinking About AI Governance
I’ve been reading Gartner reports for longer than I’d like to admit. Most of them confirm what practitioners already suspect. Some challenge assumptions. And occasionally, one lands that makes you...
How to Manage Data Security Posture Across Cloud Deployments
As organizations expand across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and SaaS, the question isn’t if risk will arise—it’s how quickly you’ll see it and how efficiently you can reduce it. Data...
7 Ways Kiteworks Boosts Your DSPM Investment to Stop Shadow AI Data Sharing
Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) gives security teams the data-centric visibility and policy framework they need to address shadow AI—the unsanctioned use of AI tools that move sensitive data outside...
How to Manage Confidential Data Identified by DSPM
Executives increasingly ask: after a DSPM platform discovers and classifies sensitive data, what happens next—and how is it protected? This playbook answers with a clear, end-to-end model: discover and classify...
How Kiteworks MCP Enables Secure AI Integration Without Exposing Confidential Data
As AI adoption accelerates across regulated industries, enterprise organizations face a critical security challenge: enabling employees to leverage Large Language Models without exposing confidential information to unauthorized access controls, data...
Building a Zero-Trust File Transfer Policy: A Practical Guide with Examples
Building a Zero-Trust File Transfer Policy: A Practical Guide with Examples Zero-trust architecture represents a fundamental shift in how organizations approach security. Rather than trusting users and systems inside the...
Bridging the Access-Trust Gap in Modern Security
The modern workplace operates at a speed that traditional security infrastructure was never designed to handle. Employees toggle between dozens of cloud applications, feed company data into AI tools, and...
What Are Secure Data Forms — and Why Every Regulated Enterprise Needs Them
Regulated enterprises face mounting pressure to collect sensitive data while maintaining strict compliance standards. Traditional web forms create significant vulnerabilities that expose organizations to data breaches, regulatory penalties, and reputational...
Cross-Border Data Privacy: Zero-Trust Solutions
Organizations today face the challenge of managing sensitive data across borders amid complex privacy regulations and operational demands, requiring effective strategies to balance compliance with operational efficiency while protecting sensitive...
Zero‑Trust Strategies for Affordable AI Privacy Protection
With 96% of organizations deploying AI models, protecting sensitive data in AI workloads has become critical for enterprise success. Zero trust architecture provides the foundation for affordable AI privacy protection...