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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.
Is an AI Retrieving a Document a Recordable Data Access Event? The Compliance Question RAG Creates
What Is the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — and Why It Matters for Enterprise Data Security
How Should Enterprise AI Systems Authenticate? A Security Leader’s Guide to AI Credential Management
Proving AI Governance to Auditors: What Documentation You Actually Need
Why RAG Implementations Fail Security Review — and How to Build One That Doesn’t
Claude and Copilot Are in Your File System. Who Decides What They Can See?
Direct API vs. MCP vs. AI Data Gateway: How to Choose the Right AI Integration Architecture
Can Your RAG Pipeline Become a Data Exfiltration Vector? The Risk Security Teams Are Missing
Zero-Trust for AI Systems: Why the Same Principles Apply — and Where They Break Down
Shadow AI Is Already in Your Organization. Here’s How to Respond Without Banning Everything
RAG in Production: The Governance Checklist Security Teams Need Before Go-Live
Prompt Injection, Credential Theft, and AI Trust Boundaries: What Developers Building on LLMs Need to Understand
How to Make the Business Case for Governed AI to a Risk-Averse Security Team