SHARED INTEL Q&A: Why Data Bill of Materials (DBOM) is surfacing as a crucial tool to secure AI
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
Enterprises hustling to embed AI across their operations came to an uncomfortable realization in 2025: they lost track of the data powering those systems.
Few paused to map where sensitive data lived or how it moved. That oversight is now surfacing in audits, breach incidents, and regulatory pressure.
According to field research from Bedrock Security, most IT and security leaders still lack foundational visibility into the datasets fueling training and inference.
'You can't govern retroactively,' says Bruno Kurtic, co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Data. 'You need controls before the model runs, not after.'
Last Watchdog caught up with Kurtic to understand what this shift means in practical terms. Here's an edited version of that conversation.
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