BlackFog Origins: Forget the Device, It's the Data

Part of BlackFog Decoded, our ongoing series exploring the ideas and technologies shaping modern cybersecurity.

A conversation over lunch with a digital forensics team changed everything. In this extended interview, BlackFog founder Dr. Darren Williams traces the company’s origins back to its early focus on privacy compliance and the realization that transformed its direction. As clients’ laptops were stolen and replaced, it became clear that the real loss was never the hardware. It was the data.

That insight, that cybersecurity had spent decades protecting devices rather than the data itself, became the foundation of anti data exfiltration (ADX).

The conversation also explores why that thinking is more relevant than ever. Technology cycles are accelerating, and today’s biggest threats, ransomware, Shadow AI, and Agentic AI, all share a common objective: accessing and extracting your data.

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