EJ Pappas is Field CTO at PKWARE. He has 30 years of experience solving data security and compliance challenges for some of the largest enterprises in the U.S. He works directly with Fortune 100 security leaders to translate data-centric strategy into operational reality - tackling data sprawl, unstructured data risk, vendor fragmentation, and AI-driven threat exposure.  

EJ's core challenge to every security program is blunt: if you can't answer "where is all of our sensitive data?" - every other control has a blind spot. He helps organizations stop defending platforms and start protecting the data itself.