In this interview, Damon Neale highlights the growing importance of security as AI becomes central to media workflows. He explores the unique cyber risks facing the industry—from data breaches to deepfakes—and why frameworks like TPN Gold are raising the bar on compliance by prohibiting unverified third-party processing. Damon shares best practices for resilience, including zero-trust architectures and in-account or on-prem AI deployment, and explains how Metadat-AI enables models to run entirely within a customer’s own environment. He concludes with a clear takeaway: organisations must audit where their AI models run, who has access to their assets, and how they’re being used to ensure both security and efficiency.