Data Xposure: The Podcast for Data Risk Leaders
What’s hiding in your data could cost you everything.
Data Xposure is Exterro’s biweekly podcast for senior legal, privacy, compliance, and digital forensics professionals navigating the ever-evolving landscape of data risk.
Each 20-minute episode dives into the headlines—major breaches, court cases, enforcement actions—and unpacks the real breakdowns behind the news: misaligned policies, siloed systems, and operational blind spots. Through narrative storytelling and expert interviews, we connect the dots between real-world failures and the proactive strategies used by successful organizations to avoid them.
Designed for leaders who want to elevate their influence, sharpen their risk posture, and lead with confidence, Data Xposure cuts through the noise to deliver urgent, actionable insight—with a tone that’s curious, clear, and grounded in reality.
If you're responsible for managing data risk across legal, IT, security, or compliance—this is your front-row seat to the moments where strategy meets consequence.
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Episodes
17 episodes
From Depp-Heard to Epstein: How eDiscovery Became Everyone’s Problem | Data Xposure - Ep 16
The headlines are hard to ignore.High-profile cases— the scrutiny of celebrity text messages and photos in the Depp-Heard litigation to the release of Epstein-related documents—have turned private communications into public evidence. Wh...
When What You Find Online Becomes Evidence—and a Liability | Data Xposure - Ep 15
What if the information your team relies on… isn’t as reliable as it looks?In today’s investigations, it’s never been easier to find information online. Social media, public records, data brokers—answers are everywhere. But in...
Why Most Legal Departments Overspend—and How Legal Ops Can Help Fix It | Data Xposure - Ep 14
Corporate legal departments are under constant pressure to control costs while managing growing workloads across litigation, investigations, and compliance. Yet many organizations still overspend, often because technology, vendors, and operatio...
Take Back Control How In-House Legal Teams Are Reclaiming Power in Litigation | Data Xposure - Ep 13
Litigation risk isn’t just growing. It’s spreading. And too many legal teams are still responding the old way, collect everything remotely related to litigation, ship it out for collection and review, and hope for defensibility later.In ...
Overcoming the ‘What If We Need It?’ Mindset: Building a Culture of Defensible Deletion | Data Xposure - Ep 12
What’s really driving your data retention decisions: policy, or fear?In this episode of Exterro's Data Xposure podcast, host Fahad Diwan sits down with
Playbook-Driven Litigation Readiness: The Strategy Legal Leaders Can’t Skip | Data Xposure - Ep 11
Litigation isn’t slowing down—and the stakes are only getting higher.In this episode of Data Xposure, host Jenny Hamilton, Exterro’s Chief Legal Officer, is joined by Patrick Butts, Director of Legal Operations and Information G...
The Human Side of Readiness: Coaching Legal, IT, and Security Teams for Litigation Success | Data Xposure - Episode 10
In this episode of Data Xposure, host Jenny Hamilton sits down with Rasheedah Bilal, a senior l...
Beyond Breach: Why Data Loss Prevention Is Every Leader’s Problem | Data Xposure - Episode 9
On this episode of Data Xposure, forensic expert Robert Fried joins host Justin Tolman to unpack ...
The Year Everything Changes: Data Governance, AI, and Litigation Risk in 2026 | Data Xposure - Episode 8
2026 will mark a turning point for organizations managing sensitive data across legal, privacy, security, and forensics. With AI creating new categories of discoverable data, regulators increasing demands for documentation, and courts penalizin...
Building a Data Privacy Program from Scratch in a Cloud-Native World | Data Xposure - Episode 7
What does it take to build a privacy program from the ground up in a high-growth, cloud-native tech company? In this episode, host Fahad Diwan sits down with Jamie Massaro, Senior Privacy Analyst at Spectro Cloud—a platform that helps enterpris...
Metadata, Murder, and Media: Digital Evidence on Trial | Data Xposure - Episode 6
The Karen Read murder trial gripped the nation with its dramatic allegations—but behind the headlines, it was digital evidence that took center stage. From text metadata to mobile tracking and surveillance video, forensic data shaped bot...
Governance or Guesswork: How Information Management Makes or Breaks Forensic Investigations - Data Xposure | Ep 5
When digital investigations hit a wall, the root cause is often hiding in plain sight: poor information governance.In this episode of Data Xposure, brought to you by Exterro, host Justin Tolm...
California’s New Data Rules: Automated Decisions, Risk Assessments, and Cybersecurity Audits - Data Xposure | Episode 4
California has just finalized sweeping new privacy regulations—and they cut straight into the daily operations of legal, privacy, and security teams. From automated decision-making tools that now require notice, opt-outs, and appeal rights, to ...
From the Frontlines of Data Risk: Live Insights from the Industry’s Leading Conference - Data Xposure | Episode 3
What happens when the sharpest minds in legal, privacy, and security come together to solve the world’s hardest data problems?Recorded live onsite at the close of Exterro’s XChange 2025 in Denver—the industry’s lea...
Inside a Mega Data Breach: The Cost of Mismanaged Information Governance - Data Xposure | Episode 2
In the past year, several massive data breaches—impacting tens of millions of people—have exposed a troubling pattern: when legal, security, and forensics teams aren’t aligned, the fallout is faster, costlier, and harder to contain. In this epi...
Reimagining the Legal Function with AI: A Conversation with Cecilia Ziniti - Data Xposure | Episode 1
As AI reshapes the corporate landscape, legal teams face a pivotal choice: adapt—or risk being sidelined. In this episode of Data Xposure, host Jenny Hamilton sits down with Cecilia Ziniti—former General Counsel turned AI founder—...