Ben van Enckevort

CTO and Co-Founder

Expertise

  • Tech & Innovation
  • Software Engineering

Education

  • Master of Engineering, Computing - Imperial College, London

Ben van Enckevort is the co-founder and CTO of Metomic

Ben van Enckevort is the co-founder and CTO of Metomic. As an engineer, Ben balances the demands of security professionals who need easy and automated ways to safeguard sensitive data while allowing employees the ability to work and collaborate using cloud-based apps.

Prior to co-founding Metomic with Rich Vibert, Ben co-founded Clarify, a time-tracking tool designed for freelancers and agencies that monitored data in SaaS applications to deliver more accurate timesheets. Earlier in his career, Ben served as the team lead for both technical architecture and software engineering at Beamly, a design and branding firm that combined agile product and engineering services with an integrated digital agency. Ben earned a Master of Engineering degree from Imperial College, London.

ā€œI enjoy seeing new innovations in tech, particularly those that help security teams protect data, without getting in the way of productivity.ā€

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Data Security in the AI Age: The Hidden Risks of Enterprise AI Tools and How CISOs Can Protect Against Data Exposure

Metomic's report analyzes six major AI toolsā€”ChatGPT, NotionAI, Glean, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Google Gemini, and Dust AIā€”revealing how enterprise AI adoption creates unprecedented data exposure risks through OAuth vulnerabilities, permission inheritance flaws, and RAG architecture weaknesses that traditional security controls cannot address.

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Beyond the AI Hype: A CISO's Reality Check on Microsoft Copilot Security

Organisations face significant security risks from Microsoft Copilot's deep data access across enterprise systems, with over 15% of business-critical files at risk from oversharing and the potential for costly breaches averaging $4.88 million, requiring CISOs to implement strict access controls and data governance before deployment.

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How is ChatGPT's SaaS Integration Exposing Enterprise Data to Unprecedented Risk?

ChatGPT's widespread enterprise adoption and new SaaS platform integrations create unprecedented data security risks through broad OAuth permissions, data retention issues, and potential training data contamination, requiring immediate implementation of enterprise-grade controls and governance frameworks.

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