NVISIONx: Interview With Founder & CEO Glen Day About The Data Risk Intelligence Platform

NVISIONx (Nx) is the first data risk intelligence platform that combines business data and cyber intelligence, empowering companies to gain complete control of their enterprise data and its risk. Pulse 2.0 interviewed NVISIONx founder and CEO Glen Day to learn more about the company. 

Glen Day’s Background 

How did the idea for NVISIONx come together, and what gap in the market were you aiming to fill? Day said: 

“NVISIONx was built on a fundamental shift in data security with the evolved reality that businesses own their data, while Cyber, IT, Legal, and Compliance serve as essential support teams in managing and securing it.” 

“During my tours as a Cybersecurity & Privacy Partner at Ernst & Young, Los Angeles County’s First Chief Privacy Officer, and as a retired Navy Commander with a specialty in Information Warfare, I saw firsthand how companies struggled with fragmented data governance – where IT and Cyber dictated security policies without business context. This siloed approach left organizations vulnerable, over-retaining data they didn’t need, misclassifying records, and lacking control over AI-driven risk.” 

“NVISIONx was founded to change that. We provide a DSPM platform that does a few very key things: 

1. Puts data ownership in the hands of business teams, who understand how data should be used and protected. 
2. Empowers Cyber, IT, Legal, and Compliance as critical support functions, ensuring governance, security, and regulatory adherence. 
3. Democratizes data security, providing a collaborative framework where each stakeholder has a defined role in protecting and managing data throughout its lifecycle. 
4. Eliminates enterprise data hoarding, leveraging the associated data retention periods derived from RexAI’s records schedule enablement to logically and defensibly retire expired, redundant, and trivial files. 

By bridging the gap between business and security teams, NVISIONx is here to enable organizations to take full control of their data, reducing risk and unlocking business value. NVISIONx enables organizations to take full control of their data, reducing risk and unlocking business value.” 

Guiding NVISIONx’s Mission 

How do you guide NVISIONx’s mission in data protection and AI governance? Day shared: 

“At NVISIONx, we believe in data democratization – where data governance is a shared responsibility, not just an IT or Cyber task and we view data as a business asset that must be managed with the same discipline as financial or operational resources. Also, we believe in data democratization, where data governance is a shared responsibility, not just an IT or Cyber task.” 

“We designed our platform around team-based data governance, where business owners define data priorities by deciding what to keep, protect, or purge; Cyber teams enforce security policies, based on actual business risk, not arbitrary IT controls; and Legal & Compliance ensure regulatory adherence, aligning policies with data privacy laws. This approach ensures that no single department dictates security alone, but rather, each team has a defined role in protecting and managing enterprise data.” 

“Our Protect-Purge-Prosper framework is broken down by these fundamental needs withing the organization: 

1. Protect: Business-sensitive data is secured based on business risks and access needs. 
2. Purge: Unnecessary, outdated, and redundant data is defensibly deleted. 
3. Prosper: Organizations unlock AI and business intelligence without unnecessary risk exposure. 

By aligning business and security teams, NVISIONx eliminates the bottlenecks that slow down governance and security efforts, making data management proactive, not reactive.” 

Core Products 

Can you explain NVISIONx’s core products and features, particularly how they enhance data security and mitigate AI risks? Day explained: 

“NVISIONx’s DSPM platform takes a business-first approach to data security and AI governance, ensuring that every team plays a role in protecting and optimizing enterprise data.” 

“Unlike legacy DSPM tools that focus only on IT-driven classification, NVISIONx provides contextual classification, enabling businesses to make intelligent, risk-based decisions about their data.” 

Key capabilities: 

1. Business-Driven Contextual Classification: NVISIONx uses its proprietary technology, RexAI, to automate classification into business records, allowing teams to enforce protections with real-world context. 
2. Data Ownership & Democratization: Provides each team with the insights they need—so Business, Cyber, IT, Legal, and Compliance can collaborate on governance decisions. 
3. Automated Governance Actions: Enables business teams to proactively protect or purge data, without waiting on IT bottlenecks. 
4. AI Governance & Risk Monitoring: Ensures only approved AI models access enterprise data, mitigating exposure risks. 

By ensuring that data governance is a collaborative, team-driven function, NVISIONx empowers organizations to reduce risk, enforce compliance, and scale AI adoption responsibly. Additionally, our approach to massive data disposal of surplus data enables organizations to achieve significant ROI by reducing storage costs, minimizing compliance burdens, and streamlining security operations.” 

Challenges In the AI Landscape 

The AI landscape is evolving rapidly, especially with generative AI. What challenges have you faced in protecting enterprise data in this environment, and how has NVISIONx addressed them? Day noted: 

“AI presents a major governance challenge—not because AI itself is a risk, but because organizations lack structured data governance to control AI access and prevent data misuse.” 

“Key AI governance challenges include: 

1. Data silos and misclassification: AI models ingest unstructured, ungoverned data, leading to unreliable insights. 
2. Over-retained sensitive data: without clear disposal policies, AI models may process obsolete, irrelevant, or confidential records. 
3. Lack of business oversight: AI governance is often left to IT, rather than aligning with business, legal, and compliance teams. 

How NVISIONx solves these challenges: 

1. Empowers business leaders to set AI governance rules—ensuring only approved data is fed into AI models. 
2. Prevents unauthorized AI data exposure—enforcing need-to-know access for AI-driven data processing. 
3. Automates defensible disposal—ensuring AI models don’t train on outdated, non-compliant data. 

By embedding AI governance within data democratization, NVISIONx ensures that AI adoption is safe, responsible, and aligned with business objectives.” 

Evolution Of the NVISIONx’s Technology 

How has NVISIONx’s technology evolved since launching, especially in response to the rise of generative AI and new cybersecurity threats? Day noted: 

“NVISIONx has evolved beyond traditional DSPM to become the leading AI-ready data risk intelligence platform, enabling organizations to proactively manage risk, enforce governance, and adopt AI securely. 

Key advancements include:   

1. RexAI’s Expansion: Automating business-driven classification and governance to ensure AI and security policies align with real-world business needs.  
2. AI Risk Controls: Enforcing real-time oversight on AI data access and usage, preventing unauthorized exposure and ensuring compliance.  
3. Automated Data Minimization: Reducing redundant, obsolete, and trivial data to lower costs, meet compliance mandates, and strengthen security.  
4. Faster Business Decision-Making – Empowering teams to take immediate action on risks without IT bottlenecks. 

By integrating AI-driven automation and cross-team governance, NVISIONx ensures organizations remain agile, resilient, and AI-ready. Our Prosper value proposition provides the transparency and trust needed to responsibly adopt GenAI solutions to maintain and grow their competitive edge.” 

Differentiation From Other Companies 

What differentiates NVISIONx from other companies in this field? Day affirmed: 

“NVISIONx stands out by democratizing data security and governance, ensuring that all teams – not just IT – can manage, protect, and dispose of data intelligently. 

1. Business-First Data Ownership: We empower business users, while Cyber, IT, Legal, and Compliance serve as support teams. 
2. RexAI-Powered Contextual Classification: Automates business-driven classification, eliminating manual efforts and IT bottlenecks. 
3. Protect-Purge-Prosper Framework: Aligns business priorities with security and compliance goals, optimizing AI readiness and governance. 

Unlike other DSPM tools that simply scan and classify, NVISIONx enables cross-team action—ensuring security, compliance, and business intelligence work together.” 

Customer Success Stories 

When asking Day about customer success stories, he highlighted: 

“A leading children’s hospital faced a significant data governance challenge, having retained patient records for over 40 years. These children were now grandparents, yet their records remained stored indefinitely. Leadership recognized that these data retention practices had never fully aligned with HIPAA compliance and that the hospital was incurring millions in unnecessary storage costs annually.” 

“NVISIONx delivered value to the hospital in a few ways. First, we conducted a comprehensive data inventory, identifying outdated records and aligning retention policies with regulatory mandates. Then, we enhanced security posture, leveraging granular insights to optimize DLP and CASB controls for better enforcement of security policies without disrupting critical hospital operations. Finally, we identified data disposal candidates to reduce storage expenditures by millions, freeing up critical budgetary resources for improved patient care and operations.” 

“This initiative not only improved HIPAA compliance and risk reduction but also established a sustainable data governance framework, ensuring that the hospital could manage sensitive patient records efficiently and securely moving forward.” 

Total Addressable Market 

What is the total addressable market (TAM) that NVISIONx is targeting, particularly given the increasing enterprise adoption of AI? Day assessed: 

“NVISIONx is positioned in the rapidly expanding Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) and AI Governance market, which is estimated to exceed $60 billion.” 

“Several factors are driving this growth: 

1. Enterprise AI Adoption: Organizations are scaling AI-driven automation and analytics, but lack governance frameworks to ensure AI models don’t consume, misclassify, or expose sensitive data. 
2. Explosion of Unstructured Data: Over 80% of enterprise data is unstructured, growing 55-65% annually—with no effective visibility or security controls in most companies. 
3. Regulatory Pressures & Compliance Complexity: Global regulations like GDPR, CCPA, NYDFS, and industry-specific mandates demand continuous classification, access control, and defensible disposal—areas where NVISIONx is a leader. 
4. Cyber & Insider Threats: Organizations face rising cyberattacks and data breaches, often due to poorly managed permissions and over-retained sensitive data. 

NVISIONx uniquely addresses all these challenges by providing business-driven DSPM capabilities that integrate with AI, security, and compliance workflows. Our TAM includes industries such as: 

1. Financial Services & Insurance (FIs, fintech, global banks) 
2. Healthcare & Life Sciences (hospitals, biotech, medical research) 
3. Retail & E-commerce (consumer data protection) 
4. Energy & Manufacturing (intellectual property & OT security) 

With enterprise data volumes doubling every two years, the need for automated, AI-driven DSPM solutions like NVISIONx has never been more urgent.” 

Differentiation From the Competition 

The cybersecurity and AI risk management space is competitive. What differentiates NVISIONx from other companies in this field? Day concluded: 

“NVISIONx is not just another DSPM platform. It is data risk intelligence on steroids, uniquely designed to democratize data governance across business, Cyber, IT, Legal, and Compliance teams.” 

“Unlike traditional solutions that focus only on IT-led security controls, NVISIONx empowers Business Data Owners by putting business users in charge of what data should be protected, retained, or deleted, rather than leaving these decisions solely to IT. We fuse AI, Security, and Governance because our RexAI module provides contextual classification, allowing teams to apply business-driven security policies rather than static, one-size-fits-all rules. We also provide real-rime data risk insights through continuously scanning and assessing all data, across structured and unstructured sources, to detect risks, automate governance actions, and enforcing compliance, without disrupting operations. We also automate protection & purge actions, unlike other tools that only identify risks.” 

“NVISIONx also enables businesses to take immediate action—securing critical data and purging unnecessary records in real time. NVISIONx provides AI-Ready Governance, unlike most cybersecurity and DSPM solutions, which focus only on protection. NVISIONx goes further, ensuring that companies can safely adopt AI while maintaining control over which data is used in AI models and how it’s accessed. It delivers significant ROI through data minimization, through our protect-purge-prosper framework, which not only enhances security and compliance but also drives millions in cost savings by eliminating redundant, obsolete, and trivial data, reducing storage costs, simplifying compliance, and strengthening security operations.” 

“The Bottom Line: other DSPM platforms provide basic scanning and reporting—NVISIONx delivers business-driven risk intelligence that transforms how organizations manage and protect their data.” 

“By bridging the gap between business stakeholders and security teams, NVISIONx ensures organizations don’t just react to risks – they prevent them before they happen.”