Building digital trust: How John Deere governs AI, cybersecurity and digital risk

As organizations race to adopt AI, connected technologies and increasingly data-driven business models, the challenge is no longer simply managing privacy or cybersecurity in isolation. It's understanding and governing digital risk across the enterprise.

Long before digital risk governance became a mainstream topic, John Deere was building a program designed to bring together cybersecurity, privacy, data governance, third-party risk, product security, and AI oversight under a unified framework. To learn more about the company's approach, IAPP Editorial Director Jedidiah Bracy spoke with John Deere Vice President, Digital Risk Officer and Deputy General Counsel Jason Stanley and Director of Digital Risk Brett Leighton.

In this in-depth conversation, Stanley and Leighton discuss how one of the world's most recognizable and technologically advanced manufacturers approaches digital trust; the lessons they've learned from nearly a decade of building an enterprise digital risk program; and how they're navigating everything from AI governance and shadow AI to regulatory uncertainty and intellectual property risk.