At this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco, Tech Edge hosted a live conversation with Lisa Kaplan, Founder and CEO of Alethea, moderated by Editor-in-Chief John Jannarone. The discussion focused on a growing operational challenge for security, communications, and risk teams: harmful content can spread in minutes, while the process to get it removed and mitigate its potential impact is often slow, manual, and fragmented.
In the segment, Kaplan explains why organizations cannot afford to treat online content, especially that which clearly violates platforms' terms of service (like deepfakes, coordinated influence campaigns, or threats of violence) as issues that can wait for a standard response and removal cycles. The real bottleneck is often takedown execution. By the time a team identifies the right reporting path, gathers evidence, and drafts a platform-specific request, the content has likely already spread widely.
Kaplan outlines why takedowns need to be treated as a core part of the mitigation workflow, not a separate manual task. She explains how Alethea uses AI not just to detect harmful activity early, but to accelerate the removal process by drafting platform-specific, policy-anchored takedown requests pre-loaded with relevant evidence from Artemis. That gives organizations a head start on the removal process while communications and security teams execute their broader response. In an environment where a takedown can take weeks to process, shrinking the time from detection to submission is critical.
Watch the full interview here.