Billy VanCannon
Director of Porduct Management at Baffle, Inc
About
Billy VanCannon has over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity. This includes network and software security, public-key infrastructure, and identity and access management. He is currently the Director of Product Management at Baffle, where we work to make encryption easy. Billy has an BS in electrical engineering, an MBA at Northwestern's Kellogg school of management and is CISSP certified.
Billy VanCannon has presented the following presentations
- How do you make sure that the tenant’s data is isolated from each other so that a tenant’s data doesn’t get exposed to other tenants? Letting a tenant see another tenant’s data would be considered a data breach.
- How do you make ...
Secure semantic search with Pgvector
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Postgres Conference 2025
presented by Billy VanCannon and Min-Hank Ho
Pgvector extends PostgreSQL capabilities to be a vector database as well as an enterprise-class relational database. But, with vector embeddings identified as a potential source of information leakage, the challenge is ensure that companies can take advantage of Postgres and pgvector while remaining compliant with increasingly stringent data security and privacy requirements, especially for Gen...
more Wed 19 2025 Variants and Cloud
Isolating everyone’s data using BYOK in a multi-tenant SaaS
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Postgres Conference 2025
presented by Billy VanCannon and Min-Hank Ho
The popularity of PostgreSQL makes it the prime candidate to be the database for a multi-tenant SaaS. But, with multi-tenancy, there are 2 fundamental issues:
Enterprise-class data security for Postgres - A review of the options
at
Postgres Conference 2025
presented by Billy VanCannon and Min-Hank Ho
With the rapid adoption of cloud infrastructure and managed database services, PostgreSQL has seen a growth in popularity, in no small part, due to companies transitioning their IT systems to make use of cloud infrastructure. In the cloud is where Postgres’ enterprise-ready feature set and flexible open source licensing makes it an ideal choice as a cloud database platform or managed database ...
more Fri 21 2025 Essentials
PCI-DSS on Postgres Encryption and Database access
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Postgres Conference 2024
Encryption for data compliance and security
presented by Billy VanCannon
Encryption is widely accepted as a very powerful access control mechanism and the only one directly applied to data. Despite this, it isn’t as widely used as it could be. Using the PCI-DSS security framework for payment card data, we will investigate what it says about encryption regarding audit scope and securing credit card information. We will show the role of encryption can be expanded t...
more Fri 19 2024 Ops