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TechSpective Podcast
The TechSpective Podcast brings together top minds in cybersecurity, enterprise tech, AI, and beyond to share unique perspective on technology—unpacking breakthrough trends like zero trust, threat intelligence, AI-enabled security, ransomware’s geopolitical ties, and more. Whether you’re an IT pro, security exec, or simply tech‑curious, each episode blends expert insight with real-world context—from microsegmentation strategies to the human side of cyber ethics. But we also keep it fun…
Episodes
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Earning Trust in the Age of AI Agents
Every time Claude stops in the middle of a task to ask permission to open a file or read an email, I get two choices. I can allow it once, or I can allow it…
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The Billionaires Who Want to Outgrow Democracy
Every time I pull up directions on my phone, I'm using something the government built. GPS started as a Department of Defense project and was run for decades…
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Why Your Home Address Is the Privacy Risk That Matters Most
Remember those Facebook quizzes that made the rounds during the pandemic lockdowns? They'd ask for things like the street you grew up on or the name of your…
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The Real Cost of AI Hasn’t Shown Up Yet
I realize I am dating myself to some extent, but my first cell phone plan came with a fixed number of minutes and a small allotment of text messages, and…
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Rebuilding Identity Security From Scratch for the Age of AI Agents
Amihai Niederman joins me on this episode of the TechSpective Podcast to talk about what happens to identity security once AI agents start outnumbering the…
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Moving Past Indicators Toward Behavior
Nicole Beckwith joins me on this episode of the TechSpective Podcast to talk about a problem most of the security industry still hasn't fully reckoned with…
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When the AI Breaks Its Own Rules
For most of the last year, the AI security conversation had a clear villain. Attackers were using AI to write better phishing lures, adapt malware mid-attack…
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Your AI Agents Are Multiplying and Nobody’s Counting
Think about every account you've ever created and then forgotten about. A login for a gym you canceled two years ago. A free trial you signed up for and never…
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The Attack That Turns Your AI Agent Into A Weapon Against You
Barak Sternberg spent a chunk of this year proving something that should worry anyone who has plugged an AI coding agent into their observability stack. His…
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Building an AI That Learns Like an Analyst
Most AI-driven security tools lean on retrieval-augmented generation: pull relevant precedent, drop it into the context window, let the model reason over it…
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Most AI Problems Are Really Capitalism Problems
Bruce Schneier joins me on this episode of the TechSpective Podcast to talk about hacking, power, and why so much of what gets blamed on AI might actually be…
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The Case For Rebooting Democracy With AI
Beth Simone Noveck joins me on this episode of the TechSpective Podcast to talk about her book, Reboot, AI and the Race to Save Democracy. She's a professor at…
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The Remediation Cycle No Security Team Wants to Be Running
Most cloud security tools have a detection problem. They find misconfigurations well enough. The issue is what happens after — a ticket gets opened, someone…
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Remote Hiring Opened the Talent Pool — and the Fraud Surface
Before COVID forced everyone out of the office, hiring for most companies was a pretty localized exercise. You posted the job, you interviewed whoever could…
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The AI Risk Blind Spot Most Organizations Don’t Know They Have
Most organizations believe they have a solid handle on their AI risk. According to a new report, that confidence may be misplaced. ArmorCode partnered with the…
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The Attack Surface Changed but the Fundamentals Didn’t
Every few years, something comes along that reshapes the threat landscape and sends the industry scrambling for new tools, new frameworks, and new buzzwords…
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What the Breach Reveals That the Budget Never Did
There's a pattern that shows up in incident response work that nobody talks about in the vendor briefings. You bring in forensics after something goes wrong…
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The Agentic AI Reckoning Nobody Saw Coming
I keep having versions of the same conversation. The names and logos change, but the underlying tension doesn't: organizations are deploying AI agents fast…
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The Microsoft Enterprise Recovery Problem AI Can’t Fix
There's a moment in my conversation with Bob Bobel where he mentions that customers are having a harder time finding people who actually know Active Directory…
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When AI Agents Go Rogue the Problem Starts at Runtime
Every conversation I’ve had for the past couple of years has followed the same arc. First, it was generative AI. Then agentic AI. Now the question everyone is…
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The Browser Was Already a Problem – Now Add a Billion AI Agents
Fresh off RSAC 2026, I sat down with Ramin Farassat, Chief Product Officer at Menlo Security, to work through what agentic AI is actually doing to the…
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Why Ransomware Should Be Getting Your Attention Again
Ransomware has been a persistent headline topic for years now. As a result, a lot of people have probably gotten numb to it. I know I had. It starts to feel…
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The Agentic AI Hype Is Real — But So Is the Confusion
Everyone is talking about agentic AI. And that's part of the problem. Over the last couple of years, the term has gone the way of every other buzzword in tech…
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Why Cloud Still Feels Harder Than It Should Be
Cloud was supposed to make everything easier. In some ways, it absolutely has. You can spin up infrastructure in minutes, scale on demand, and deploy globally…
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Most Companies Are Still Just Playing With AI
Everybody's got an AI strategy. Every platform claims to be AI-powered. Every vendor deck has a slide about how their product uses machine learning to deliver…
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Rethinking Cybersecurity For A World Of AI And Machine Identities
I spend a lot of time talking with people in cybersecurity. Founders, analysts, CISOs, researchers. One thing that comes up again and again is that the problem…
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Who Do You Trust Online—And Why?
Trust on the internet used to be a fairly simple calculation. You looked for familiar names, recognizable brands, maybe a blue checkmark, and you made a…
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Why Identity Is the Key to AI-Driven Defense
If you’ve been following trends in cybersecurity and enterprise tech, you already know that AI has become more than a buzzword—it’s a foundational shift. What…
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Zero Trust, Real Talk: A Conversation with Dr. Chase Cunningham
How do you know your cybersecurity investments are actually making you safer? That’s the question at the heart of the latest TechSpective Podcast episode…
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Algorithms, Thought Leadership, and the Future of Digital Influence
It’s getting harder to have a “normal” conversation about content, social media, or visibility anymore—mostly because the rules keep changing while you're…
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Shadow AI, Cybersecurity, and the Evolving Threat Landscape
The cybersecurity landscape never sits still—and neither do the conversations I aim to have on the TechSpective Podcast. In the latest episode, I sit down with…
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Agentic AI and the Art of Asking Better Questions
I’ve had a lot of conversations about AI over the past couple years—some insightful, some overhyped, and a few that left me questioning whether we’re even…
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Building Security for a World That’s Already Changed
There’s a question I’ve been sitting with lately: Are we prepared for what AI is about to expose in our organizations—not just technically, but operationally?…
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Cybersecurity’s Quiet Revolution: What We’re Missing While Chasing the Hype
There’s something happening in cybersecurity right now that’s both exciting and a little disorienting. As generative and agentic AI take over headlines…
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The Identity Problem No One Saw Coming—Until AI Exposed It
Every once in a while, a conversation forces you to stop and rethink something you thought you already understood. Recording this latest TechSpective Podcast…
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Exploring the Future of Identity Security and Agentic AI
Every once in a while, I end up in a conversation that hits at exactly the right moment—when the industry is shifting, the vocabulary is changing, and everyone…
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From Polymorphic Attacks to Deepfakes: The Shifting Threat Landscape
One thing I’ve learned after years of covering cybersecurity is that the “state of the threat landscape” rarely sits still long enough to fit neatly into a…
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Why AI Agents Need Guardrails — And Why Everyone’s Talking About It
The latest episode of the TechSpective Podcast dives straight into one of the most pressing questions in cybersecurity right now: what happens when the vast…
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From Alert Fatigue to Cyber Resilience: Rethinking the Future of the SOC with AI
Cybersecurity has a long memory—and an even longer list of recurring frustrations. Chief among them: alert fatigue. For as long as security teams have existed…
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Fighting Machines with Machines: How AI Is Redefining the SOC
Cybersecurity has always been a race against time—but in the era of artificial intelligence, it’s become a race against the machine. In this episode of the…
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When the Phish Leaves the Inbox
For years, phishing has been the king of cyberattacks. It’s simple, cheap, and it works. Most of us have learned to spot the obvious red flags in email—strange…
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When Security Automation Meets Agentic AI
Security teams know the pressure all too well: attackers move faster, the attack surface expands every year, and the tools meant to protect enterprises often…
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Rethinking Cybersecurity in the Age of AI and Digital Twins
Artificial intelligence is transforming nearly every industry, and cybersecurity is no exception. On the latest episode of the TechSpective Podcast, I spoke…
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The Evolving Face of Ransomware — and How We Can Stay Ahead of It
Ransomware has been part of the cybersecurity conversation for years, but if you think it’s yesterday’s problem, think again. The headlines might be dominated…
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Why Data Must Be the Heart of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity strategy has evolved over the years—first focusing on keeping the bad guys out, then on detecting and responding to threats faster, and now on…
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Retail Under Fire: Why Hackers Love Shopping Season
When it comes to cybersecurity, it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking in binaries—good guys and bad guys, black hats and white hats, defenders and…
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Navigating Cybersecurity Complexity
The ever-expanding world of cybersecurity is full of big promises, bold claims, and—if we’re being honest—a lot of noise. As security leaders face mounting…
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Rethinking Cloud Security for the Evolving Threat Landscape
Cloud security is one of the most talked-about issues in cybersecurity today—but are we talking about the right things? In the latest episode of the…
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Why Data Security Is the Real AI Risk
Artificial intelligence may be the headline, but data is the story. In this episode of the TechSpective Podcast, I sat down with Todd Moore, VP of Data…
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Why Being Bold Matters in Cybersecurity—and Branding
In a sea of sameness in the cybersecurity market, it’s easy to walk away feeling like every company says the exact same thing. “Autonomous.” “Agentic.”…
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A New Reality for Cybersecurity Collaboration
In the latest episode of the TechSpective Podcast, Errol Weiss, Chief Security Officer at Health-ISAC, joins me to dive into a timely and thought-provoking…
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Cybersecurity, Trust, and the Shifting Landscape of Government Oversight
How do you navigate a cybersecurity landscape where the threats are constantly evolving—and so is the government’s role in defending against them? I sat down…
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Breach Ready: Rethinking Zero Trust and Lateral Movement Defense
Cybersecurity isn’t what it used to be—and that’s a good thing. In the latest episode of the TechSpective Podcast, I sat down with Sunil Muralidhar, Vice…
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Navigating the Future of AI and Cybersecurity
The rise of artificial intelligence has opened up exciting possibilities, but it’s also creating new challenges--particularly for cybersecurity. I sat down…
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AI Disruption, Cyber Risk, and Doing the Right Thing
How do you balance business priorities and AI trends with truly effective cybersecurity practices—and make sure you’re still doing right by employees and…
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A Pragmatic Approach to Effective Security
Cybersecurity is constantly evolving, and staying ahead of threats requires more than just tools—it demands strategy, leadership, and expertise. The…
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Building Community and Making Cybersecurity Accessible
I recently sat down with my long-time friend and cybersecurity expert, Michael Farnum, to discuss his journey in the industry, his role as an advisory CISO at…
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Where Ransomware and Geopolitical Tensions Intersect
In the latest episode of the TechSpective Podcast, I sit down with Anthony Freed, Director of Research Communications at Halcyon, to dive deep into the…
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Why the SOC of Tomorrow Won’t Look Like Today’s
TechSpective Podcast Episode 148 Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions were once hailed as the cornerstone of modern cybersecurity…
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The Rising Cost of Ransomware
TechSpective Podcast Episode 147 I sat down with Trevor Dearing, Director of Critical Infrastructure Solutions at Illumio, to unpack the findings of Illumio’s…