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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, sometimes riffing on pop‑culture debates like Star Wars vs. Star Trek or Xbox vs. PS—so it’s not all dry and serious.

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Your AI Agents Are Multiplying and Nobody’s Counting
4d ago · 56:57
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 used again. A vendor portal from a job you left. Nobody deletes those things, and nobody circles back to check whether they still work. Now multiply that across every employee at a mid-size company, running for ten or fifteen years, and you've got a rough picture of what most identity and security teams were already dealing with before AI showed up. Roy Katmor, co-founder and CEO of Orchid Security, joins me on this episode of the TechSp
The Attack That Turns Your AI Agent Into A Weapon Against You
10d ago · 41:07
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 team at Tenet Security found that a single fake error report, sent to a public Sentry endpoint with no login required, was enough to get AI agents to run code they had no business running. In a controlled test, more than 100 organizations' agents acted on the injected error, including one belonging to a company worth roughly $250 billion. Tenet published the full research, including the disclosure timeline, on its blog. The attack doesn't
Building an AI That Learns Like an Analyst
1mo ago · 36:08
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. It works, but it has a cost problem and a consistency problem. The more data you feed a large language model to improve its answer, the more expensive that answer gets — and the more room there is for the model to produce inconsistent results, independent of hallucination. Torq built its "SOC brain" to get around that tradeoff. On the latest episode of the TechSpective Podcast, I sat down with Torq Co-Founder and CTO Leonid Belkind to tal
Most AI Problems Are Really Capitalism Problems
1mo ago · 49:13
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 something else. Schneier is one of the most well-known and respected names in cybersecurity. He has been working in and writing about cybersecurity since the term was invented, writing more than a dozen books in that time. Data and Goliath looked at surveillance. A Hacker's Mind looked at loopholes in the rules we all live by. His most recent book turns that same thinking toward AI and democracy. A Hacker's Way of Seeing the World Schneie
The Case For Rebooting Democracy With AI
1mo ago · 51:08
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 Northeastern, where she leads the Burns Center for Social Change. She also founded Innovate US, a training program for public sector workers. It's grown into one of the largest AI training efforts in the country. Before that, she ran AI for the state of New Jersey and worked on tech policy for the federal government under President Obama. I admit I hadn't read the book before we sat down to talk. My reading backlog is somewhere around 1
The Remediation Cycle No Security Team Wants to Be Running
2mo ago · 37:28
Most cloud security tools have a detection problem. They find misconfigurations well enough. The issue is what happens after — a ticket gets opened, someone works the queue, the fix goes in, and three weeks later the same misconfiguration is back because a different person on the team made the same call. Ariel Litmanovich watched that cycle for years, not at some mid-market company struggling with tooling, but at the Israel Defense Forces, running cloud security for one of the more demanding environments you can imagine. The team had budget, direct relationships with AWS, Azure, and GCP, and a
Remote Hiring Opened the Talent Pool — and the Fraud Surface
2mo ago · 46:18
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 physically show up, and you picked someone. If you were based in a mid-sized city, you hired from a mid-sized city talent pool. Remote work changed that. Suddenly a company in Topeka, Kansas could interview candidates in Portland, Maine — or anywhere else. This meant more competition for good candidates. However, it also meant a dramatically better shot at actually finding the right person for the job. And depending on your market, the cos
The AI Risk Blind Spot Most Organizations Don’t Know They Have
3mo ago · 48:34
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 Purplebook community to survey more than 650 cybersecurity leaders to produce the State of AI Risk Management 2026 report. The results reveal a disconnect that's hard to explain away. Nearly 90% of respondents said they had complete visibility into AI usage across their organizations. However, more than 60% of those same respondents said AI usage in their organizations is essentially ungoverned. These weren't different groups of people.
The Attack Surface Changed but the Fundamentals Didn’t
3mo ago · 28:16
Every few years, something comes along that reshapes the threat landscape and sends the industry scrambling for new tools, new frameworks, and new buzzwords. The perimeter died. Then it came back. Endpoints became the priority. Now they're not the whole story. Identity is the new battleground. AI is changing everything. And yet, the more I talk to people who've spent decades in the trenches, the more I keep hearing the same thing: the fundamentals still work. We just stopped trusting them. I had that conversation recently with Will Ledesma, a cybersecurity veteran with over 25 years in the fie
What the Breach Reveals That the Budget Never Did
4mo ago · 44:05
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, and somewhere in that process, you find a tool — already deployed, already licensed, sometimes running for years — that had the data to catch what happened. Nobody was looking at it. In some cases, it wasn't even turned on the right way. Max Henderson runs global digital forensics and incident response at Kroll. He's seen this enough that it's not a surprise anymore. That's part of what makes him a useful person to talk to about Kroll's n
The Agentic AI Reckoning Nobody Saw Coming
4mo ago · 52:02
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, they're deploying them into production, and a lot of them weren't ready when they did it. Monte Carlo's co-founder and CTO Lior Gavish joined me on the TechSpective Podcast recently, and we got into why that's happening and what it actually means. Monte Carlo published the Agents in Production report, and the numbers are worth paying attention to. Nearly half of enterprises surveyed already have agentic solutions running on mission-critica
The Microsoft Enterprise Recovery Problem AI Can’t Fix
4mo ago · 52:22
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. Not cloud identity — the old on-premise stuff that most large organizations still run. Even if they've also got Entra ID and Office 365 sitting on top of it, they maintain those older systems. That expertise is retiring. Moreover, it's not being replaced fast enough. Bob is the CEO of Cayosoft, which builds management, auditing, and recovery tools for Microsoft environments. He's been in this space for a long time — long enough to have
When AI Agents Go Rogue the Problem Starts at Runtime
4mo ago · 42:32
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 circling is how you actually secure agentic AI — and it turns out that’s a harder problem than most people expected. I sat down with Naor Paz, CEO and co-founder of Capsule Security, to talk through it. Naor spent years as a security practitioner and incident responder, moved into product leadership at F5, and is now focused on what he sees as one of the most underserved problems in enterprise security: stopping AI agents from going rogu
The Browser Was Already a Problem – Now Add a Billion AI Agents
4mo ago · 47:05
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 enterprise attack surface. Menlo has spent 13 years focused specifically on browser security. The idea is that the browser, not the endpoint, not the network perimeter, is where most enterprise work happens and most exposure lives. That was already a hard enough problem. Then you add AI agents into the mix. The Next Billion "Users" The framing Ramin kept coming back to is that the next billion users aren't going to be human. That's not a marketi
Why Ransomware Should Be Getting Your Attention Again
5mo ago · 50:46
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 like background noise — another attack, another breach, another company paying out. So when I sat down with Derek Manky, Chief Security Strategist and Global VP of Threat Intelligence at Fortinet, he started walking through the numbers from Fortinet's latest Global Threat Landscape Report. That got my attention again. The data isn't background noise. In fact, it's a pretty clear signal. This shows that things are getting more serious, not
The Agentic AI Hype Is Real — But So Is the Confusion
5mo ago · 42:12
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 — slapped onto products and platforms regardless of whether it actually applies. Marketing departments are busy. As Adi Kuruganti, Chief AI and Development Officer at Automation Anywhere, put it, we sat down to record the latest TechSpective podcast episode. When marketing departments get busy, clarity tends to suffer. Automation Anywhere has been in the automation space for over a decade. They helped create the Robotic Process Automatio
Why Cloud Still Feels Harder Than It Should Be
5mo ago · 38:15
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 without ever touching a piece of hardware. That’s a massive shift from the days when a “deployment” meant racking servers and hoping you sized things correctly six months in advance. But if you’ve actually been in the trenches—even recently—you know the reality is a little messier. Meet FluidCloud That’s where this episode of the TechSpective Podcast starts. I sat down with Harshit Omar, co-founder and CTO of FluidCloud, and we ended up
Most Companies Are Still Just Playing With AI
5mo ago · 56:05
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 transformative outcomes. Most of it is still theater. I had a conversation with David DeSanto, CEO at Anaconda, recently for the TechSpective Podcast, and what struck me most was how honest he was about where enterprise AI actually stands. Not where vendors want it to be. Not where the headlines say it is. Where it actually is. A lot of organizations have run pilots. Some have solid proof-of-concept projects. A handful have built interna
Rethinking Cybersecurity For A World Of AI And Machine Identities
5mo ago · 48:13
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 space keeps getting bigger. Not just more threats—more complexity. That’s really the thread running through my recent TechSpective Podcast conversation with Clarence Chio, co-founder and CEO of Coverbase. Security used to be easier to conceptualize. Not easier to solve, necessarily—but easier to frame. You had networks, endpoints, users, and a perimeter. Protect the edge. Monitor what’s inside. Respond when something goes wrong. That mo
Who Do You Trust Online—And Why?
6mo ago · 49:47
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 judgment call. Today, that math often fails. AI has changed the game. Deepfakes are convincing. Entire personas can be spun up in minutes. Fraud doesn’t look sloppy anymore—it looks professional. And in many cases, it looks exactly like the people and platforms we already rely on. That’s the backdrop for my latest episode of the TechSpective Podcast, where I sat down with Oscar Rodriguez, who leads product efforts around trust at LinkedIn. The
Why Identity Is the Key to AI-Driven Defense
7mo ago · 53:46
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 may surprise you, though, is just how central identity has become in that evolution. In the latest episode of the TechSpective Podcast, I had the chance to speak with Naresh Persaud, Principal at Deloitte, who has spent more than two decades working in identity and cybersecurity. Today, he leads Deloitte’s Cyber AI Blueprint initiative—an effort aimed at reimagining cybersecurity from the ground up using AI. Our conversation explores why
Zero Trust, Real Talk: A Conversation with Dr. Chase Cunningham
7mo ago · 38:19
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, where Dr. Chase Cunningham—better known to many as “Dr. Zero Trust”—joins me for an unfiltered, candid conversation about the state of modern cybersecurity. And no, this isn’t a puff piece on policy frameworks or the latest silver bullet tool. If you’ve read Chase’s recent LinkedIn post “Misaligned Zero Trust Spend = 1999 Firewall FOMO, But Worse,” you already know where this is going: straight into the hard truths about how organizations ar
Algorithms, Thought Leadership, and the Future of Digital Influence
8mo ago · 46:52
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 still mid-sentence. Just a few years ago, you could create a blog post, optimize it for SEO, promote it on Twitter (back when it was still Twitter and not a dumpster fire of right-wing conspiracy lunacy rebranded as X), and expect a decent number of eyeballs to land on it. That’s not the game anymore. Now we’re living in a world of algorithmic gatekeeping, AI-generated content slop, and platforms that are slowly morphing into echo chambers o
Shadow AI, Cybersecurity, and the Evolving Threat Landscape
8mo ago · 58:10
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 Etay Maor, Chief Security Strategist at Cato Networks and a founding member of Cato CTRL, the company’s cyber threats research lab. Etay brings a rare mix of technical depth and practical perspective—something increasingly necessary as we navigate the murky waters of modern cyber threats. This time, the conversation centers on the rise of Shadow AI—a topic gaining urgency but still underappreciated in many organizations. If Shadow IT wa
Agentic AI and the Art of Asking Better Questions
8mo ago · 53:00
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 talking about the same technology. But every now and then, I get the opportunity to sit down with someone who not only understands the technology but also sees its broader implications with clarity and honesty. This episode of the TechSpective Podcast is one of those moments. Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco, joins me for an unscripted, unfiltered conversation that covers more ground than I could have outlined in a s

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Your AI Agents Are Multiplying and Nobody’s Counting

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The AI Risk Blind Spot Most Organizations Don’t Know They Have

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Episodes 199

Your AI Agents Are Multiplying and Nobody’s Counting

The Attack That Turns Your AI Agent Into A Weapon Against You

Building an AI That Learns Like an Analyst

Most AI Problems Are Really Capitalism Problems

The Case For Rebooting Democracy With AI

The Remediation Cycle No Security Team Wants to Be Running

Remote Hiring Opened the Talent Pool — and the Fraud Surface

The AI Risk Blind Spot Most Organizations Don’t Know They Have

The Attack Surface Changed but the Fundamentals Didn’t

What the Breach Reveals That the Budget Never Did

The Agentic AI Reckoning Nobody Saw Coming

The Microsoft Enterprise Recovery Problem AI Can’t Fix

When AI Agents Go Rogue the Problem Starts at Runtime

The Browser Was Already a Problem – Now Add a Billion AI Agents

Why Ransomware Should Be Getting Your Attention Again

The Agentic AI Hype Is Real — But So Is the Confusion

Why Cloud Still Feels Harder Than It Should Be

Most Companies Are Still Just Playing With AI

Rethinking Cybersecurity For A World Of AI And Machine Identities

Who Do You Trust Online—And Why?

Why Identity Is the Key to AI-Driven Defense

Zero Trust, Real Talk: A Conversation with Dr. Chase Cunningham

Algorithms, Thought Leadership, and the Future of Digital Influence

Shadow AI, Cybersecurity, and the Evolving Threat Landscape

Agentic AI and the Art of Asking Better Questions