Three interviews: system fragility, operational clarity, and Identity for AI agents - Todd Thiemann, Robin Macfarlane, Kyle Sandy - ESW #471
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Release Date: 08/10/2026
Preventing a Breakout as AI Agent Threats Is One of Three Top CISO Concerns - Rob Allen - BSW #461
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Artificial intelligence has quickly evolved from a productivity tool into an active participant in many organizations' daily operations. As organizations give AI greater autonomy within their environment, they're also granting them access to sensitive systems and data. That creates a new challenge for IT and security teams: How do you enable AI to assist productivity without compromising security? Rob Allen, Chief Product Officer at ThreatLocker, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss how zero trust principles can prevent an AI breakout. Rather than relying solely on the AI tool's built-in...
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The Secret Word is Meow, Red Agent, GitHub, evoooo1bot, Hatman, DecryptAds, Copilot, Aaran Leyland, and More on the Security Weekly News. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:
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Augmenting Threat Intel Analysis with Agents - Chris Wallis, Sai Kiran Uppu, Ramin Farassat - ASW #396
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All sorts of cybersecurity disciplines are adopting agents to help humans save time and automate routine activities. Sai Kiran Uppu describes his work on creating a platform for agents to analyze external threat intel, examine internal systems, and present triage decisions to operators. This type of work is especially useful to orgs that deal with petabytes of data and thousands of systems. And, as Kiran notes, it's important to keep that scale from blowing up your budget or turning triage into a procession of false positives. Ideally, this kind of threat intel that's paying attention to...
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Sandbox Escapes with Rubrik's Zero Labs, AI recorders eroding privacy, and the news - Joe Hladik - ESW #472
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Interview with Jon Hladik - ChatMate Imagine a user asks an LLM a question about a document. An attacker then gains an interactive prompt on the user’s chat session, enabling the attacker to instruct the AI assistant to take actions on behalf of the victim. That is exactly the capability researchers at Rubrik Zero Labs were able to demonstrate in a recent study designed to test the bounds of LLM security. Join Joe Hladik, Head of Rubrik Zero Labs, as he breaks down the discovery of "Remote Prompt Execution," a novel vulnerability class that enabled full takeovers of Microsoft Copilot...
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Famous Mathematician feuds, Delta Flight 591, Lazarus, Akira, Computer History, Zoom, Clones, LiteLLM, Josh Marpet, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:
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The Breached WiFi AI Ports... What? - PSW #939
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Domain Security Plus BlackHat USA 2026 Interviews from Balance Theory and WiCyS - Greg Baker, Ihab Shraim, Lynn Dohm - BSW #460
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Using LLMs for Vuln Discovery - Rishi Sharma - ASW #395
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Three interviews: system fragility, operational clarity, and Identity for AI agents - Todd Thiemann, Robin Macfarlane, Kyle Sandy - ESW #471
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Interview 1: Robin Macfarlane from RRMac Associats The Mattress Money Principle: What a 50-Year Veteran Knows About System Fragility In this interview, Robin and Adrian discuss how technology has evolved over the past 50 years. Despite massive technological changes over the decades: the PC revolution, the Internet, smartphones, the Cloud, and now Generative AI - the majority of financial institutions still use mainframes and midrange machines. Why? We explore the reasons why older technology persists alongside the new and the lessons retiring technologists can pass on to new generations...
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The Mattress Money Principle: What a 50-Year Veteran Knows About System Fragility
In this interview, Robin and Adrian discuss how technology has evolved over the past 50 years. Despite massive technological changes over the decades: the PC revolution, the Internet, smartphones, the Cloud, and now Generative AI - the majority of financial institutions still use mainframes and midrange machines. Why?
We explore the reasons why older technology persists alongside the new and the lessons retiring technologists can pass on to new generations inheriting an increasingly diverse tech landscape.
Interview 2 with Kyle Sandy from Logically
Operational Clarity as the New Customer Experience
Kyle Sandy joins Adrian to discuss how prioritizing resilience affects how organizations should plan for incident response. In the past, security teams were focused on prevention and limiting breach damage. Today, boards want to know how long it will take to recover operations.
The interview wraps up with a discussion of the right and wrong way to handle a breach and the three most important things every company must get right in order to handle an incident well.
Interview 3 with Todd Thiemann from Omdia
AI Agents and Identity Security: How Enterprises Are Rewriting the Rules
Todd joins ESW with some eye-opening survey insights on the topic of IAM for AI agents. While cybersecurity conversations about internal AI use often revolve around the SOC and security operations, Omdia surveyed identity professionals for a more holistic enterprise perspective.
Unsurprisingly, AI agent use is as diverse as enterprise business units. The surprises are around where the budget comes from for these AI projects, and how authentication is handled.
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