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Enterprise Security Weekly (Audio)
by Adrian Sanabria
News, analysis, and insights into enterprise security. We put security vendors under the microscope, and explore the latest trends that can help defenders succeed. Hosted by Adrian Sanabria. Co hosts: Katie Teitler-Santullo, Ayman Elsawah, Jason Wood, Jackie McGuire, Sean Metcalf.
Episodes
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Data Security in the AI Era, Don't Let AI Ruin your Presentation, and the Weekly News - Hadar Krasner - ESW #480
Interview with Hadar Krasner, Co-Founder and CPO of Bold Security This week's interview with Hadar is a fascinating dive into the history of data security and why they chose to tackle endpoint-focused data security. We discuss why securing data is traditionally such a challenging task, making it...
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State of the AI SOC, regulating AI, and can AI agents feel pain? - Aqsa Taylor - ESW #479
Interview with Aqsa Taylor Exaforce's Chief Security Evangelist, Aqsa, joins us to discuss the current state of the AI SOC and why it covers so much more than it did over 2 years ago, when our podcast first started covering this market. Exaforce also recently released AI Security and its ExaGo...
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Measuring the Value of SecOps; BH Interviews with Fortra, Helmet, Above, & Keeper - Kaushik Shanadi, Josh Davies, Tricia Howard, Christopher Crowley, Darren Guccione - ESW #478
Interview with Christopher Crawley - The Value of SecOps This week, we talk to Chris Crawley about his new book, The Value of Cybersecurity Operations. Chris has been training teams on security operations for years, but found that students often struggled to justify the importance of secops...
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Cyber Resilience with Cohesity, When to use AI for Writing, and the News - Rob Sadowski - ESW #477
Interview with Rob Sadowsky from Cohesity Global Cyber Resilience Report: Cyber Recovery Plans Weren't Designed for this Moment Cyber recovery plans weren't designed for this moment. Most were built around assumptions that made sense when they were written: incidents could be understood,...
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Safely exploiting vulnerabilities at scale, TVs attack privacy, and the news. - Snehal Antani - ESW #476
Interview with Snehal Antani Snehal Antani, CEO and co-founder of Horizon3 joins us to talk about how automated validation can help with exposure management. As vulnerability counts spike, security teams are looking for a way to prioritize. Automated penetration testing offers a way to quickly...
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Shadow AI Epidemic: Uncovering Agents on the Endpoint, British Library Breach, & News - Amit Assaraf - ESW #475
Interview - Amit Assaraf As employees rapidly adopt local AI models, autonomous agents, and browser extensions to boost productivity, enterprise endpoints are quietly accumulating unchecked security risks. This episode explores how traditional EDR solutions miss non-binary software, leaving...
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Life as a CISO in Hollywood: Keeping New Films Leak-Free & 4 Black Hat Interviews - Dan Meacham, Ellen Boehm, Ronan Murphy, Frank Vukovits, John Hultquist - ESW #474
Interview with Dan Meacham, CISO at Legendary Entertainment Dan Meacham joined us to share a preview of his leadership panel at InfoSec World. At this CRA event in October, Dan will be discussing The Augmented Defender - What AI Actually Changes on the Front Line with Daniel Bowden, the Global…
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Can employees safely use AI agents? AI pentesting agent liabilities, and the news - Rob Allen - ESW #473
Interview with Rob Allen from Threatlocker Safely enabling agentic AI for Businesses OpenClaw was the wakeup call and businesses wanted to know how to block it. "Easy," Rob Allen said, "it's already blocked if you're using Threatlocker." Now that things have settled down a bit, those same...
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Sandbox Escapes with Rubrik's Zero Labs, AI recorders eroding privacy, and the news - Joe Hladik - ESW #472
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...
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Three interviews: system fragility, operational clarity, and Identity for AI agents - Todd Thiemann, Robin Macfarlane, Kyle Sandy - ESW #471
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...
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AppSec, Shopify-Style; State of Mobile Security; the News - Kern Smith, Andrew Dunbar - ESW #470
Interview with Andrew Dunbar, CISO at Shopify After 13 years at Shopify, Andrew has some valuable insights to share on application security. In this episode, we discuss how AI has changed application security processes where bug bounty now fits in a post-Mythos, post-AI harness world. Andrew's...
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Exploring AI Network Protocols; Vulnerability Truths and Guarantees; and the News - Jeremiah Grossman, O'Shea Bowens - ESW #469
Segment 1 - Interview with O'Shea Bowens What do we really know about "AI Network Protocols"? Network security is about to get popular all over again. Generative AI caused a disruptive explosion across all of tech and every company's roadmap. The move from chatbots to AI agents doubled down on…
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AI Security at Scale, CMMC phase II paused, and the Weekly Enterprise News - Keith Hollender - ESW #468
Interview with Keith Hollender, CEO and Co-Founder of Arcova Why AI Security Is Becoming an Execution Problem, Not Just a Governance Problem As enterprises move from AI experimentation to adoption at scale, security leaders are under pressure to enable innovation without introducing unmanaged…
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Hungry? We talk Smoked Meat, Poutine, and Bagel - also, Identiverse Interviews! - John Pritchard, Cassie Christensen, Jaime Lewis-Gross, François Proulx, Kim Brown - ESW #467
Interview with François Proulx from Boost Security Software Supply Chain Security: Build Pipeline (CI/CD) Exploitation Boost Security is the creator of some very popular build pipeline security tools, like Bagel and Poutine. Today, we discuss their latest tool, Smoked Meat. They describe it as...
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Mastering agent permissions and Identiverse interviews - Howard Ting, Ajay Gupta, Sandy Bird, Amir Ofek - ESW #466
Interview with Sandy Bird, co-founder of Sonrai Security In this week's interview, we kick off the conversation with how Sonrai's expertise in securing cloud identity permissions had the company well placed to address the explosion of AI agents and the clear risks they represented. On the…
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Fixing pentesting, Meta is destroying its engineering org, the weekly news - Adriel Desautels - ESW #465
Interview with Adriel Desautels - the pentest is broken Adriel joins us for a discussion on the state of penetration testing, why it hasn't done much to help security teams over the last 20 years, and why AI won't save it. Segment Resources:...
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Navigating Shadow AI in the Enterprise, Verizon's SECOND 2026 report, and the news - Ankita Gupta - ESW #464
Interview with Ankita Gupta, CEO of Akto How to Navigate Shadow AI Risk in the enterprise This week, we discuss AI governance in the enterprise, starting with the nuts and bolts of how to discover and understand shadow AI. Following that, we dive into what security and tech leaders should do next...
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Safe AI at scale, what happens after initial access, and the weekly enterprise news - Albert Estevez Polo, Shiva Pillay - ESW #463
Interview with Shiva Pillay from Veeam Safe AI at Scale AI investment is exploding, yet nearly 90% of enterprise initiatives fail because the data powering AI cannot be trusted. That's the uncomfortable truth the industry is facing right now. Safe AI at scale requires more than just great…
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The State of AI in SecOps, the Unintended Consequences of Vulnmaxxing, and the News - Filip Stojkovski - ESW #462
Interview with Filip Stojkovski on the State of AI in SecOps Filip joins us to talk through the 2+ year rollercoaster that Security Operations tooling has been on since AI entered the chat. We discuss the AI SecOps market, which Filip closely tracks through his SecOps Unpacked project. We also...
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Helping defense's use of AI catch up with offense, cost of the vulnpocalypse, news - Evan Powell - ESW #461
Interview with Evan Powell - Generative and agentic AI are improving cyberattacks faster than they're improving cyber defenses. Offensive folks have been having the most luck with AI so far, which is further eroding any advantage defenders might have had. Evan Powell joins us to share some ideas…
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Visibility with EDR/MDR is still important, 'the basics' are impossible, and the news - Rob Allen - ESW #460
Interview with Rob Allen from Threatlocker This week, Rob Allen from Threatlocker is with us to discuss the importance of EDR and MDR visibility. We discuss some real world attacks and anecdotes where EDR was able to save the day when threats were missed by other controls. Topic: Do the basics,...
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AI Has a data problem, cascading breaches, and the weekly news - Dimitri Sirota - ESW #459
Interview with Dimitri Sirota from BigID Most organizations think AI risk lives in the model – or the identity. It doesn't. It lives in the data. In this episode, BigID's CEO reframes the conversation: why legacy access controls are breaking down, why visibility into sensitive data is the missing...
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The impact of Mythos and Florida Man, confidence gaps, phishing, & AI adoption - Chris Wallis, Deepen Desai, Erich Kron - ESW #458
The Weekly Enterprise News This week, in the enterprise security news, Copy Fail The hits keep coming for CVE, NIST and NVD Cyber attacks on breathalyzers insurance carriers pulling support for AI Florida Man pleads guilty ignore the humanities at your own peril offense and defense don't scale…
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Post Quantum Migration Struggles, AI Threats, and Modern Defenses - HD Moore, Ramin Farassat, Eyal Benishti, Daniel dos Santos, Bobby Ford - ESW #457
Interview with Daniel dos Santos: Post-Quantum Cryptography and the Risks No One Is Talking About Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is quickly shifting from theory to inevitability. In this segment, Daniel dos Santos, VP of Research at Forescout, explains why PQC isn't the most immediate threat...
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Rethinking Security from the OS Up in the Age of AI and more RSAC 2026 Interviews - Karen Heart, Sachin Jade, Phil Calvin, Craig Sanderson, Travis Wong - ESW #456
Rethinking Security from the OS Up in the Age of AI Karen Heart discusses a file-system–first approach to security, arguing that most modern attacks—including ransomware and supply chain compromises—succeed because they inherit user permissions and operate inside overly trusted system structures....
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Making AI actually work in the enterprise and more RSAC Conference 2026 interviews - Camellia Chan, Aamir Lakhani, Jim Spignardo, Jody Brazil, Ely Abramovitch - ESW #455
Interview with Jim Spignardo What does it take to build AI workflows that work? Why do so many fail? Jim isn't a typical ESW guest. I think it's essential for security folks to regularly step outside the security bubble and understand other perspectives and mindsets. That's what we're doing today...
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We catch up on the news, including AI vuln hunting; also more RSAC interviews! - John Wilson, Mark Lambert, Georges Bossert, Samuel Hassine - ESW #454
Segment 1: We cover the weekly enterprise news! Segment 2: RSAC interviews from ArmorCode and Filigran ArmorCode: AI Exposure Management and Governing Shadow AI AI is moving faster than most governance models can keep up. As organizations race to adopt new AI tools, developer workflows, agents…
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Battling payment fraud with tokenization and executive interviews from RSAC 2026 - Jimmy White, Thyaga Vasudevan, Brian Oh, Mickey Bresman, Ashish Jain - ESW #453
Interview with Brian Oh from FIS Global Merchant-Specific Tokenization: Making Embedded Finance More Fraud-Resistant Payment fraud has not gone away. It has evolved into a largely social engineering-driven problem that increasingly lands on security leaders' desks. In this episode, Brian Oh from...
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Oops, all Interviews: Switching to Cyber, CISO Reflections, and the State of TPCRM - Alexandre Sieira, Lenny Zeltser, Helen Patton - ESW #452
Interview with Helen Patton about her new book, Switching to Cyber Helen joins us to discuss her second book, "Switching to Cyber." Her first book discussed strategies for handling various stages of the cybersecurity career, while this one, co-written with Josiah Dykstra, provides a guide for...
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Can AI help critical infrastructure, the state of the cyber market, and weekly news - Mike Privette, Kara Sprague - ESW #451
Interview with Kara Sprague - The AI Fix for Infrastructure's Oldest Security Risks. Critical infrastructure, often built on decades-old systems and legacy code, remains vulnerable to cyberattacks. From pipelines and energy grids to transportation networks, we break down where critical...
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AI Governance, new book (Code War) from Allie Mellen, and the weekly news! - Jeremy Snyder, Allie Mellen - ESW #450
Interview with Jeremy Snyder from FireTail about AI Governance Death by a thousand cuts: the AI shadow IT problem I think the best description of the AI governance problem during this interview was the title of the award-winning movie, Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. Generative AI has been...
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Breaking in with CrashFix, supply chain security, and CMMC phase 1 - David Zendzian, Anna Pham, Jacob Horne - ESW #449
Interview with Anna Pham Breaking in with ClickFix: Anatomy of a modern endpoint attack Cybersecurity company Huntress just published a report on a new ClickFix variant they've discovered, which they've dubbed CrashFix. This technique was developed by KongTuke to serve as the primary lure within…
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OT Security/business resilience, lack of incentives for securing software & the news - Ben Worthy - ESW #448
Interview - Ben Worthy from Airbus Protect The current state of OT security and business resilience In this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly, we sit down with Ben Worthy, OT Security Specialist at Airbus Protect, to explore the evolving landscape of business resilience in safety-critical...
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Bringing intelligence to assets, new White House cybersecurity strategy, and the news - Tim Morris - ESW #447
Segment 1 - Interview with Tim Morris Bringing intelligence to assets You've been through 6 CMDB projects in the last decade. None of them came close to the original goals, the CMDB was already out-of-date long before the project had any hopes of completing. Is building an asset inventory just…
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Hardware-level zero trust, don't trust AI with your employees, and the news - J Wolfgang Goerlich, Matias Katz - ESW #446
Segment 1: Interview with Mathias Katz What if you had enterprise-grade network security protections traveling with your users' laptops? What if it could be built into the laptop, but still stay safe even if the laptop OS and firmware were entirely compromised? Mathias and his company, Byos have...
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Clickfixed, Zero Trust World, and OpenClaw is out of control - but that's the point - Rob Allen - ESW #445
Interview Segment - Rob Allen - Clickfix "Clickfix" attacks aren't new, but they're certainly more common these days. Rob Allen joins us to help us understand what they are, why they work on your employees, and how to stop them! We tie it into infostealers and ransomware actors. Plenty of…
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Initial entry to resilience: understanding modern attack flows and this week's news - Warwick Webb - ESW #444
Segment 1: Interview with Warwick Webb From Initial Entry to Resilience: Understanding Modern Attack Flows Modern cyberattacks don't unfold as isolated alerts--they move as coordinated attack flows that exploit gaps between tools, teams, and time. In this episode, Warwick Webb, Vice President of...
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The future of data control, why detection fails, and the weekly news - Thyaga Vasudevan - ESW #443
Segment 1: Interview with Thyaga Vasudevan Hybrid by Design: Zero Trust, AI, and the Future of Data Control AI is reshaping how work gets done, accelerating decision-making and introducing new ways for data to be created, accessed, and shared. As a result, organizations must evolve Zero Trust...
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Making vulnerability management and incident response actually work. Also, the News! - Ryan Fried, Beck Norris, José Toledo - ESW #442
Segment 1 with Beck Norris - Making vulnerability management actually work Vulnerability management is often treated as a tooling or patching problem, yet many organizations struggle to reduce real cyber risk despite heavy investment. In this episode, Beck Norris explains why effective...
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The State of Cybersecurity Hiring, 2026 content plans, and the weekly news - ESW #441
First Topic - Podcast Content Plans for 2026 Every year, I like to sit down and consider what the podcast should be focusing on. Not doing so ensures every single episode will be about AI and nobody wants that. Least of all, me. If I have one more all-AI episode, my head is going to explode. With...
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Why are cybersecurity predictions so bad? - ESW #440
For our first episode of the new year, we thought it would be appropriate to dig into some cybersecurity predictions. First, we cover the very nature of predictions and why they're often so bad. To understand this, we get into logical fallacies and cognitive biases. In the next segment, we cover...
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Holiday Chat: Local AI datacenter activism, AI can't substitute good taste, and more - ESW #439
For this week's episode of Enterprise Security Weekly, there wasn't a lot of time to prepare. I had to do 5 podcasts in about 8 days leading up to the holiday break, so I decided to just roll with a general chat and see how it went. Also, apologies, for any audio quality issues, as the meal I...
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Internal threats are the hole in Cybersecurity's donut - Frank Vukovits - ESW #438
Interview with Frank Vukovits: Focusing inward: there lie threats also External threats get discussed more than internal threats. There's a bit of a streetlight effect here: external threats are more visible, easier to track, and sharing external threat intelligence doesn't infringe on any...
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Illuminating Data Blind Spots, Topic, Enterprise News - Tony Kelly - ESW #437
Interview Segment: Tony Kelly Illuminating Data Blind Spots As data sprawls across clouds and collaboration tools, shadow data and fragmented controls have become some of the biggest blind spots in enterprise security. In this segment, we'll unpack how Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)…
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Fix your dumb misconfigurations, AI isn't people, and the weekly news - Wendy Nather, Danny Jenkins - ESW #436
Interview with Danny Jenkins: How badly configured are your endpoints? Misconfigurations are one of the most overlooked areas in terms of security program quick wins. Everyone freaks out about vulnerabilities, patching, and exploits. Meanwhile, security tools are misconfigured. Thousands of…
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From Misconfigurations to Mission Control: Lessons from InfoSec World 2025 - Marene Allison, Dr. Ron Ross, Ryan Heritage, Patricia Titus, Perry Schumacher, Rob Allen - ESW #435
Live from InfoSec World 2025, this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly features six in-depth conversations with leading voices in cybersecurity, exploring the tools, strategies, and leadership approaches driving the future of enterprise defense. From configuration management and AI-generated...
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Aligning teams for effective remediation, Anthropic's latest report, and the news - Ravid Circus - ESW #434
Interview with Ravid Circus Ravid will discuss why security and engineering misalignment is the biggest barrier to fast, effective remediation, using data from Seemplicity's 2025 Remediation Operations Report. This is costing some teams days of unnecessary exposure, which can lead to major…
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Year of the (Clandestine) Linux Desktop, topic, and the news - Rob Allen - ESW #433
Segment 1: Interview with Rob Allen It's the Year of the (Clandestine) Linux Desktop! As if EDR evasions weren't enough, attackers are now employing yet another method to hide their presence on enterprise systems: deploying tiny Linux VMs. Attackers are using Hyper-V and/or WSL to deploy tiny...
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OT Security Doesn't Have to be a Struggle, Spotting Red Flags, Enterprise News - Joshua Hay, Todd Peterson - ESW #432
Segment 1: OT Security Doesn't Have to be a Struggle OT/ICS/SCADA systems are often off limits to cybersecurity folks, and exempt from many controls. Attackers don't care how fragile these systems are, however. For attackers aiming to disrupt operations, fragile but critical systems fit…
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Transforming Frontline Workflows with Passwordless Access, AI costs, and the News - Joel Burleson-Davis - ESW #431
Segment 1: Interview with Joel Burleson-Davis Frontline workers can't afford to be slowed down by manual, repetitive logins, especially in mission-critical industries where both security and productivity are crucial. This segment will explore how inefficient login methods erode productivity…
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News, analysis, and insights into enterprise security. We put security vendors under the microscope, and explore the latest trends that can help defenders succeed. Hosted by Adrian Sanabria. Co hosts: Katie Teitler-Santullo, Ayman Elsawah, Jason Wood, Jackie McGuire, Sean Metcalf.
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