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KBKAST
by KBI.Media
Unlike every other security podcast, we don’t get stuck down in the technical weeds. Our remit is to speak with experts around the globe at the strategic level – how security technology can improve the experience and risk optimisation for every organisation. The Voice of Cyber® - In Partnership with Vanta
Episodes
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Episode 389 Deep Dive: Omar Santos | Attackers Already Have It - What New Frontier Models Mean for Your Security Strategy
In the first weeks of March, Omar Santos got early access to the model that became Anthropic’s Mythos. About an hour of testing was enough to convince him cybersecurity had changed for good. Omar, a Distinguished Engineer in AI Security Engineering at Cisco and co-chair of the Coalition for…
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Episode 388 Deep Dive: Dean Saunders | The Breach That Won't Look Like a Breach: Why AI Security Starts With Your Data
Most boards approved AI for the productivity gains, and far fewer asked what it would expose. Dean Saunders says conversations with large organisations usually start with models and end up on data: where it lives, who can reach it, and how quickly an agent can move it once staff have gone home.…
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Episode 387 Deep Dive: Dr Ahana Datta Fasel | China Doesn't Want What You Think It Wants
Dr. Ahana Datta Fasel has spent years mapping 30 years of China’s cyber operations, and she opens by dismantling the story most of us have absorbed. China isn’t only hunting our secrets. Sometimes it wants to know what we know about them, sometimes it’s watching its own diaspora, and often the...
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Episode 386 Deep Dive: Shane Buckley | Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? The AI Spending Reckoning
Shane Buckley, CEO of Gigamon, has watched the AI spending story turn in months. Companies that treated token consumption as a badge of honour are now blowing through their AI budget by day three of the month, with the bill hitting earnings reports and boardrooms. He explains why more tools never...
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Episode 385 Deep Dive: Reece Corbett-Wilkins | From Crisis to Resilience - Protecting Our Way of Life
Reece takes us behind the scenes of the Instructure incident, where his team fielded 65 instructions in 48 hours, and explains how a catastrophic cyber event actually gets run across insurers, government and thousands of schools at once. KB & Reece get into the hidden cost almost no one budgets...
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Episode 384 Deep Dive: Sumedh Thakar | Mythos Turned 30 Days Into 24 Hours.
When Mythos hit in April, the security world split between panic and hype. Sumedh Thakar, President and CEO of Qualys, joins KB to make the calmer case that Mythos accelerated an old threat rather than inventing one. They get into why zero-day vulnerabilities now need zero-day remediation, the...
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Episode 383 Deep Dive: Sarah Sloan | It Still Runs, But Can You Defend It? The End-of-Life Tech Reckoning
The tech running hospitals, power grids and government services often still works. Sarah Sloan, Cisco’s Head of Cybersecurity Policy for APAC, joins KB to explain why that’s the problem, not the reassurance it sounds like. Drawing on a new ASPI report Cisco funded, “Past its use-by-date,” they…
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Episode 382 Deep Dive: Quinton Anderson | Trust the System, Not the Agent – Zero Trust for the Agentic Enterprise
KB sits down with Quinton Anderson, founder of Aigentsphere, to challenge one of the most repeated lines in AI governance: that a human in the loop keeps you safe. His view is that asking people to approve task after task just trains them to say yes. They get into why you should never trust an...
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Episode 381 Deep Dive: Gijo Varghese | When a Cyber Attack Becomes a Public Safety Failure
Karissa Breen sits down with Gijo Varghese, Chief Security Officer at OT cyber security firm Secolve, to unpack an uncomfortable trade-off: the same connectivity and AI making power, water and transport smarter are also making them easier to break. Gijo explains how IT and OT convergence has...
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Episode 380 Deep Dive: Mark Thomas | Owning a Policy PDF Doesn't Mean You Govern Your AI
In this episode, KB sits down with Mark Thomas, IT governance and risk veteran, ISACA Hall of Famer and president of Escoute Consulting, to pull apart a problem a lot of boards haven’t clocked yet – the gap between owning an AI policy and being able to prove it controls anything. They get into…
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Episode 379 Deep Dive: Sean Duca | Confidence Is Not Permission - Rethinking Authority in the Autonomous SOC
Most security vendors are shipping AI that treats capability as authority. Sean Duca thinks that’s the mistake customers are already paying for. Back on KBKast for a third time, now as co-founder and CEO of getsoteria.ai, Sean makes the case that confidence and permission are two separate gates,...
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Episode 378 Deep Dive: Harman Kaur | Automation Isn't Transformation - From Intent to Outcome in Autonomous IT
The old security math is broken. Teams used to get roughly 60 days between a vulnerability going public and attackers using it. Harman Kaur, Tanium’s CTO, explains why that number has flipped to negative, and what it means when the patch you need does not exist yet. This conversation is about the...
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Episode 377 Deep Dive: Bradon Rogers | The Forgotten Workspace - Why Nobody Ever Secured the Browser
Bradon Rogers, Chief Customer Officer at Island, the company that created the enterprise browser category in 2020, joins KB to unpack why the industry spent two decades bolting security around the browser instead of building it in. They dig into whether organisations are solving complexity or…
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From SAP Sapphire - KB On The Go | Legacy Risk and the AI Trust Gap
KB is on the ground at SAP Sapphire 2026 in Orlando, where AI has moved beyond experimentation and into the center of enterprise decision making. In this KB On The Go episode, Maura Hameroff (CMO, Cloud ERP Private and RISE with SAP) makes the case that modernizing your core is a business...
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Episode 376 Deep Dive: Anna Wheeler | Synthetic Confidence - When the Board Believes the Machine
In this episode, Anna Wheeler, CEO of SSAW LLC, joins KB as she explains why so many cyber teams are stuck in event-driven strategy while calling it the real thing, why the doers can’t climb out of it because their KPIs won’t let them, and why visionary CEOs keep getting ousted when the board…
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From Cisco Live 2026 Las Vegas – KB On The Go | AI-Speed Attacks and the Race to Quantum-Safe
Recorded at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, where 20,000 operators, engineers and executives gathered at Mandalay Bay to shape the future of networking, AI and cybersecurity. KB sits down with two Cisco leaders confronting the problems AI is creating and the infrastructure built to outlast them.…
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Episode 375 Deep Dive: John Deeb | Governance Theater - Why Your AI Policy Is Really Just a Set of Documents
John leads customer success, presales, and professional services across APAC at Workato and serves as Field CTO for the region. With more than twenty-five years of experience, including roles at Oracle and TIBCO and as co-founder of Rubicon Red, he focuses on helping enterprises unlock real,...
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From Atmos SPHERE 2026 – KB On The Go | Global Instability, Vendor Accountability, and Why the Energy Sector Is Already Ahead
KB grabs the mic backstage at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos for two conversations that sit on either end of the same problem: how leaders should be thinking about risk in an unstable world, and what it actually looks like when a sector has been living that instability for years. First up, KB sits down…
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From SAP Sapphire - KB On The Go | AI Theater vs the Real Thing
KB is on the ground at SAP Sapphire in Orlando, where AI has officially moved beyond experimentation and into the core of enterprise decision making. In two conversations, Marielle Ehrmann (Chief Security, Compliance and Risk Officer, SAP) unpacks why AI governance has entered the boardroom as an...
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Episode 374 Deep Dive: Mark Jones | The Department of No Is Over - Why Cyber Has to Lead AI Adoption
Mark Jones is Co Founder of MosaicalAI and has spent more than 25 years working across cybersecurity, technology risk, governance and resilience in complex environments where decisions need to be defensible and the cost of getting it wrong is high. His work sits at the intersection of security,...
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From Cisco Live 2026 Las Vegas - KB On The Go | Agents, Attacks, and the Invisible Threat
Recorded at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, where 20,000 operators, engineers and executives gathered at Mandalay Bay to shape the future of networking, AI and cybersecurity. KB sits down with two Cisco security leaders on the front lines of agentic AI. Peter Bailey, SVP and GM of Cisco Security,...
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From Atmos SPHERE 2026 - KB On The Go | Everyone's Business: Cyber Resilience from Government to Ground Level
KB grabs the mic backstage at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos for two conversations that couldn’t look more different on the surface, but end up pointing at the same thing: where cyber threats really come from, and who’s pushing back. First up, KB sits down with Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness,...
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Episode 373 Deep Dive: Pete Harteveld | The Digital Insider - Why Your AI Agents Are the Threat You Didn't Hire
Pete Harteveld was appointed CEO of Exabeam in October 2025 and most recently served as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer. He has more than two decades of leadership experience having built a reputation for scaling revenue and building high-performing global teams across the cybersecurity and...
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From ISACA 2026 North America Conference - KB On The Go | AI Puts Its Hard Hat On: Agents, ROI, and the Governance Reset
KB is on the ground at the ISACA 2026 North American Conference in Las Vegas, this time for the AI conversation that’s reshaping ROI, risk and governance all at once. Sushila Nair, Independent Information Security Consultant, and President of the ISACA Greater Washington D.C. chapter, opens with...
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Episode 372 Deep Dive: Vincent Lavergne | The Token Economy, Agentic AI, and the Real State of the Market
As a specialist in networking and software development, Vincent joined the F5 team in France in 2000 as a pre-sales engineer. Having contributed to F5’s growth initially in the French market and South EMEA region, he took on several managerial roles before overseeing from 2018 the EMEA pre-sales...
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From Atmos SPHERE 2026 - KB On The Go | Same Fight, Different Languages
KB takes the mic behind the scenes at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos, where 1,500 people from across cyber, legal, tech and government packed a room to do something rare: shift the entire industry’s focus from the moment of crisis to what comes before it. In two conversations, Reece Corbett-Wilkins and…
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Episode 371 Deep Dive: Mayank Upadhyay | The Closing Window - Why Human-Speed Security is Already Too Slow
Snowflake has recently appointed Mayank Upadhyay its Chief Security and Trust Officer to lead security efforts. Mayank brings one of the most influential careers in enterprise security to Snowflake. During his more than two decades at Google, he shaped the modern security landscape, ultimately...
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From ISACA 2026 North America Conference - KB On The Go | Built on Borrowed Tools: Supply Chain Risk and the AI ROI Flip
KB is on the ground at ISACA 2026 North American Conference in Las Vegas, sitting down with two guests pulling at the same thread from different angles: the gap between how dependent we’ve become on modern tools and how little we actually understand them. First, Pam Nigro, SVP of Security and...
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Episode 370 Deep Dive: John Wojcik | The Silicon Valley of the Criminal Underworld
John Wojcik, Senior Threat Researcher, Infoblox: Based in Bangkok, Thailand, John is a seasoned threat intelligence researcher who has spent his career following cybercriminal activity in the Southeast Asia region. Recently, his work at Infoblox has focused on pig butchering as a service…
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From Atmos SPHERE 2026 - KB On The Go | Resilience And Recovery
In this episode of KB on the Go, recorded at Atmos SPHERE 2026, Karissa Breen brings together two conversations united by one uncomfortable truth: we have built fast, efficient, hyper connected societies, and quietly traded away our resilience. First, Karissa sits down with Admiral Mike Rogers,...
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Episode 369 Deep Dive: Dominic Vogel | Cybersecurity's Leadership Crisis - Why the Best People Are Walking Away
Dominic Vogel is a well-respected cyber security thought leader appearing on media news outlets across the world. As a veteran cyber security expert and thought leader, Dominic holds a proven track record across multitude of industries (financial services, logistics, transportation, healthcare,...
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Episode 368 Deep Dive: Dmitry Volkov | The Shift from Reactive to Predictive Cybersecurity
Dmitry Volkov is a cybersecurity veteran, technology entrepreneur, and the dynamic leader of Group-IB and its team of over 250 cyber defenders. Recognized as one of the top seven influencers in global cybersecurity by Business Insider, Dmitry is also a member of the Europol EC3 Advisory Group and...
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From Extreme Connect 2026 Orlando, USA - KB on the Go | Markus Nispel & Michael Jones
Recorded live from Extreme Connect in Orlando, KB sits down with Markus Nispel, CTO EMEA & Head of Office of the CTO at Extreme Networks, and Michael Jones (MJ), VP of AI and Innovation, Office of the CTO at Extreme Networks. Markus gets into why networks are now a boardroom conversation, what…
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Episode 367 Deep Dive: John Hines | The AI Readiness Gap
John Hines is the Senior Director of Enterprise Business for the Asia-Pacific and Japan region at Lumen Technologies. With more than 25 years of leadership experience in IT solutions and cybersecurity, John has led and grown businesses across diverse global markets. His expertise spans...
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Episode 366 Deep Dive: Davyn Baumann | A New Surge - Threat Intelligence
Davyn Baumann has been in the threat intelligence industry for over 10 years, and in that time has helped uplift cyber awareness by providing comprehensive strategic level intelligence for Australian government and critical industry organisations. Davyn currently is a member of the Custom...
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Episode 365 Deep Dive: Ashley Rose | Human Risk - The Next Frontier
Ashley Rose is the CEO and Co-Founder of Living Security, where she is building the future of workforce security through AI-native Human Risk Management (HRM). Her work sits at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and business transformation—helping enterprises turn human and workforce risk…
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Episode 364 Deep Dive: Malcolm Turnbull | Balancing Innovation, Security, and Risk
In this episode, we sit down with Malcolm Turnbull, former Prime Minister of Australia, current Chairman of Fortescue Future Industries, Senior Advisor to KKR, and Strategic Advisor at Semperis. Malcolm reflects on his leadership in launching Australia’s first national cybersecurity strategy and...
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Episode 363 Deep Dive: Nathan Thomas - Inside Oracle’s Multi-Cloud Strategy
In this episode, we sit down with Nathan Thomas, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), to explore Oracle’s evolving multi cloud strategy and the major trends shaping the cloud landscape. Nathan discusses the company’s shift from an Oracle-first approach...
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Episode 362 Deep Dive: César Cernuda | Trust, Trade & the New Data Diplomacy
In this episode, we sit down with César Cernuda, President at NetApp, as he explores the growing significance of data and the evolving role of trust, governance, and transparency in managing this strategic asset. César discusses how organizations and nations must build intelligent data...
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Episode 361 Deep Dive: Richard Stiennon | Why AI Security Will Define The Future Of Digital Defence
Richard Stiennon is Chief Research Analyst for IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the 3,051+ vendors that make up the IT security industry. He has presented on the topic of cybersecurity in 31 countries on six continents. He was a lecturer at Charles Sturt University in Australia.…
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From Elastic{ON} Sydney 2026 – KB On The Go | Mandy Andress
Data is exploding. Environments are getting noisier and the line between observability and security, it’s basically gone. Search isn’t just a feature anymore, it’s infrastructure. It’s how you see, how you detect, and ultimately how you defend from ai, power detection, engineering to unified...
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Episode 360 Deep Dive: Simon Cook | The Right To Be Forgotten, Navigating GDPR, IRAP and Global Standards in Physical and Cybersecurity
In this episode, we sit down with Simon Cook, Director of New Offerings at Genetec, as he discusses the convergence between physical and cybersecurity, and the impact of global standards such as GDPR and IRAP on industry practices. Simon details the shift from siloed teams to collaborative...
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Episode 359 Deep Dive: Omar Khawaja | Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity
In this episode, we sit down with Omar Khawaja, Vice President of Security and Field CISO at Databricks, as he explores the intersection of data, AI, and cybersecurity defense. Omar addresses the real fatigue facing CISOs amidst rising AI hype, emphasizing that combining high-quality data with...
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Episode 358 Deep Dive: Lisa Black | How Leaders Survive Major System Failures
In this episode, we sit down with Lisa Black, Director of Public Sector at Aeon Nexus Corporation, as she shares her perspectives on crisis leadership and organizational resilience when critical systems fail. Lisa draws from her extensive background leading government operations to highlight how...
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From The SimSpace Summit 2026 – KB On The Go | Rushell Hopkins and Stanley McChrystal (Part 2)
Karissa Breen [00:00:10]: Welcome to KB On The Go. I’m coming to you from my new place of residence, Orlando, Florida. And today I’m being hosted at the SimSpace Summit. Cybersecurity is hitting a breaking point, compliance checklists, tabletop exercises, and confidence claims. Aren’t enough...
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From The SimSpace Summit 2026 – KB On The Go | Peter Lee and Ernie Ferraresso (Part 1)
Cybersecurity is hitting a breaking point. Compliance checklists, tabletop exercises and confidence claims aren’t enough anymore, especially as AI accelerates both attack and defense. In this bonus episode, KB sits down with Peter Lee, Chief Executive Officer and President of SimSpace, and Ernie...
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Episode 357 Deep Dive: James Tennant | Why does AUKUS Need Sovereign Capital?
In this episode, we sit down with James Tennant, Partner and Head of JAPAC at Boka Capital, as he discusses why AUKUS needs sovereign capital to successfully deliver on its strategic ambitions. James explores the disparity between the headline-grabbing investments of AUKUS Pillar 1 and the...
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Episode 356 Deep Dive: Simon Hodgkinson | The Burnout Crisis in the Cybersecurity Community
In this episode, we sit down with Strategic Advisor at Semperis, as he shares his personal experience with burnout during his tenure as CISO at BP. Simon provides a candid look into the immense pressures and responsibilities of overseeing cybersecurity across a massive, global organisation,...
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Episode 355 Deep Dive: Sam Cummings | Will we see current LLM technology reach it's limits in 2026?
Samuel J. Cummings III is an award-winning data scientist, keynote speaker, and renowned thought leader in AI, specializing in complex reasoning and memory architecture. In his recent work he has created AI model architecture that runs 94% less tokens than standard LLMs. As Director of Education…
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Episode 354 Deep Dive: Lili Infante | The Growing Prevalence of Crime in the Crypto Space
In this episode, we sit down with Lili Infante, CEO of CAT Labs, as she discusses the evolving landscape of crime in the crypto space and her work combating crypto-enabled criminal activity. Lili, drawing from her experience as a former DOJ and DEA agent who pioneered the DEA Cyber Investigations...
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Unlike every other security podcast, we don’t get stuck down in the technical weeds. Our remit is to speak with experts around the globe at the strategic level – how security technology can improve the experience and risk optimisation for every organisation. The Voice of Cyber® - In Partnership with Vanta
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