The ITSPmagazine Podcast

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  Do New Technologies Have to Kill the Old Ones? | Recorded at Tokyo Tower, Tokyo, Japan 23.09.2026 4min

  I've interviewed more people than I can count. This week I tried something new. No guest. No co-host. Just me, a small camera, and 333 meters of orange and white steel behind me.
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  Who Decides You Are a Real Musician | A Music Evolves Conversation with Josh Gilliland, Founder of JG BeatsLab 17.09.2026 36min

  Spotify now weighs touring, merchandise, and social presence when deciding who counts as an artist, and Josh Gilliland fails all three while playing every instrument on his own records himself. He argues the industry's new AI guardrails are moats built to protect incumbents, and the musicians paying for them are independent.
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  When Everyone Can Build Their Own Tools, What Holds Security Together? | A Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast Conversation with John Linford, Security Portfolio Director of The Open Group 15.09.2026 27min

  Organizations are tearing apart their workflows and rebuilding them with AI-assisted tooling, which means the shelf life of a security architecture is now measured in months rather than years. John Linford of The Open Group makes the case that open standards are not the bureaucratic drag people assume, but the only thing capable of telling a security team why a tool exists before someone buys it.
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  Marketing Volume Held Steady. Scrutiny Went Up. | Lens Four by Sean Martin | Read by TAPE9 02.09.2026 22min

  Black Hat USA 2026 was not the year AI arrived, it was the year the industry stopped asking whether to adopt AI and started grinding through the four questions that come after it. Who is accountable, what is the evidence, where is the data coming from, and is the foundation actually configured to hold the weight.
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  Executives Can Now Invite Their Lawyer, Banker, and Dog Walker Into a Verified Circle of Trust | A Brand Spotlight Recorded On Location at Black Hat USA 2026 with Matt Covington and Tracey Moon of BlackCloak | Hosted by Sean Martin 02.09.2026 6min

  BlackCloak members can now invite anyone they rely on into a verified circle of trust inside Impersonation Protection, from the private banker to the person who walks the dogs. This Brand Spotlight includes a live walkthrough of a verification request being sent and answered.
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  Executives Can Check a Country's Risk and a Caller's Identity From the Same BlackCloak App | A Brand Spotlight Recorded On Location at Black Hat USA 2026 with Matt Covington, Senior Vice President of Product at BlackCloak | Hosted by Sean Martin 02.09.2026 4min

  A travel advisory page turns a destination country into a risk picture across physical, cyber, geopolitical, and social conditions, with embassy contacts and live incident reports available in the app. Impersonation protection lets a member challenge a suspicious message on a separate channel, and the circle of trust reaches the daycare provider, the private banker, and the key vendor.
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  A Secure and Compliant Business Is the Destination. Steel Patriot Partners Maps Five Routes to It. | A Brand Spotlight Recorded On Location at Black Hat USA 2026 with Michael Parisi, Chief Growth Officer at Steel Patriot Partners | Hosted by Sean Martin 29.08.2026 18min

  The destination is a business that can enter a market, keep a demanding customer, and work with other businesses on terms it can live with. Michael Parisi maps the five positions a company tends to stand in on the way there, and the three questions that identify which one it is.
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  Six Hours, Five Strangers, and a Song the Machine Could Not Write | A Music Evolves Conversation with Gregoire Gensollen, Producer and Chief Operating Officer of Tucker Tooley Entertainment 28.08.2026 47min

  A Hollywood producer puts five musicians who have never met in a room with a six-hour clock, then hands a generative AI tool to his host and gives him thirty minutes. What comes out of that comparison says more about creative labor than it does about the technology.
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  Executives Get Reached Through the People Around Them, and BlackCloak Protects That Whole Circle | A Black Hat USA 2026 Recap with Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder and CEO at BlackCloak | Hosted by Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli 28.08.2026 15min

  Chris Pierson unpacks what security teams actually pressed him on at Black Hat USA 2026, from how the AI works to why they want a relationship instead of a plug-in product. He also lays out why BlackCloak builds protection around the executive's whole trusted circle, and who inside the company he credits for two Inc. recognitions this year.
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  Attackers Relay Codes and Approvals. TokenCore Requires a Live Fingerprint Within Three Feet | A Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Kevin Surace, Chief Executive Officer at TokenCore | Hosted by Sean Martin 27.08.2026 17min

  A relay kit rented for $200 a month, a phishing PDF with no links, and one approved auth prompt is all it takes to hand a session to an attacker. This Brand Briefing from Black Hat USA 2026 gets into what identity looks like when access depends on a live fingerprint within three feet of the machine.
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  Two Inc. Awards in One Year Tell BlackCloak's Cloakers and Clients the Same Thing | A Brand Highlight Recorded On Location at Black Hat USA 2026 with Chris Pierson, Founder and CEO at BlackCloak | Hosted by Sean Martin 24.08.2026 4min

  BlackCloak picked up two Inc. recognitions in 2026, a Best Workplaces listing in June and a second consecutive Inc. 5000 ranking in August. Chris Pierson explains what each one confirms about the product, the market, and the people building the company.
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  An imperfect drink with a perfect story. My reflections from Black Hat USA 2026 | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age — An Audio Newsletter by Marco Ciappelli 23.08.2026 21min

  On day two we decided to go record our recap at the Black Hat bar. We got there too late to get a drink. The expo floor was closing, and the bartender must have had better things to do. Or another bar to tend, somewhere in a city that has more bars than it has hours. They called it a bar. At that time of the afternoon it was a counter with nobody behind it. Which is when I started thinking about the one bartender who would still have been standing there. An agentic AI one.
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  Business Owners First, Engineers Second, Compliance People Third | A Brand Spotlight Conversation with Jason Ford and Michael Parisi of Steel Patriot Partners | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli 19.08.2026 20min

  Steel Patriot Partners opens a client conversation with the business, then the engineering, then the compliance, and the order is not accidental. Jason Ford and Michael Parisi trace where that sequence came from, what it changes about the advice a client actually receives, and how an organization can find out where it really stands.
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  Sovereign AI Becomes an Operational Requirement, and Crogl Built for It From the Start | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with Monzy Merza, Co-Founder and CEO at Crogl | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli 19.08.2026 7min

  A free download, a hackathon running a few feet away, and a security community that has stopped asking whether AI belongs in the SOC and started asking who governs it. Monzy Merza explains why sovereignty, model choice, and consistency arrived together this year.
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  The AI SOC Moves Into Production, and Practitioners Want Hands on the Keyboard | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with Bill Peterson, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Sumo Logic | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli 18.08.2026 5min

  A week on the Black Hat USA 2026 show floor left Bill Peterson with three things he keeps coming back to, and the first is that the AI SOC has crossed from concept into production. The other two explain why practitioners are reaching for the keyboard and why vendor roadmaps now run in months instead of years.
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  Proof Is the Currency on the Black Hat Floor | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with Lisa Liu, Corporate Marketing and Communications Manager at Stellar Cyber | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli 18.08.2026 5min

  A few months after RSAC Conference, the questions on the show floor have changed, and the ask is data. Lisa Liu describes an audience that has tested what it heard, come back with sharper vocabulary, and put the burden of proof on vendors.
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  The Capability Is Already in Your Stack. The Question Is Who You Ask. | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with Michael Parisi, Chief Growth Officer at Steel Patriot Partners | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli 18.08.2026 5min

  The AI marketing noise quieted down at Black Hat USA 2026, and what surfaced underneath it was a concern most security teams already have the tools to address. A short on-location recap on non-human identities, configuration, and why security leaders are narrowing their circle of advisors.
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  Detection at AI Speed, Prioritization by Workflow, and Autonomous Elimination | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with May Mitchell, Chief Marketing Officer at Qualys | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli 17.08.2026 4min

  Three years of customer questions produced one answer on the show floor at Black Hat USA 2026, and it runs on detection, prioritization, and elimination. May Mitchell explains what changed in the AI conversation this year, and why ROI now sits next to governance in the same meeting.
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  Buyers Are Asking What the AI Actually Does | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with Daniel Bardenstein, CEO and Co-Founder at Manifest Cyber | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli 17.08.2026 7min

  A few months after RSAC Conference, the AI pitch on the show floor sounds about the same, and the people listening to it do not. Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026, this conversation tracks what actually moved between the two events and what buyers are now asking before they sign.
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  Vulnerability, Visibility, and Velocity Shape the Security Roadmap Now | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with Sean Murphy, Field CISO for North America at F5 | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli 17.08.2026 7min

  Three days of hallway conversations with CISOs at Black Hat USA 2026 left one pattern behind, and it comes down to three words that start with the same letter. Sean Murphy explains why the acceleration in security reads more like a physics problem than a technology problem, and why the agents now running in production belong on the org chart.