The ITSPmagazine Podcast

Episodes

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  Coding Is a Fraction of the Work. Harness Secures Everything After It. | A Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Rahul Sood, General Manager, Application Security at Harness | Hosted by Sean Martin 15.08.2026 16m

  AI is writing more code than ever, and almost none of the new constraint sits in the writing. Recorded on site at Black Hat USA 2026, this conversation looks at what happens to security, policy, and release velocity in the 70 to 80 percent of the life cycle that comes after the code exists.
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  Compliance Moves at the Speed of DevOps When Paperwork Writes Itself | A Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Travis Howerton, Co-Founder and CEO at RegScale | Hosted by Sean Martin 14.08.2026 13m

  The first CTO of the US Nuclear Weapons Program left government convinced that the checklist approach to audits was holding the whole industry back. At Black Hat USA 2026 he explains how compliance as code turns an 18-month authority to operate into something closer to 30 days, with a better risk posture on the other side.
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  Post-Quantum Readiness Starts With the Infrastructure You Buy Today | A Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Larry Lunetta, Vice President, Portfolio Technical Marketing at HPE | Hosted by Sean Martin 14.08.2026 16m

  A problem first described in 1994 now sits inside a three year window, and the data being stolen today is already being saved for it. Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026, this conversation walks through what post-quantum readiness asks of security leaders before the machine that breaks RSA ever arrives.
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  Agents Get Zero Trust, and the Network Becomes the Sensor | A Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with David Hughes, SVP and GM of SASE and Security for Networking at HPE | Hosted by Sean Martin 14.08.2026 15m

  Zero trust was built for people, and the fastest growing population on the enterprise network now has no pulse. David Hughes explains how HPE adapts the architecture for devices, workloads, and agents, and why the network itself is becoming the security team's sensor.
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  AI Agents Act at Machine Speed. Menlo Security Governs What They Actually Do. | A Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Eric Avigdor, Vice President of Product of Menlo Security | Hosted by Sean Martin 14.08.2026 15m

  Enterprises are handing AI agents access to email, file stores, and the open internet at the same time, and most of them have not decided who owns the guardrails. Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026, this conversation looks at what changes when the thing reading your web pages has no human skepticism.
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  Adversary Behavior Outlasts the Ransomware Brand | A Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Michael DeBolt, President and Chief Intelligence Officer of Intel 471 | Hosted by Sean Martin 14.08.2026 16m

  Ransomware groups disband and rebrand, but the people running them keep using what works. Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026, this conversation looks at what changes for defenders when the tracking follows the actor instead of the logo.
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  10,000 Alerts a Day, 75% Cleared With Evidence Analysts Can Check | A Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Seth Summersett, Co-Founder and CEO of Embed Security | Hosted by Sean Martin 14.08.2026 14m

  One security team was working through more than 10,000 alerts a day before roughly 75% of them stopped needing a human first look. Seth Summersett explains how that number held up under a competitive bake off, and why the evidence behind each decision mattered more than the decision itself.
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  Network Evidence, AI Triage, and Leaving People Better Than They Arrived | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with James Pope, Sr Dir of Security Product Research and Technical Marketing Engineering at Corelight | Hosted by Sean and Marco 14.08.2026 24m

  Black Hat builds a full enterprise network from nothing, defends it for four days, and sends some attendees home with a cleaner machine than the one they arrived with. James Pope explains how the NOC decides what counts as an attack when most of the traffic on the network is supposed to look like one.
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  The Last Mile of Security Operations Runs on a Local Model | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Karthik Kannan, Founder and CEO at Anvilogic | Hosted by Sean Martin 13.08.2026 13m

  Seven years after setting out to build a full security operations platform, Anvilogic says the vision is complete, with agents handling data, detection, triage, investigation, and case management under human control. Karthik Kannan explains why the last mile of AI in the SOC runs on a model that lives inside your own environment.
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  Agents in Production Need a Named Accountable Owner | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Sean Murphy, Field CISO for North America at F5 | Hosted by Sean Martin 13.08.2026 17m

  A security leader who spent years buying F5 technology now works inside the company, and four weeks in he is making the case that availability belongs in the security portfolio and that every agent heading into production needs a name attached to it. Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026, this conversation moves from board pressure and shadow AI to what a compressed detection window actually buys a security team.
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  Autonomous Remediation Is Already Running at Enterprise Scale | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Sumedh Thakar, President and CEO at Qualys | Hosted by Sean Martin 12.08.2026 11m

  Ninety days to fix a vulnerability turned into ninety seconds, and the window between disclosure and exploitation now closes faster than most teams can staff for. This conversation covers what shifts when detection, prioritization, and remediation stop waiting for someone to approve each step.
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  Stellar Cyber Puts Numbers Behind Agentic Auto Triage and Hands Analysts 19 Minutes Back Every Hour | A Full Sponsorship Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Lisa Liu, Corp Marketing and Comms Manager at Stellar Cyber | Hosted by Sean Martin 12.08.2026 13m

  A show floor full of AI claims, and one company arriving with customer-supplied numbers to put behind its own. Lisa Liu explains what 19 minutes per analyst hour, 1.5 reclaimed full-time analysts, and 99.7 percent agreement with human analysts actually change inside a security operation.
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  Protecting the Executive Means Protecting Everyone They Trust | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder and CEO at BlackCloak | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli 12.08.2026 15m

  A convincing deepfake now takes a laptop, a small voice sample, and about three minutes, and the person placing the call is rarely the executive. Chris Pierson explains why BlackCloak widened protection to the attorneys, advisors, assistants, and family members who surround the people attackers actually want to reach.
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  Thirty Gigs a Month Is the Practice | A Music Evolves Conversation with Frankie Raye, Singer-Songwriter 11.08.2026 35m

  Frankie Raye plays six or seven shows a week in the Tampa Bay area and has stopped aiming her original music at the charts, because the charts no longer belong to people. This conversation looks at what a working musician builds instead when the target moves out of reach.
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  The Budget Is Already Spent. The ROI Is in the Configuration. | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Michael Parisi, Chief Growth Officer of Steel Patriot Partners | Hosted by Sean Martin 11.08.2026 17m

  A client cut 250 thousand dollars from a 750 thousand dollar licensing bill in about a day, and the only thing that changed was who was looking at it. From the show floor at Black Hat USA 2026, a conversation about what security leaders are actually asking for when they stop taking the sales call.
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  Sovereign AI That Runs Where Your Data Lives | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Monzy Merza, Co-Founder and CEO of Crogl | Hosted by Sean Martin 11.08.2026 16m

  A security team that cannot send its data anywhere has spent years watching AI happen to everyone else. This conversation looks at what changes when the model, the data, and the verdict all stay inside the building.
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  AI Has Its Own Supply Chain | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Daniel Bardenstein, CEO and Co-Founder of Manifest Cyber | Hosted by Sean Martin 11.08.2026 13m

  AI is arriving in the enterprise faster than most security teams can inventory it, and the models, datasets, and agents coming with it carry a supply chain of their own. Daniel Bardenstein explains what security leaders are asking for right now, and why the answer still tends to arrive as phone calls, emails, and spreadsheets.
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  Customer Zero at Exabyte Scale | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Jeremy Powell, CISO of Sumo Logic | Hosted by Sean Martin 10.08.2026 15m

  Seven exabytes a day, 100 percent first level triage through automation, and 25 hours a week back per analyst. Jeremy Powell has been running his own company's platform in production for close to a year and explains what it changes about the SOC, the board conversation, and the analyst's job.
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  Vulnerability Backlogs Can Finally Reach Zero | A Brand Spotlight Conversation with Ondrej Vlcek, Co-Founder and CEO of AISLE | Hosted by Sean Martin 31.07.2026 17m

  A backlog of a million open vulnerabilities has never had a realistic path to zero, and the window between disclosure and exploitation keeps getting shorter. Ondrej Vlcek explains what changes when AI stops matching patterns and starts reasoning about code the way an attacker does.
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  Agentic Security Changes Everything | An On Location Conversation at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with John Sotiropoulos and Rock Lambros 31.07.2026 6m

  The window between initial access and the next attacker move has collapsed from eight hours to twenty-two seconds, and no human-paced incident response process survives that math. John Sotiropoulos and Rock Lambros close out a day of OWASP GenAI Security work at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with the launch of an Agentic Security Council and a Top 10 for LLM update built on real incident data.