The Internet Has No Off Switch: AI’s Security Debt, ICANN Lessons & the Scam Tsunami
The internet was built for a handful of universities, with no security where it seemed unnecessary. We’re now making the same mistake with A...
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The Secure Talk podcast reviews the latest threats, tips, and trends related to cybersecurity and compliance. Host, Mark Shriner, interviews leading cybersecurity executives, consultants, an...
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CMMC After the 60-Day Review: What DOD Decided, What It Didn’t, and What to Do Now
CMMC wasn't suspended. Only one piece of it was, and the defense contractors acting like the whole program went away are the ones taking on...
NIST's Victoria Yan Pillitteri: "Compliance Won't Save You" — Inside NIST 800-171
She helps write the rules the entire U.S. defense industrial base gets assessed against — and she's telling you compliance is the floor, not...
AI Agent Hacks Another AI Agent Inside Google — An Agentic Supply Chain Bomb
An agent anyone could talk to just pulled the levers on one almost nobody could reach — and it happened inside the crown jewels: a live code...
AI Is Eating Our Young: Data Center Revolts, Vanishing Junior Jobs & the EU AI Act
Communities are blocking $130 billion in AI data centers while the entry-level jobs that used to train the next generation of engineers quie...
Okta's Identity Chief: Most CISOs Can't Answer This AI Question
Which AI agents can access what? Are those permissions even right? And can you stop a compromised agent mid-action? Okta's Dan Cinnamon says...
Special Episode: CMMC Phase 2 SUSPENDED: What DOD Just Did, What It Really Means, and Why Little Changed
The Pentagon paused CMMC Phase 2 with zero warning — and half the defense industrial base is celebrating for the wrong reason. When the Depa...
An AI Security Maturity Model for CISOs, with Chris Cochran (SANS)
Half the room at Chris Cochran's leadership dinners still calls themselves AI skeptics. He argues they can't afford to be — because the adve...
Considering Security, Compliance and Revenue with David Grazer
Most companies chase certifications to win deals — but what actually keeps customers is something no audit can measure. In this episode, vCI...
Why you could fail your CMMC Level 2 C3PAO audit | Secure Talk with Logan Therrien
You did your self assessment and received a perfect 110 score, congratulations! You met with your C3PAO and scored less than 0. What happene...
Mark Zuckerberg has an AI twin. Who Is Mark Zuckerberg?
Mark Zuckerberg built an AI version of himself that attends meetings and approves budgets while he's elsewhere. That's not science fiction —...
CMMC Is an HR Problem, Not an Enclave Problem — Here's the Proof
The biggest cybersecurity failures in recent memory — Raytheon, Penn State, Georgia Tech — weren't caused by missing software. They were cau...
The ROI of Security Tested: What a new paper reveals about security value | Secure Talk with Minh Nguyen and Thi Tran
Why do most cybersecurity investments feel impossible to justify? Because the measurement tools are broken — built on gut instinct, not rese...
They Sold AI to Play God. China Never Got That Memo.
The West has been building AI like it's the apocalypse. China has been building it like it's a tool. That one difference — rooted in centuri...
The DOGE data breach at the Social Security Administration with Whistleblower Chuck Borges
Every American has a Social Security number. Most assume it's protected. Chuck Borges was the person responsible for that protection at the...
From 9/11 to Salt Typhoon: Why Backdoors Always Betray Us | Secure Talk with John Ackerly
On the morning of September 11th, 2001, John Ackerly was briefing White House officials on federal privacy legislation. Hours later, everyth...
A Con Artist Expert Explains Why Smart People Still Get Scammed | Secure Talk with Robert Siciliano
You consider yourself pretty tech-savvy. You know not to click suspicious links. You've heard the warnings. So why are more people losing mo...
When Federal Agents Ignore Court Orders: What Happens to Democracy? | Secure Talk with Claire Finkelstein
What happens when federal law enforcement refuses to follow court orders? In Minneapolis, ICE agents denied state investigators access to cr...
Shared Wisdom: Why AI Should Enhance Human Judgment, Not Replace It | Secure Talk with Alex Pentland
Most AI discourse swings between paradise and doom—but the real question is how we architect these systems to enhance human understanding ra...
The 2026 Planning Episode: 5 key security imperatives.
While most organizations treat security as a cost center, a select group is using it to win enterprise deals, open new markets, and outpace...