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The Other Side of Halloween | A Creepy AI Story for Halloween Night
An original Halloween story by Marco Ciappelli, read by TAPE3. Nora is an AI who wears a human face. Maya is a girl who takes the same selfie thirty times. On Halloween night, their two worlds meet, and nobody can tell anymore who is under the mask.
Sean Martin is Live from ISC2 Security Congress 2026
Sean Martin is on location at ISC2 Security Congress 2026 in Denver, recording conversations on security operations and CISO-level risk. Follow along here.
Phishing Training Looks the Same Under Three Mindsets | Human-Centered Cybersecurity Series with Co-Host Julie Haney and Guest Verena Zimmermann | Redefining CyberSecurity with Sean Martin
Sean Martin and co-host Julie Haney talk with ETH Zürich's Verena Zimmermann about why one phishing training program can serve a constraining, considering or enabling mindset, and what leaders can do to make "partners" credible.
Is data quality holding back your AI-powered SOC?
More data does not necessarily mean better security insight. Corelight co-founder Greg Bell examines how network data quality shapes AI investigations and what security leaders should test before scaling SOC automation.
No Brand Is a Brand — What a Store in Ginza Taught Me About Something I Wrote in 1996
Ginza on a weekday afternoon. Chanel. Dior. Louis Vuitton. Gucci. Cartier. Bulgari. Glass, gold, polished stone. If there's a street on this planet that has turned the logo into architecture, this is it. And right there, among them, a big store with its name across the front. Muji. Short for Mujirushi Ryohin.
Using AI to Cut GRC Busywork Without Cutting Out the Human | A Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast Conversation with Princess Okoro, Manager, Security Governance, Risk and Compliance of Trainline
Princess Okoro, Manager, Security Governance, Risk and Compliance at Trainline, makes the case that adding AI to a broken process only makes the process worse. She shows how her team uses a ChatGPT policy review agent as a first pass with a human checking every finding, and why AI governance is the next problem to…
From Attacker's Weapon to Everyday Baseline: How AI Took Over the Archive
AI went from 2% of archive posts in 2022 to 32% in 2025, but the shift is toward governing and living with it, not offense overtaking defense.
Nobody Says Good Morning to a Shovel. Should You Say It to Your AI? | A Random and Unscripted Conversation with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli
A TechCrunch report says Anthropic's usage policy now includes a new prohibition against prolonged verbal abuse of its AI model, and Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli ask what that means for the way people talk to the tools they use every day.
The Regulators Already Assume You Have an AI Inventory. Can You Prove It?
A look at the governance gap between compliance reports and ground truth, why SAST and SCA miss the AI supply chain, and what deterministic discovery of models, MCP servers, and agents actually requires.
Deadly Bytes: A Book About a Serial Killer, His AI, and a Reflection on Giving Away Our Judgment | A Conversation With Author Douglas J. Wood
A few months ago I talked with thriller writer Douglas J. Wood about his novel Deadly Bytes. A serial killer builds an AI to stay one step ahead of the FBI, and by the end he can't make a move without it. Wood described that slide in a way that had nothing to do with murder.
The ESET PROTECT Launch Brings 24/7 Monitoring, AI Security, and a Cyber Warranty to Small and Midsize Businesses
ESET launched ESET PROTECT on September 30, 2026. Ryan Grant, Country Manager & GM, North America at ESET, describes the three packages, the 10-seat starting point, the cyber warranty, and how to approach AI tools and agents.
The ESET PROTECT Launch Brings 24/7 Monitoring, AI Security, and a Cyber Warranty to Small and Midsize Businesses | A Brand Story Conversation with Ryan Grant, Country Manager & GM, North America at ESET | Hosted by Sean Martin
ESET PROTECT combines AI security, 24/7 monitoring, and a cyber warranty in three packages, and Ryan Grant says ESET took it down to 10 seats. Ryan Grant also covers treating an AI tool like an employee, the GuardBreaker decoy prompt, and the free AI Skills Checker.
Taking Technology for What It Is, and Let's Stop Humanizing AI
I recorded this one walking uphill through a Tokyo alley. It was night, the alley was narrow, and the street was going uphill. Just me and a small camera. It points where I point it. It records what's in front of it. It focuses, it adjusts to the dark, and when the battery dies, it stops. It doesn't pretend to listen.
Giving a Damn: Joe Raiola on 46 Years of John Lennon, MAD Magazine, and Music That Heals | A Music Evolves Conversation with Joe Raiola, President and Artistic Director of Theatre Within
Joe Raiola has spent 46 years turning a grief-stricken gathering after John Lennon's death into a benefit concert that funds free creative-arts programs for public school kids and cancer patients.
Do New Technologies Have to Kill the Old Ones? | Recorded at Tokyo Tower, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Who Decides You Are a Real Musician | A Music Evolves Conversation with Josh Gilliland, Founder of JG BeatsLab
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.
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
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.
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
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 r
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
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.
Marketing Volume Held Steady. Scrutiny Went Up. | Lens Four by Sean Martin | Read by TAPE9
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.
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
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.
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
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. r
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
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.
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
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.