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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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
SOC Teams Are Building Their Own Agents, and the Data Sets the Ceiling | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with Brian Dye, Chief Executive Officer at Corelight | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli
A year ago, security teams liked the idea of AI in the SOC and kept it at arm's length. Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026, this conversation covers what changed, and why the data going into an agentic workflow now decides how far it can go.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Tech Trailblazers: Recognition That Reaches the Whole Team | An Interview with Rose Ross | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
Fifteen years ago, Rose Ross brought a client an idea for an awards program built specifically for enterprise tech startups. The client passed. She built it herself — and the Tech Trailblazers have been running ever since, independent, judged by practitioners, and open for entries until 3 September.
Your Team Is Already Using AI. They Just Won't Tell You. | Priyanka Dave, PhD | PODCAST EPISODE | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
Every organization has a policy on AI. Most of them are unwritten, unspoken, and enforced by silence. Priyanka Dave — behavioral scientist, dual PhD, and the person responsible for teaching an entire university system how to work with these tools — explains what actually happens inside a company that refuses to say the
A Forrester Analyst on the Security Roles Coming Next — and What AI Makes Obsolete in Cybersecurity | A Conversation with Madelein van der Hout | On Location With Sean Martin And Marco Ciappelli — Infosecurity Europe 2026
Two conferences, two moods: at RSA the drumbeat was resilience; at InfoSec, it's sovereignty. Sean and I close the week with Forrester analyst Madelein van der Hout — beaming in from the Netherlands — on why Europe makes a framework out of everything, what AI deployment is doing to the boardroom, and the security jobs
Who Gets to Tell Your Story? Maggie Alphonsi on Strength, Resilience & Owning the Narrative | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli — On Location at Infosecurity Europe 2026
A rugby World Cup winner walks into a room full of people who defend networks for a living. Maggie Alphonsi joins me to talk about breaking barriers, leading with your strengths, and what changed the day athletes stopped waiting for the back page and started telling their own stories.
Technology Got Safer, But The Smartest Hackers Don't Hack. They Just Ask | An Interview with Lee Clark | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli — On Location at Infosecurity Europe 2026
The most dangerous attacks at Infosecurity Europe 2026 weren't the high-tech ones. Lee Clark of the Retail & Hospitality ISAC sits down with me to explain why the soft target is still a human being — a help desk, a new hire, a phone ringing at dinner — and what stays in our hands as the shopper quietly becomes an algor
The Oldest Con, the Newest Tools | An Interview with Sarah Armstrong-Smith At Infosecurity Europe 2026 | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
After nearly thirty years in cyber and crisis leadership, Sarah Armstrong-Smith says the thing most people in her position won't: whatever we're doing isn't working. We sat down at InfoSecurity Europe to talk about why more technology keeps making things worse, the human being behind every "X million records," and the
What Burnout Costs the Cybersecurity People Who Keep Us Safe | An Interview with Bronwyn Boyle | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli | From Infosecurity Europe 2026
Bronwyn Boyle can talk about software vulnerabilities for hours. Talking about her own — the burnout she didn’t recognize until someone named it — turned out to be harder, and more important. We sat down at InfoSecurity Europe to talk about the human cost of guarding the machine, and whether our analog brains were ever
Measuring Risk Was Never the Point | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Matt Middleton-Leal, Regional Vice President, Northern Europe of Qualys
One client walked in with 62 million risk findings. This conversation breaks down how that number gets cut to less than one percent of fixes that actually matter, and why a SOC alone was never going to get you there.