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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.
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…
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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 s
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
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 f
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
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 e
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.