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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
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.
Thirty Gigs a Month Is the Practice | A Music Evolves Conversation with Frankie Raye, Singer-Songwriter
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.
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
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.
Vulnerability Backlogs Can Finally Reach Zero | A Brand Spotlight Conversation with Ondrej Vlcek, Co-Founder and CEO of AISLE | Hosted by Sean Martin
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.
Agentic Security Changes Everything | An On Location Conversation at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with John Sotiropoulos and Rock Lambros
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 Se
The Business Decision Hiding Inside FedRAMP's Consolidated Rules for 2026 | A Brand Story Conversation with Jason Ford and Michael Parisi of Steel Patriot Partners | Hosted by Sean Martin
FedRAMP's Consolidated Rules for 2026 are live, the dates are fixed, and the first decision they force on a cloud service provider is not a technical one. Jason Ford and Michael Parisi walk through what actually changes, what the transition costs beyond the budget line, and why the right answer is sometimes to walk awa
FedRAMP First: Modernizing the Defense Supply Chain Without Cutting Corners | A Brand Feature Conversation with Michael Parisi of Steel Patriot Partners and Jason LaPointe of Exostar
A FedRAMP deadline can either freeze a company or force it to get sharper. Jason LaPointe and Michael Parisi break down how Exostar cleared a moderate authorization on an accelerated timeline, built a new compliant platform without breaking its customers, and turned an audit into a growth engine for the defense supply
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
The Flood Made Everything Free. So Now We Pay for Proof. | Lens Four by Sean Martin | Read by TAPE9
On July 15, Tidal stops paying royalties on fully AI-generated music, and the same move is spreading through publishing, film, science, software, and hiring at the same time. When generating anything costs nothing, the proof that a human made it becomes the product, and the only question left is who collects the fee.
We Made Everything Faster. We Never Defined Better. | Lens Four by Sean Martin | Read by TAPE9
At Infosecurity Europe 2026, the whole floor agreed on the vocabulary: outcomes, resilience, sovereignty, human-in-the-loop, while almost none of it could define what success actually looks like. This edition of Lens Four argues the go-to-market caught up to the language, the capability did not, and machine speed just
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
The Identity Gap Behind Nearly Every Breach | A Brand Spotlight Conversation with Kevin Surace, CEO of TokenCore
Roughly ninety percent of successful breaches now begin by defeating the identity layer, and the multi-factor tools most companies just finished rolling out are exactly what attackers are walking through. Kevin Surace explains how AI turned faces, voices, and one-time codes into easy forgeries, and what it takes to pro
When You Can't Trust the Face on the Call | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Kevin Surace, CEO of TokenCore
Biometric-assured identity has moved from a fringe idea to the center of enterprise security, and the video call is now one of its biggest pressure points. Kevin Surace shares where TokenCore is headed, why banks are extending identity assurance to the customers who move money, and what security leaders should do befor
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
Cybersecurity Leadership Is a People Problem, Not a Technology Problem | A Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast Conversation with Tera Ladner, Deputy Global Chief Information Security Officer of Aflac
A deputy global CISO who came up through information governance and law school makes the case that the strongest security leaders lead with risk, relationships, and storytelling, not with technology. It is a conversation about non-traditional paths into cyber, building people-centric teams, and why the talent pipeline
Call It What It Is: When Ransomware Becomes Terrorism | An Interview with Cynthia Kaiser | Redefining CyberSecurity With Sean Martin — On Location at InfoSecurity Europe 2026
A ransomware crew can run through your whole company between dinner and dessert. Sean Martin sat down with Cynthia Kaiser — twenty years at the FBI, now leading the Halcyon Ransomware Research Center — on the speed of the threat, the human cost the industry keeps abstracting away, and why a slice of ransomware deserves
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
The Art of Standing Out When Everything Sounds the Same | A Music Evolves Conversation with Sam Young, DJ and Producer
London DJ and producer Sam Young argues that originality in music has fallen to an all-time low, and that algorithms, shortcuts, and a culture addicted to the familiar all share the blame. Host Sean Martin presses him on what it actually takes to stand out when streaming, sampling, and AI have turned sameness into the
A Crime Against Time | An Interview with Rik Ferguson | Redefining CyberSecurity With Sean Martin — On Location at InfoSecurity Europe 2026
Adversaries are stealing encrypted data today that they cannot read yet, and storing it until a quantum computer can. Sean Martin sat down with Forescout’s Rik Ferguson to talk about “harvest now, decrypt later,” why Q-Day is closer than the comfortable timelines suggest, and what the decisions you make this year have
When the Threat Moves Daily and the Law Moves in Years | An Interview with James Morris | Redefining CyberSecurity With Sean Martin — On Location at InfoSecurity Europe 2026
PODCAST EPISODE | Redefining CyberSecurity With Sean Martin — On Location at InfoSecurity Europe 2026On Location With Sean Martin And Marco Ciappelli The UK’s threats change by the day. Its laws change over years. Sean Martin sat down with James Morris — former Member of Parliament, now Director of the CSBR — to ask h
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.