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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
AI Has Its Own Supply Chain | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Daniel Bardenstein, CEO and Co-Founder of Manifest Cyber | Hosted by Sean Martin
AI is arriving in the enterprise faster than most security teams can inventory it, and the models, datasets, and agents coming with it carry a supply chain of their own. Daniel Bardenstein explains what security leaders are asking for right now, and why the answer still tends to arrive as phone calls, emails, and sprea
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.
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
Where Data Sovereignty and Always-On Security Operations Meet | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Bill Peterson, Senior Director of Product Marketing of Sumo Logic
For years, security leaders in Europe have been told to pick one priority: keep the business running, or keep their data compliant. This conversation from the Infosecurity Europe 2026 floor lays out why that choice is starting to disappear, and what it means for any team running a regulated SOC.
After RSAC Conference 2026, Reflecting on Agentic AI, Community, and the Evolution of Cybersecurity | A Brand Highlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Tony Anscombe, Chief Security Evangelist of ESET
Once the badges come off, the signal sharpens. Tony Anscombe joins from the other side of RSAC Conference 2026 to unpack what the week actually meant for agentic AI, community, and a cybersecurity industry that keeps circling back to the same first principles.
Securing the Mini Me Era: Why Agent Identity Alone Is Not Enough | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Shreyans Mehta, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Cequence Security | Hosted by Sean Martin
When ten or more AI agents are acting on your behalf across email, code, and customer data, identity tells you who they are but not what they should be allowed to do. This Brand Highlight unpacks how enterprises are moving from blanket access to job-scoped agent personas, and why that shift defines the next phase of sa
From RSAC Conference 2026 Floor to the CSA Report: What Enterprises Are Missing About AI Agents | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Itamar Apelblat, Co-Founder and CEO of Token Security
The hallway conversations at RSAC Conference 2026 all converged on one anxiety, and a new CSA report backs it up with numbers that should worry every security leader. Itamar Apelblat of Token Security translates what he heard on the floor into what enterprises need to do next about AI agents.
Building AI With Guardrails: Inside Stellar Cyber's Human-Augmented Autonomous SOC | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Lisa Liu, Corporate Marketing and Communications Manager of Stellar Cyber
After RSAC Conference 2026 saturated the show floor with AI on every sticker and slide, Stellar Cyber sits down to cut through the noise with a different message: not all AI belongs in every layer of the SOC. This Brand Highlight unpacks why the right AI for the right problem, paired with a human in the loop, is the pa
Before the Robots Run. More reflections from RSAC 2026 — The Power of the Community and the Machines We Invited In. | Written By Marco Ciappelli & Read By Tape3
This was my twelfth RSA Conference. I know that because I remember the first one, 2012, and I've been counting ever since — not out of habit, but because each year feels like a chapter in a longer story I'm trying to read in real time. Twelve years of standing in that same building in San Francisco, watching an indust
Do Androids Dream of Security Patches? Reflections from RSAC 2026 — Walking the Floor of the Agentic World | Written By Marco Ciappelli & Read by Tape3
Do Androids Dream of Security Patches? Reflections from RSAC 2026 — Walking the Floor of the Agentic World A new transmission from An Analog Brain In A Digital Age — formerly Musing On Society and Technology Newsletter, by Marco Ciappelli The theme of RSAC 2026 was "The Power of Community." Nearly forty-four thousand
They Forgot Your Brand Before They Left the Booth | An On Location Conversation at RSAC 2026 with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli
The expo floor at RSAC Conference 2026 is full of noise, spectacle, and buzzwords -- but ask a CISO what stood out, and they rarely name a brand. Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli unpack why so many companies invest in attention-grabbing tactics while missing the one thing that actually builds trust: a clear, differentia