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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
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.
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.
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
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
The Business of Extortion — Storytelling, Ransomware, and the BBC's Cyber Hack | Geoff White | PODCAST EPISODE | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age — On Location at InfoSecurity Europe 2026 On Location With Sean Martin And Marco Ciappelli
PODCAST EPISODE | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age — On Location at InfoSecurity Europe 2026 On Location With Sean Martin And Marco Ciappelli Investigative journalist Geoff White has read 300,000 leaked messages written by a ransomware gang in their own words, when they thought no one was watching. We talked about wha
Telling the Stories of Cybercrime | An Interview with Geoff White | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
Marco Ciappelli interviews Geoff White, investigative journalist and author, for An Analog Brain In A Digital Age Podcast. Geoff White goes where organized crime and technology cross, and he comes back with stories. In this one he announces his newest BBC series — the rise and fall of the Conti ransomware gang — and we
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
Post-RSAC Conference 2026 Recap: Backup Is Security | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Anthony Cusimano, Director of Solutions Marketing of Object First
After walking the RSAC Conference 2026 show floor, Anthony Cusimano of Object First came back with sharp observations about AI fatigue, the rising status of backup in security conversations, and what the Ootbi Mini is doing for organizations at the edge. This post-show debrief is a candid look at where the industry's m
Continuous Security Validation in a World of Agentic AI | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Matt Stewart and Alex Grohmann of Impetum
Most security teams believe their tools are working -- but belief is not the same as proof. In this Brand Spotlight recorded live at RSAC Conference 2026, Matt Stewart and Alex Grohmann of Impetum explain why continuous purple teaming has become the missing link between compliance-driven security and evidence-based con
Securing Data Across the Hybrid Enterprise | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Thyaga Vasudevan, EVP, Product of Skyhigh Security
As enterprises navigate the competing pressures of cloud adoption, data sovereignty, and the rise of AI agents, the promise of a cloud-only security architecture is collapsing under the weight of real-world complexity. In this Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026, Thyaga Vasudevan of Skyhigh Security lays out why hy
The Illusion of Transparency: What Most Organizations Don't Know About Their Software and AI Supply Chains | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Daniel Bardenstein, CEO and Co-Founder of Manifest Cyber
Five years after Log4Shell, most organizations are no more prepared for software supply chain incidents than they were in 2021 -- and a new wave of AI adoption is making the problem significantly harder. In this conversation from RSAC Conference 2026, Daniel Bardenstein of Manifest Cyber breaks down the illusion of tra
Giving AI Agents an Identity -- and a Leash | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Itamar Apelblat and Ido Shlomo of Token Security
At RSAC Conference 2026, Token Security co-founders Itamar Apelblat and Ido Shlomo explain why governing AI agents starts with identity -- and why the old approaches to access management were never built for agents that forget everything between sessions. If your organization has already deployed AI agents, this conver
Storage Is Part of Your Security Strategy -- Whether You Planned for It or Not | A Brand Highlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Eric Herzog, Chief Marketing Officer of Infinidat
Most cybersecurity strategies guard the edge, the network, and the apps -- but leave storage unprotected, even though 90% of enterprise data lives there. At RSAC Conference 2026, Eric Herzog of Infinidat makes the case for why storage belongs inside the security stack, and what guaranteed recovery in under a minute act
Agentic AI, Bot Economics, and the New Arms Race | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Kevin Gosschalk, Founder and CEO of Arkose Labs
When AI agents started masquerading as real users on the web, Arkose Labs founder Kevin Gosschalk recognized the pattern immediately -- because his company has been fighting bots for nearly a decade. In this RSAC Conference 2026 conversation, Gosschalk maps the agentic AI threat landscape, explains how intent-based det
Closing the Exposure Window: From Vulnerability Management to Remediation Operations | A Brand Highlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Sunil Gottumukkala, CEO & Co-Founder of Averlon
Security teams have spent decades getting better at finding vulnerabilities -- but the ability to actually fix them has never kept pace. At RSAC Conference 2026, Sunil Gottumukkala of Averlon explains why the industry needs to shift from vulnerability management to remediation operations, and how agentic AI is finally
When Trust Becomes the Product: Digital Executive Protection in a World of Deepfakes and Disappearing Privacy | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder and CEO of BlackCloak
At RSAC Conference 2026, Dr. Chris Pierson of BlackCloak joined Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli to talk about what it really takes to protect the people that attackers target most -- corporate executives, board members, and their families -- in the one place enterprise security cannot reach: their personal digital live
Security Is the Network: Integrating AI Firewall and Threat Intelligence Into the Fabric of Enterprise Defense | A Brand Highlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Mounir Hahad, Head of HPE Threat Labs of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
At RSAC Conference 2026, Mounir Hahad of Hewlett Packard Enterprise joins Sean Martin to unpack two major announcements -- an AI firewall built for enterprise AI governance and the formal launch of HPE Threat Labs -- and explain why security that lives inside the network is fundamentally different from security bolted
Empowering Native Hawaiians in Tech: Kahikina Scholarship | With Marco Ciappelli and Hoala Greevy
In this episode, Marco Ciappelli sits down with Hoala Greevy, founder of Paubox, to discuss a mission-driven initiative aimed at changing the face of the technology industry. What started as a celebratory giveaway of spam musubi for Paubox customers has evolved into the Paubox Kahikina Scholarship, a recurring $1,000
Everyone Is Talking About Agentic AI at RSAC 2026. Almost Nobody Is Saying Anything Different | With Marco Ciappelli and Theresa Lanowitz
Marco Ciappelli sits down with cybersecurity evangelist and thought leader Theresa Lanowitz at the end of day one on the expo floor for a conversation that cuts through the noise — from shadow AI and leadership accountability, to brand identity, to why most companies here can't articulate a message above the fray. Plus