AI Security Brief
AI Security Brief explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, covering emerging attack techniques, zero-day research, and real-world adversary activity. The podcast features conversations with international law enforcement, AI policy leaders, and security leaders, providing actionable insights for security teams. Hosted by AI security practitioners Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs, each episode delivers one key takeaway. The show is powered by TrendAI threat intelligence and produced by N2K Networks.
Episodes
What do AI-driven ‘bank heist’ attacks mean for defenders?
Attackers aren't just using AI to steal data; they're using it to fight back while you investigate them in real time. And once an adversary is inside, why would they ever want to leave? That's the unsettling reality Tom Kellermann, VP of AI Security and Threat Research at TrendAI, lays out in this episode.
And the numbers prove it. According to a 2026 TrendAI survey of 46 financial-sector CISOs,
Is AI security actually a physical problem?
While AI might seem abstract, something that lives in "the cloud" is concrete. The AI applications we use every day run on GPUs in physical buildings, and Mark Houpt secures them. As Chief Information Security Officer at DataBank, he's watched those data centers go from anonymous warehouses to national security targets almost overnight.
Mark joins hosts Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs to make the c
Who governs your AI agents?
Your team spent a decade maturing privileged access management. Then AI agents arrived and they don’t log in like humans. Now your biggest insider threat is an AI agent that lacks the access it needs, and then it goes to get it.
In this episode Sundari Parekh, VP of AI Security and Cyber Risk Advisory for TrendAI™, addresses a hard truth: PAM was never fully solved, and non-human identity and age
Is the next frontier model your biggest threat or your best defender?
If you think the recent wave of AI-discovered vulnerabilities is a problem, Rob Bair of Anthropic has a reframe for you. Discovery is the easy part. Closing the remediation gap is now the defining security challenge.
Drawing on his experience in the Navy, in national security, and now frontier AI, Rob shares with host Johnny Hand what frontier models like Mythos actually mean for security leaders
Can agentic AI really find zero-days? Ask the hacker who won Pwn2Own Berlin 2026.
At Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, a security researcher used agentic AI to help her win. The AI surfaced real, verified bugs, then wrongly called her winning bug “not unexploitable in practice.” Spoiler - it was.That uneven record is exactly what security leaders need to understand about the promise and limits of agentic AI.
In this episode, host Dustin Childs sits down with Valentina Palmiotti – better kn
Is your enterprise AI strategy delivering ROI yet?
Your enterprise AI strategy isn’t as far along as you think. The reality for most organizations today is that AI is disrupting existing processes more than it’s delivering outcomes… so far. And according to Dr. Grace Trinidad, Research Director at IDC, that’s how it should be.
In this episode, host Johnny Hand sits down with Dr. Grace to discuss how AI adoption follows the same pattern as almost
Who’s responsible when AI starts making mistakes?
With over two decades of experience spanning global CIO and CISO roles Sachin Jain has a perspective on accountability that goes well beyond the CISO's desk. In this episode, Sachin shares why AI governance is a shared responsibility across the organization, and offers practical advice on one of the biggest challenges security leaders face: learning to speak the board's language.
What we cover:
How do we secure applications when anyone can code?
Ashish Rajan doesn’t sugarcoat what it means to be a security leader in the AI era. This is a moment where innovation is outpacing control. Where AI is being embedded into everything, often faster than organizations can understand, govern, or secure it.
Ashish is a CISO, trusted advisor, and host of both the Cloud Security Podcast and AI Security Podcast. He is also the author of the upcoming boo
How does AI change the economics of cybercrime?
Robert (Bob) McArdle has spent two decades tracking cybercriminals - from ransomware groups to nation-state actors to financially motivated crime organizations. As a result, he has a front-row seat on how agentic AI is reshaping the threat landscape right now.
In conversation with hosts Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs, Bob shares why agentic AI is a bigger game changer for cybercriminals than gener
Introducing AI Security Brief, by TrendAI.
AI Security Brief is a new biweekly podcast, hosted by Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs, unpacking emerging AI threats, vulnerability research, and the strategic decisions and investments security leaders are making right now. Featuring proprietary intelligence from TrendAI threat research and conversations with international law enforcement, policy leaders, influencers and security executives buildi
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