The ITSPmagazine Podcast
ITSPmagazine Podcast, hosted by Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli, explores the intersection of technology, cybersecurity, and society. The show features conversations on topics like music, storytelling, branding, and conference coverage, examining how these elements influence the human experience. Originally a written publication, ITSPmagazine has evolved into a multimedia platform offering podcasts, articles, videos, and event coverage.
Episodes
We Made Everything Faster. We Never Defined Better. | Lens Four by Sean Martin | Read by TAPE9
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Almost every booth at Infosecurity Europe 2026 had settled on the same four words. Outcomes. Resilience. Sovereignty. Human in the loop. The messaging had grown up, more tempered than RSAC, more honest in its European register. The tell was quieter — almost none of it could connect those words to a definition of success a buyer could actually verify.
Strip away the polish and the s
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
ON LOCATION | Sean Martin & 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 that don'
The Identity Gap Behind Nearly Every Breach | A Brand Spotlight Conversation with Kevin Surace, CEO of TokenCore
For most of the internet's life, proving identity has meant proving something you know or something you hold: a password, a code, a text message. Kevin Surace, CEO of TokenCore, argues that era is closing fast. As one of the people who helped invent the AI assistant at General Magic, he has a clear view of why the same technology now makes faces and voices simple to fake.
Why isn't MFA enough? Bec
When You Can't Trust the Face on the Call | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Kevin Surace, CEO of TokenCore
In this Brand Highlight, Kevin Surace, CEO of TokenCore, catches up on a market that has accelerated faster than even his team expected. Biometric-assured identity has gone from the fringes to the core, and the clearest example is the video call: on Zoom or Teams, there is often no reliable way to know whether the person on screen is real, human, or an AI avatar. Surace points to cases where emplo
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.
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Maggie Alphonsi has spent her life refusing to let other people decide who
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
PODCAST EPISODE | 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 th
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 a harder name than “crime.”
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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
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What does it take to lead a 200-person security organization without coming up through the technical ranks? Tera Ladner, Deputy Global Chief Information Security Officer at Aflac, answers that question by describing a path that runs through information management, e-discovery, and a law degree before it ever reaches the security org chart. The result is a leader who looks at a prog
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
There is a con called the Spanish Prisoner. A letter arrives from a stranger: a wealthy man sits in a foreign jail, and for a small advance to free him, he will reward you many times over. The trick is at least four hundred years old. It is also, give or take a few details, the email sitting in your spam folder this morning.
I keep that in mind whenever someone tells me cybercrime is a technology
The Art of Standing Out When Everything Sounds the Same | A Music Evolves Conversation with Sam Young, DJ and Producer
Show Notes
What happens to creativity when every song, sound, and style is a thumb-tap away? Sam Young has spent more than two decades behind the decks in London, and his answer is blunt: originality is at an all-time low. As a DJ, producer, remixer, and founder of the record label WyldCard, he sits at the exact point where taste, technology, and commerce collide, and he sees a culture increasingl
A Crime Against Time | An Interview with Rik Ferguson | Redefining CyberSecurity With Sean Martin — On Location at InfoSecurity Europe 2026
PODCAST EPISODE | Redefining CyberSecurity With Sean Martin — On Location at InfoSecurity Europe 2026
On Location With Sean Martin And Marco Ciappelli
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 comfor
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
PODCAST EPISODE | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age — On Location at InfoSecurity Europe 2026
On Location With Sean Martin And Marco Ciappelli
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 o
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 2026
On 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 how a government writes cyber policy fast enough to matter, and why “resilience”
Connecting Secure Storage to the Bigger Security Picture | A Brand Highlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Jeanclaude Toma, Chief Executive Officer of Apricorn
At Infosecurity Europe 2026, Jeanclaude Toma, Chief Executive Officer of Apricorn, joins Sean Martin to reframe where secure storage fits in the security conversation. After roughly four decades building hardware-encrypted drives, Apricorn wants the market to treat storage as a security decision rather than a hardware afterthought.
How does a storage device become a security control? Toma points t
Sixty Products, One Engine | A Brand Highlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with VimalRaj Sampathkumar, Head of Technical Operations, UK & Ireland of ManageEngine
At Infosecurity Europe 2026 in London, VimalRaj Sampathkumar, Head of Technical Operations for the UK and Ireland at ManageEngine, opens with a sharp observation: the market does not lack tools, it lacks tools that work together. After 16 years with the company, he has watched IT and security teams collect software faster than they can connect it.
ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation, buil
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
At Infosecurity Europe 2026 in London, Bill Peterson, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Sumo Logic, joins us to unpack a tension every regulated security team knows well. When an incident hits, the business has to keep running. At the same time, regulators expect sensitive data to stay in region. For a long time, those two demands have pulled in opposite directions.
Sumo Logic has spent 15 y
Measuring Risk Was Never the Point | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Matt Middleton-Leal, Regional Vice President, Northern Europe of Qualys
At Infosecurity Europe 2026, Matt Middleton-Leal, Regional Vice President for Qualys across Northern Europe, joins Sean Martin inside the Risk Operations Center built into the Qualys booth. The premise is blunt: cybersecurity has spent years getting good at measuring risk and almost no time getting good at fixing it. The Risk Operations Center, or ROC, is the Qualys answer to that imbalance.
So wh
When the Boardroom Asks "Are We Okay?" | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Ian Schenkel, VP Sales, EMEA & APAC of Intel 471
Something has changed at the board level. Recorded in the media room at Infosecurity Europe 2026 in London, Ian Schenkel, VP Sales, EMEA & APAC of Intel 471, describes directors who no longer take security on faith. After a year of headline breaches from Jaguar Land Rover to Marks and Spencer and the Co-op, leadership wants proof rather than promises.
What does the board actually want to know? A s
Seeing What Your EDR Can't | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Matt Ellison, Director of Sales Engineering EMEA & APAC of Corelight
At Infosecurity Europe 2026 in London, Matt Ellison, Director of Sales Engineering EMEA & APAC at Corelight, joins Sean Martin to unpack the visibility gap widening across security operations. The SOC is either drowning in data or missing the data that matters most. Corelight, custodian of the open-source Zeek project, builds a platform that turns raw network traffic into evidence teams can actual
Resilience Is the New Compliance: Why Recovery Is the Real Test of Cyber Readiness | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Pete Hannah, VP of Sales, Western Europe of Object First
At Infosecurity Europe in London, Pete Hannah, VP of Sales for Western Europe at Object First, joins Sean Martin to reframe a question many organizations still get wrong. The issue is not only how to keep ransomware out, but how quickly you can recover once it gets in. With Europe's regulatory landscape tightening, that distinction is becoming the difference between disruption and disaster.
What d
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
There is a moment in every conversation about cybercrime when the criminal stops being a shadow and becomes a person with a desk, a calendar, and a complaint about Monday. That moment is the one that interests me.
For years I’ve been told cybersecurity is a technical problem. Firewalls, patches, acronyms nobody outside the room understands. And it is, partly. But sit with Geoff White for fifteen m
Proof of Impact | Lens Four by Sean Martin | Read by TAPE9
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Almost nothing got said on the stages at Global Citizen NOW 2026 without a number behind it. $47 million toward a $100 million education fund. 27 organizations funded. 1,500 jobs from a single restoration effort. 18 million lives reached in one campaign. The headline was the money. The tell was quieter — a pilot to verify, record, and monitor every donated dollar with AI and blockc
When Patient Records, Powerlines, and Prompts All Lead to the Same Risk | A Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast Conversation with Gil Bashe, Chair, Global Health and Purpose of FINN Partners
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The healthcare system is, by some measures, the most targeted sector in cybersecurity. Patient records get lifted, hospitals get held for ransom, and the supposed protections often look more like antiquated friction than modern defense. Gil Bashe, Chair of Global Health and Purpose at FINN Partners, joins Sean Martin to explore why the systems meant to protect people's most sensiti
Telling the Stories of Cybercrime | An Interview with Geoff White | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
PODCAST EPISODE | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
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 get into the thing underneath all of it: how you make a crime nobody can see feel real to people who will never see it.
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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
Agentic AI was the theme that pulled away from the pack at RSAC Conference 2026. Tony Anscombe of ESET makes the case that once AI shifts from being directed by humans to operating with its own objectives and logic, the security surface changes with it, and organizations are being forced to rethink what they protect and how.
At the show, ESET announced two products that meet that moment head on. T
Tackling the Trust Crisis: Inside the 2026 HITRUST Trust Report | A Brand Spotlight Conversation with Vincent Bennekers, VP of Quality at HITRUST | Hosted by Sean Martin
Cybersecurity assurance was supposed to give boards, regulators, customers, and partners a clear answer to one question: can the security of the organizations they depend on actually be trusted? In 2026, that answer is harder than ever to come by. Supply chains are sprawling, attackers are pivoting through third parties, and too many assurance reports still rely on questionnaires, self-attestation
The Vendor You Cannot Name | Lens Four by Sean Martin | Read by TAPE9
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The most dangerous sentence in cybersecurity disclosure right now is "no evidence of unauthorized access to our network." It is technically true. It is also operationally hollow. The customer whose data is on a leak site does not care which network it left from. The plaintiff in Bexar County does not care. The regulator about to receive a federal incident report under a 72-hour clo
The Artemis Generation (feat. Dr. Polanski, Lowell Observatory) | Stories From Space Podcast With Matthew S Williams
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From Apollo to Artemis: What Lowell Observatory Knows About Going Back to the Moon
Fifty years is a long time to forget how to do something. That is, more or less, where NASA stood when Artemis 1 left the pad — and whe
Book: Deep Future — Creating Technology That Matters | An Interview with Pablos Holman | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
PODCAST EPISODE | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
Pablos Holman has built spaceships, zapped malaria-carrying mosquitoes with a laser, earned thousands of patents, and is now betting his venture capital on the inventors Silicon Valley forgot to fund. His new book, Deep Future: Creating Technology That Matters, is a call to arms against a tech industry that got drunk on softwa
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
Enterprises spent the last decade hardening the front door for human users. Now a new class of worker is showing up to the same applications, asking for the same data, and acting on someone else's behalf. Shreyans Mehta, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Cequence Security, joins ITSPmagazine to talk through what changes when ten or more agents are operating in your name across email, code
Cruise To Mars | Three Ducks On A Journey | Written By Lucia & Marco Ciappelli (English Version) | Stories Sotto Le Stelle Podcast | Short Stories For Children And Dreamers Of All Ages
CRUISE TO MARS | THREE DUCKS ON A JOURNEY
Mama duck had two daughters, and she loved taking them on trips to faraway places. The two ducklings had few friends, but they often went out and about.
They played in the farmyard pretending to be a group, and even on their birthday, they ate the big cake all by themselves.
As a gift, Mama decided to take them on a cruise to Mars. She organized the trip
The Upside-Down Garden of Boboli | Written By Lucia & Marco Ciappelli (English Version) | Stories Sotto Le Stelle Podcast | Short Stories For Children And Dreamers Of All Ages
The Upside-Down Garden of Boboli
Stories Under the Stars — Lucia & Marco Ciappelli
Within the walls of the city of Florence there is a marvellous garden.
Little pathways through the green, bordered by pools and fountains.
Broad stairways that, climbed with eyes turned to the sky, give the illusion of being able to touch it.
This is the beauty that everyone can see and admire.
Beneath lies an unkno
New Book: Healing the Sick Care System — Why People Matter | An Interview with Gil Bashe | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
PODCAST EPISODE | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
The United States spends 18.7% of its GDP on health — two to three times what countries like Italy spend. Italy has a longer life expectancy. So what exactly are we paying for? Gil Bashe, Chair of Global Health & Purpose at FINN Partners, former combat medic, and author of Healing the Sick Care System: Why People Matter, joine
On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're Not Human — And Nobody's Asking | Written by Marco Ciappelli & Read by Tape3
An Analog Brain In A Digital Age — A Newsletter by Marco Ciappelli
On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're Not Human — And Nobody's Asking
There was a moment — brief, unrepeatable — when the internet felt like a genuinely open place. No profiles. No algorithms deciding what you deserved to see. No one monetizing the fact that you existed. You showed up, you explored, you talked to strangers in other
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 floor at RSAC Conference 2026 had one dominant frequency, and it was not subtle. Every booth, every hallway, every late-night conversation kept circling back to the same question: how do enterprises adopt AI agents without losing control of them? In a post-conference follow-up, Itamar Apelblat, Co-Founder and CEO of Token Security, translates what he heard on the ground into what the data now
Who's Managing Your Agent Workforce? (And Whose Budget Are They On?) | Lens Four by Sean Martin | Read by TAPE9
Every major enterprise platform this quarter — Salesforce Headless 360, Workday Agent System of Record, Microsoft Copilot Studio, SAP Joule, Oracle agentic, ServiceNow Moveworks, IBM watsonx Orchestrate — is pitching a control plane for your AI agents. But none of them is solving the real problem: who inside your organization actually owns the agent workforce, and who's steering it at the speed ag
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
RSAC Conference 2026 made one thing impossible to miss: AI is on every sticker, every slide, and every booth. Sorting signal from marketing has never been harder. Lisa Liu, Corporate Marketing and Communications Manager at Stellar Cyber, joins this Brand Highlight to continue a conversation that started on the show floor in San Francisco and was worth picking up again once the noise settled.
Stell
Cutting Through the Fog of More | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Michael Parisi, Chief Growth Officer of Steel Patriot Partners
RSAC Conference 2026 is in the books, and the post-event read is familiar. More vendors, more AI-driven marketing, more noise, and a buyer-side audience that increasingly cannot tell who to trust. Michael Parisi, Chief Growth Officer at Steel Patriot Partners, joins ITSPmagazine for a quick post-event catch-up on what he walked away with, and what is quietly shifting underneath all that volume.
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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 industry evolve, stumble, reinvent itself, and occasionally look in the mirror.
In the
Uniquely Familiar: A Lifetime Pouring Passion Into Guitars That Sing | A Brand Spotlight at The NAMM Show 2026 with John Page and Bryan Ray of John Page Guitars
At The NAMM Show 2026, John Page walks Sean Martin of ITSPmagazine through a hand-painted electric guitar called the Retablo. The motifs are lifted from the artwork that traditionally sits behind a cathedral altar, reimagined so the saints and icons are not from scripture but from the roots of American music. Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Muddy Waters. Howlin' Wolf. Mahalia Jackson. The canvases themselv
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
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Inside DW Drums: Custom Craft, Heritage Revival, and Drummer-First Innovation | A Brand Spotlight at The NAMM Show 2026 with Scott Donnell, Director of Brand Management of Drum Workshop, Inc.
At The NAMM Show 2026, Drum Workshop turned its booth into a walk-through of what a modern drum company looks like when craft, heritage, and engineering share the same floor. Scott Donnell, Director of Brand Management at Drum Workshop, Inc., guided us through a lineup that spans the DW Custom Shop, the revived Slingerland Radio King line, Latin Percussion, Pacific Drums and Percussion, and the br
DriveThru Hacking: When Your Dashcam Becomes the Attack Vector | A Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast Conversation with Alina Tan and George Chen
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What if the device quietly recording your daily commute could be turned against you in the time it takes to order a burger? That is not a hypothetical -- it is a demonstrated reality. Alina Tan, Security Architect and Co-Founder of HE&T Security Labs, and George Chen, Security Architect for a large global company, have spent years dissecting the attack surface of connected vehicle
Post-RSAC Conference 2026 Recap: Agentic AI, Data Sovereignty, and the New Security Perimeter | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Thyaga Vasudevan, EVP, Product of Skyhigh Security
If you walked RSAC Conference 2026 expecting incremental updates, you left with something very different. Thyaga Vasudevan, EVP, Product at Skyhigh Security, describes this year as unlike any prior conference -- not because of a single announcement, but because the customers asking how to secure agentic AI were the same customers already building and deploying it. The urgency was real, immediate,
Marketing, Brand, And Culture: Are You Paying the Silicon Valley Tax? A Conversation with Nick Richtsmeier of CultureCraft | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli
**About this episode**
What if everything you've been spending on digital marketing isn't an investment — but a tax? Nick Richtsmeier, founder of CultureCraft, joins Marco Ciappelli for a Brand Highlight that cuts straight to the root of why so many organizations feel stuck: not a marketing problem, but an alignment problem.
Nick introduces the concept of the Silicon Valley tax — the ongoing cost
Post-RSAC Conference 2026 Recap: Backup Is Security | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Anthony Cusimano, Director of Solutions Marketing of Object First
Anthony Cusimano, Director of Solutions Marketing at Object First, joined Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli for a post-RSAC Conference 2026 recap -- and his observations from the show floor offer a window into how the security industry is evolving. One of the most telling details came from just outside the Moscone Center, where a company had set up an AI-free zone: a place for attendees to catch the
You're Still Reading the Advisory. The Attacker Already Left. | Lens Four by Sean Martin | Read by TAPE9
When Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, the headline was the capability: an AI model that found a 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD and a 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability in FreeBSD — fully autonomously, no human in the loop after the initial prompt. But the story underneath the capability is a structural one about who gets early intelligence, who sets the disclosure timeline, and wha
When Sci-Fi Becomes the Business Plan | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Jacob Flores, Head of Research at Type One Ventures | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli
When Sci-Fi Becomes the Business Plan
A Brand Highlight Conversation with Jacob Flores, Head of Research at Type One Ventures
There is a version of investing that asks what the return will be. And then there is the version that asks what kind of future the investment makes possible. Jacob Flores, Head of Research at Type One Ventures, is working firmly in the second category.
Type One Ventures tak
When OT Goes Down, the Clock Is Already Running | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Rob Demain, CEO & Founder of e2e-assure | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli
When a production line stops, the financial damage is immediate — and the window to respond safely is narrower than most security teams realize. Rob Demain, CEO and Founder of e2e-assure, joins this Brand Highlight to explain why OT security demands a fundamentally different mindset than IT, and what organizations can do about it.
Operational technology runs the infrastructure that keeps the world
They Forgot Your Brand Before They Left the Booth | An On Location Conversation at RSAC 2026 with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli
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Walk the floor at RSAC Conference 2026 and you will find boxing rings, petting zoos, agentic AI everywhere, and very few answers to the question that actually matters: why should anyone trust you with their security? Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli have been watching this pattern for more than a decade -- and in this short On Location conversation, they turn the camera on themselve
Still Stuck in Compliance: How Come Security Hasn't Earned Its Seat at the Business Table? | An On Location Conversation at RSAC 2026 with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli
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Sean Martin had barely finished his coffee when two separate conversations with CISOs at RSAC 2026 landed the same way: security is not how the business grows, it is how the business stays out of trouble. Compliance drives the tooling. The security team does its job. The business does its job. And the two rarely meet in the middle.
That observation kicked off a quick but pointed ex
Continuous Security Validation in a World of Agentic AI | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Matt Stewart and Alex Grohmann of Impetum
The security industry has spent years debating which tools to buy. Impetum is asking a different question: are the tools you already have actually working? Founded by incident responders who saw the same failures across hundreds of breaches, Impetum built the Persistent Purple Team platform to simulate advanced threat actors inside customer environments on a continuous monthly basis -- not as a on
When Fraud Becomes a Business: Stopping Bots, Agents, and the New Economics of Attack | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Frank Teruel, Chief Operating Officer of Arkose Labs
Arkose Labs sits at the intersection of bot management, fraud prevention, and identity protection -- working with the world's largest consumer-facing brands to make fraud unprofitable. Frank Teruel walks through how the threat landscape shifted from nation-state actors and organized crime to fully democratized crime-as-a-service platforms, where MFA bypass kits are sold online and multi-billion do
When the Browser Becomes the Battlefield: Human and Agentic Security in the Age of AI | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Ed Wright, VP of Product Marketing at Menlo Security
At RSAC Conference 2026, the floor at Moscone Center was buzzing with talk of AI -- but underneath the excitement, a sharper question was forming: are enterprises actually ready to secure the AI systems they are rushing to deploy? Ed Wright, VP of Product Marketing at Menlo Security, joined Sean Martin on-site to dig into exactly that question. With 85 percent of knowledge workers now operating pr
One Key to Rule Them All: Physical Access, Digital Login, and Post-Quantum Security | A Brand Highlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Alexander Summerer, Head of Authentication at Swissbit
Most enterprise authentication today is still built on passwords or one-time codes -- and neither is phishing-resistant. Alexander Summerer explains that fraud remains the core challenge: attackers intercept credentials in the online channel, and users are burdened with complex password policies that slow them down without making them safer. Swissbit's answer is the iShield Key, a FIDO2-based hard
Securing Data Across the Hybrid Enterprise | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Thyaga Vasudevan, EVP, Product of Skyhigh Security
Most organizations are not cloud-only and, according to Thyaga Vasudevan, EVP, Product at Skyhigh Security, they are unlikely to become cloud-only anytime soon. Legacy on-prem applications, new AI workloads kept inside the firewall, and the growing cost of routing all enterprise traffic through a cloud proxy are pushing organizations toward a hybrid security architecture -- one that needs to enfor
When Every Second Counts, Who Knew What and When? | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Vaughan Shanks, Co-Founder and CEO of Cydarm Technologies
In the middle of a major incident, security teams face a brutal paradox: the faster things move, the harder it becomes to capture what's actually happening. Cydarm Technologies was built to solve exactly that. Vaughan Shanks, Co-Founder and CEO, describes the platform as a system of record for the SOC -- a purpose-built case management tool that captures who knew what, when, and why, in real time,
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
A decade ago, Kevin Gosschalk was talking CAPTCHAs and bot mitigation with Marco Ciappelli at a security conference. Today, at RSAC Conference 2026, the conversation has shifted to agentic AI -- autonomous systems that browse, click, and transact on behalf of users. For Gosschalk, the Founder and CEO of Arkose Labs, the technology has changed but the challenge is familiar: how do you tell the diff
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
The cybersecurity industry is good at finding problems. What it has struggled with -- for decades -- is fixing them. Sunil Gottumukkala, CEO and Co-Founder of Averlon, calls this the exposure window: the gap between when a vulnerability is discovered and when it is actually resolved. That gap is where real risk lives, and closing it is the founding mission of Averlon.
Speaking on location at RSAC
From Visibility to Actionability: How Asset Intelligence Drives Real Security Outcomes | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Angelos Kottas, VP of Product and Corporate Marketing at Axonius
Security teams have more data than ever -- and less confidence in it. Angelos Kottas, VP of Product and Corporate Marketing at Axonius, opens by sharing a striking finding from the Axonius Actionability Report: 55% of CISOs still run their environments off spreadsheets, and fewer than 20% have daily updates to their asset data. The result is a gap between what organizations think they know and wha
Vulnerability Management in the Age of AI: From Data Overload to Decisive Action | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Daniel DeCloss, Founder & CTO of PlexTrac
Security teams have always struggled with the gap between finding vulnerabilities and fixing the right ones. DeCloss built PlexTrac after seeing that gap firsthand as a penetration tester -- watching critical findings disappear into static PDFs and manual spreadsheets with no real tracking, no accountability, and no way to demonstrate improvement. The platform was designed from the ground up to cl
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
At RSAC Conference 2026, Eric Herzog, Chief Marketing Officer of Infinidat, sat down with Sean Martin for a booth-side Brand Highlight that reframes a familiar blind spot. Infinidat is a high-end enterprise storage company serving global Fortune 500 organizations and mid-range managed service providers -- and Herzog argues that leaving storage out of a corporate cybersecurity strategy means leavin
Giving AI Agents an Identity -- and a Leash | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Itamar Apelblat and Ido Shlomo of Token Security
Most organizations are not waiting for permission to deploy AI agents -- they are already in production, often without a clear picture of what those agents can access or who is accountable for them. Token Security was built specifically for this moment, and being named an RSAC Conference Innovation Sandbox finalist is confirmation that the market is catching up to the problem the company has been
From Network Evidence to Autonomous Defense: Corelight at RSAC Conference 2026 | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Vijit Nair, VP of Product Management at Corelight
Vijit Nair, VP of Product Management at Corelight, joins Sean Martin on the floor of RSAC Conference 2026 for a conversation about what it takes to move security operations from AI-assisted to AI-autonomous. Corelight is the fastest-growing company in the network detection and response (NDR) space, and Nair has spent six years helping build the platform from early network monitoring to its current
ISACA Takes the Helm of CMMC Certification: Building the Assessor Workforce the Defense Industrial Base Needs | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Todd Gagnon, Director, CMMC Assessor & Instructor Certification Organization (CAICO) at ISACA
ISACA has stepped into a defining role in the CMMC ecosystem, taking over as the CMMC Assessor and Instructor Certification Organization -- the CAICO -- for the U.S. Department of War's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. Recorded live at RSAC Conference 2026, this conversation with Todd Gagnon, the Director of the CAICO at ISACA, gets right to the heart of what that means for cybe
From Cloud to AI: Building Security Programs That Scale | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Rich Mogull, Chief Analyst of Cloud Security Alliance
At RSAC Conference 2026, Sean Martin caught up with Rich Mogull at the Cloud Security Alliance booth for a candid conversation about where enterprise security programs stand -- and what it takes to keep pace with AI. Mogull, who joined CSA as Chief Analyst in October 2025, brings a practitioner's instinct to a research-first organization, and he arrived with a clear mandate: help organizations sto
From Threat Intelligence to Cyber Resilience: What SMBs and Enterprises Need to Know Now | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Tony Anscombe, Chief Security Evangelist of ESET
On the RSAC Conference show floor, Tony Anscombe shared how ESET has expanded its threat intelligence offering with ECR reports -- designed to give commercial organizations both machine-readable feeds and human-readable analysis. The reason: threat actors are increasingly hard to attribute, they share tools, run coordinated campaigns, and reinvest profits into more sophisticated operations. Having
The Human in the Loop Is Not Optional | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Lisa Liu, Corporate Marketing and Communications Manager at Stellar Cyber
At RSAC Conference 2026, the expo floor runs on one word: AI. But Lisa Liu, Corporate Marketing and Communications Manager at Stellar Cyber, has been watching the confusion this creates in real time. Visitors at the Stellar Cyber booth are asking the same question: does AI in cybersecurity mean a tool that fights AI-powered attackers, a tool that is AI-based, or something else entirely? Lisa Liu's
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
Daniel Bardenstein, CEO and co-founder of Manifest Cyber, opens with a candid assessment: the fundamental problem hasn't changed since Log4Shell. Organizations still don't understand what's inside the software and AI they build and buy. A recent Manifest Cyber study found a 40-50% gap between how well CISOs believed their security posture was managed and how their own AppSec teams rated the realit
AI-Enabled SOC Operations: From Alert Overload to Autonomous Investigation | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Monzy Merza, Co-Founder and CEO of Crogl
The security operations center is under pressure from every direction -- rising alert volumes, fragmented data environments, and a skills gap that no amount of hiring fully closes. At RSAC Conference 2026, Monzy Merza of Crogl sat down with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli to talk about what the AI-enabled SOC actually looks like when it is working at enterprise scale.
Crogl recently published the
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
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been rethinking what it means to secure an enterprise network -- and the answer they keep arriving at is that security cannot be an afterthought. At RSAC Conference 2026, Mounir Hahad, Head of HPE Threat Labs, sat down with Sean Martin to walk through what that philosophy looks like in practice and what two major announcements at the show mean for security teams.
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The Backup Layer Is a Security Layer | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Anthony Cusimano, Chief Evangelist & Director of Solutions Marketing at Object First
At RSAC Conference 2026, Anthony Cusimano, Chief Evangelist and Director of Solutions Marketing at Object First, joins Sean Martin on the show floor to break down what separates truly immutable storage from the checkbox version. The answer comes down to zero access: no command line interface, no root access, no administrative back doors at any layer -- for customers or for Object First itself.
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Cutting Through the Fog: Trust, Outcomes, and What Real Consulting Looks Like | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Michael Parisi, Chief Growth Officer of Steel Patriot Partners
At RSAC Conference 2026, the noise is relentless. Vendor booths, AI pitches, and breathless marketing compete for attention at every turn. Michael Parisi, Chief Growth Officer at Steel Patriot Partners, joins Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli on the ground in San Francisco to name what too few are willing to say out loud: most of the conversation happening on the show floor does not reflect the conv
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, Founder and CEO of BlackCloak, sat down with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli for a conversation that has become something of an annual tradition. What started in 2018 as a category BlackCloak largely invented -- digital executive protection -- has become one of the most pressing concerns in enterprise security. Adversaries have figured out that the easie
Protecting Kids Online Since 2007 and in the Age of AI: Ben Halpert on Savvy Cyber Kids at RSAC 2026
In this episode from RSA Conference 2026, Marco Ciappelli sits down with Ben Halpert, founder of the non-profit organization Savvy Cyber Kids, to discuss the critical intersection of child development and technology.
Since its founding in 2007, Savvy Cyber Kids has been on a mission to provide parents and educators with the tools needed to guide children through the digital world. Ben explains why
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 annual grant for Native Hawaiian students pursuing careers in STEM and technolog
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: a Peloton story that accidentally became the best explanation of brand loyalty
Agentic AI at RSAC 2026: Revolutionary Tech or Just Marketing Noise? | Guests: Theresa Lanowitz and Joseph Carson
Is the RSA Conference floor a visionary glimpse into the future, or just an "AI blender" where every vendor tastes the same? Join hosts Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin as they sit down with industry heavyweights Theresa Lanowitz and Joe Carson to dissect the real sentiment of RSAC 2026.
Key Discussion Points:
The AI Agent Explosion: Everyone says they can secure your agents, but is there any actua
Beyond the Noise: A Senior Forrester Analyst’s Take on Securing GenAI at RSAC 2026
Is the cybersecurity industry just "agent-washing" its marketing, or are we on the verge of a revolutionary shift in how CISOs manage risk? Join Madelein van der Hout (Senior Analyst at Forrester), Marco Ciappelli, and Sean Martin as they record live from the RSA Conference to cut through the GenAI noise.
Key Discussion Points:
The CISO Challenge: Why security leaders are struggling to defin
Order of Operations: The Foundation Risk Healthcare AI Is Running Past | Lens Four by Sean Martin | Read by TAPE9
Healthcare's AI ambition and its data infrastructure are moving at different speeds. In this edition of Lens Four, Sean Martin examines what happens when those speeds collide — and who is accountable when the sequence is wrong.
🔍 In this episode:
82% of health systems have limited or no AI governance in place, while deployments proceed — Digital Medicine Society
58% of frontline clinical staff
