RSAC 2026 | Protecting the Circle of Trust: Executive Protection with Dr. Chris Pierson, BlackCloak.

At RSA Conference 2026, Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin catch up with Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder and CEO of BlackCloak, to discuss the expanding threat surface targeting the personal lives of leadership teams.

Will AI Take Your Job? Reimaging Security Operations with Crogl CEO Monzy Merza At RSAC 2026

Nearly 40 percent of security alerts go completely unattended. That number alone tells you something is broken in how SOCs operate today. At RSAC 2026, Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin sat down with Monzy Merza, co-founder and CEO of Crogl, to talk about what it actually looks like when AI takes on the investigative work — and what that means for analysts, data fragmentation, and the future of the security profession.

RSAC 2026 | The Human-Augmented SOC: Lisa Liu on AI-Driven Security with Stellar Cyber

Every vendor on the RSAC floor is saying AI. But does that mean a tool to fight AI attackers, a tool built on AI, or a tool that protects your AI? The fact that you cannot tell from the messaging alone says everything about the noise in this market. In this episode from RSAC Conference 2026, hosts Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin sit down with Lisa Liu of Stellar Cyber to cut through that noise — and make the case that AI in the SOC only works when the human stays in the loop, gets better at their job, and is given the right tools to do it.

RSAC 2026 | Securing Data Across the Hybrid Enterprise: Thyaga Vasudevan on Skyhigh Security

The enterprise never went fully cloud. It never will. And now with data sovereignty regulations tightening globally, agentic AI multiplying the attack surface, and the browser becoming the primary workspace, organizations need a security platform that works consistently across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid — without forcing them to choose. In this episode from RSAC Conference 2026, hosts Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin sit down with Thyaga Vasudevan, EVP of Product at Skyhigh Security, to talk about three major RSAC announcements and the three major trends reshaping enterprise data security.

RSAC 2026 | The Identity-First Revolution: Securing Autonomous AI Agents | With Token Security

At RSA Conference 2026, Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin sit down with the co-founders of Token Security—Itamar Apelblat (CEO) and Ido Shlomo (CTO)—to discuss a critical new frontier in cybersecurity: Identity-First Security. Recognized as an RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox Finalist, Token Security is solving the "Non-Human Identity" (NHI) crisis exacerbated by the explosion of autonomous AI agents.

RSAC 2026 | Cutting Through the Fog: Michael Parisi on Trust with Steel Patriot Partners

At RSAC 2026, Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin sat down with Michael Parisi of Steel Patriot Partners, to talk about it means to be a trusted advisor in a space full of noise, and why the most important conversations happen nowhere near the booth.

RSAC 2026 | Absolute Immutability: Ransomware-Proof Storage with Anthony Cusimano of Object First

At RSAC 2026, Sean Martin meets with Anthony Cusimano of Object First to discuss the evolving necessity of immutable storage in a landscape where 96% of ransomware attacks now target backup data. They explore the concept of "Absolute Immutability"—a zero-access approach that ensures once data is written, it cannot be deleted or modified by anyone, including administrators, hackers, or even the vendor itself.

RSAC 2026 | What's in Your Software? Daniel Bardenstein on Supply Chain Risk with Manifest Cyber

Five years after Log4Shell rattled the security world, most organizations still don't have a clear picture of what's inside the software and AI they build and buy. At RSAC 2026, Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin sat down with Daniel Bardenstein, CEO and co-founder of Manifest Cyber, to dig into why the software supply chain problem hasn't been solved — and what it takes to move from the illusion of transparency to actual visibility.

RSAC 2026 | Threat Intel, Resilience, and the SMB Gap: Tony Anscombe on Cybersecurity with ESET

Prevention beats response. Intelligence beats reaction. And a security industry building the same MDR monoculture across every small business is creating a systemic problem. In this episode from RSAC Conference 2026, hosts Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin sit down with Tony Anscombe, Chief Security Evangelist at ESET, to talk threat intelligence, AI-powered defense, cyber resilience, and what ESET's upcoming SMB survey is already revealing about dangerous overconfidence.

RSAC 2026 | Security is the Network: Mounir Hahad on AI Firewalls & Threat Intelligence with HPE

Every organization is grappling with the same question right now: how do you embrace generative AI without handing threat actors a set of skeleton keys to your enterprise? At RSAC 2026, Sean Martin sat down with Mounir Hahad, Head of HPE Threat Labs, to talk about what happens when security stops being a bolt-on and starts being woven into the fabric of the network itself. The conversation covers HPE's newly announced AI firewall, the formal launch of HPE Threat Labs, and what the 2025 threat landscape actually looked like when you pull all the data together.

RSAC 2026 | ISACA Takes the Helm of CMMC: Todd Gagnon on Building the Assessor Workforce

200,000 companies do business with the Department of Defense. 120,000 of them will need a third-party independent CMMC assessment. Right now there are roughly 800 certified assessors to do that work. In this episode from RSAC Conference 2026, Sean Martin sits down with Todd Gagnon, Director of ISACA's CMMC Assessor and Instructor Certification Organization, to talk about what ISACA taking over CMMC certifications means for the defense industrial base, what the CCP and CCA pathways look like for professionals, and why getting a staff member certified may be one of the smartest moves any company in the government contractor space can make right now.

RSAC 2026 | From the 300-Page PDF to Decisive Action: Daniel DeCloss on PlexTrac

Security teams are not losing because they lack vulnerability data. They are losing because they cannot act on it fast enough. In this episode from RSAC Conference 2026, Sean Martin sits down with Daniel DeCloss, Founder and CTO of PlexTrac, to talk about what vulnerability management actually looks like on the ground — the 300-page PDF pen test reports, the spreadsheets, the siloed findings, the burnt-out analysts — and what a unified, AI-augmented platform changes about all of it.

RSAC 2026 | The Browser Is the Battlefield: Ed Wright on Agentic Security with Menlo Security

When the browser became the enterprise operating system, it also became the primary attack surface — for humans and AI agents alike. In this episode from RSAC Conference 2026, Sean Martin sits down with Ed Wright, VP of Product Marketing at Menlo Security, to talk about why 85% of knowledge work happening in the browser means attackers are there too, what happened when a Fortune 500 company deployed 20,000 agents overnight with no security guardrails, and why the headless browser is the blind spot nobody is talking about.

RSAC 2026 | From Visibility to Actionability: Angelos Kottas on Asset Intelligence with Axonius

Visibility is the foundation of security — but visibility without follow-through is just a compliance report. In this episode recorded live at RSAC Conference 2026, Sean Martin sits down with Angelos Kottas, VP of Product and Corporate Marketing at Axonius, to explore how the industry is shifting from simply knowing what you have to actually doing something about it. From the origin story of Axonius to the shocking reality that 55% of CISOs still rely on spreadsheets, this conversation gets to the heart of what it really means to move from insight to action — and why that distinction could be the difference between a five-minute delay and a multi-day catastrophe.

RSAC 2026 | When Every Second Counts: Vaughan Shanks on Incident Response Management with Cydarm

During a major cyber incident, the hardest question is rarely technical. It is who knew what, and when. In this episode from RSAC Conference 2026, Sean Martin sits down with Vaughan Shanks, Co-Founder and CEO of Cydarm Technologies, to talk about why the SOC needs its own purpose-built system of record and what happens when it does not have one. From the cautionary tale of a security leader who went five days without sleep while walking a SOC floor with a spiral-bound notebook, to the regulatory and legal pressure now demanding precise incident documentation, this is a conversation about the unglamorous but absolutely critical work of incident response management.

RSAC 2026 | Beyond the Annual Pen Test: Matt Stewart and Alex Grohmann on Persistent Purple Teaming

Most organizations run a pen test once a year, get their report, and move on. But the threat actors don't work on that schedule — and neither does your environment. At RSAC 2026, Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin sat down with Matt Stewart and Alex Grohmann of Impetum to talk about what persistent purple teaming actually looks like, why the annual point-in-time model leaves dangerous gaps, and how continuous validation is the only honest answer to the question: are my security tools actually working?

RSAC 2026 | Bots, Agents, and the Economics of Fraud: Kevin Gosschalk on Arkose Labs

Agentic AI is the hottest topic at RSAC 2026. For Kevin Gosschalk, Founder and CEO of Arkose Labs, it is also just bots — slightly smarter bots. In this episode hosted by Marco Ciappelli, recorded live at RSAC Conference 2026, Kevin reunites with an old friend for a conversation about why the bot problem never went away, how agentic AI is reinventing fraud schemes that were once too expensive to run, and why the real strategy has never been blocking everything — it has always been making attacks more costly than they are worth.

RSAC 2026 | When Fraud Becomes a Business: Frank Teruel on Stopping Bots and Agents with Arkose Labs

If you make fraud unprofitable, it goes away. If you do not, you make it inevitable. In this episode from RSAC Conference 2026, Sean Martin sits down with Frank Teruel, COO of Arkose Labs, to trace the evolution of fraud from nation-state actors and organized crime to fully industrialized crime-as-a-service platforms — and now to agentic AI. From SMS toll fraud running into the billions, to bonus abuse and loyalty program draining, to the 97% of companies expecting an AI-driven incident in the next 12 months, Frank makes the case that the fraud kill chain is accelerating and most organizations are nowhere near ready.

RSAC 2026 | From Cloud to AI: Rich Mogull on Security Programs That Scale with CSA

Cloud security needed its own frameworks. Zero trust needed its own frameworks. AI is no different. In this episode from RSAC Conference 2026, Sean Martin sits down with Rich Mogull, Chief Analyst at the Cloud Security Alliance, to talk about why CSA's sweet spot has always been transformational technologies — and why the new AI Security Program Maturity Model, combined with a redesigned membership program, might be the most practical thing CSA has ever built.

RSAC 2026 | From Advisory to Action: Vijit Nair on NDR and Agentic Triage with Corelight

The attackers are not waiting for a human in the loop. They are letting AI fly. The defenders are still deliberating. In this episode from RSAC Conference 2026, Sean Martin sits down with Vijit Nair, VP of Product Management at Corelight, to talk about the gap between AI systems that advise and AI systems that act — and how Corelight's new Agentic Triage product is crossing that line. From the resurgent demand for NDR driven by Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon-style attacks, to the Waymo analogy for autonomous SOC, to what 10x faster investigation speed actually looks like in practice.

RSAC 2026 | Storage Is a Security Layer: Eric Herzog on Cyber Resilience with Infinidat

Ninety percent of an enterprise's most valuable data sits on storage. Most cybersecurity strategies protect the edge, the network, the applications — and leave the storage completely out. In this episode from RSAC Conference 2026, Sean Martin sits down with Eric Herzog, CMO of Infinidat, to talk about why storage needs to be part of a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, what guaranteed recovery in under a minute actually means, and how immutable snapshots and AI-powered malware scanning give organizations the ability to restore to a known good copy — not just any copy.

RSAC 2026 | One Key for Everything: Alexander Summerer on Physical & Digital Security with Swissbit

One device. Plug it in to log into your computer. Tap it on the door to enter the building. And when quantum computing breaks today's cryptography, swap the algorithm — not the key. In this episode from RSAC Conference 2026, Sean Martin sits down with Alexander Summerer, Head of Authentication at Swissbit, to talk about why phishing-resistant hardware security is the right answer for enterprise authentication, and how Swissbit is the only vendor combining physical access, digital login, and post-quantum cryptography in a single device.

RSAC 2026 | Closing the Exposure Window: Sunil Gottumukkala on Remediation Operations with Averlon

The security industry has spent decades getting better at finding vulnerabilities. The problem is we never got good at fixing them. In this episode from RSAC Conference 2026, Sean Martin sits down with Sunil Gottumukkala, CEO and Co-Founder of Averlon, to talk about why vulnerability management as a discipline has hit a wall — and what it looks like to go beyond prioritization into actual remediation. Drawing on his experience as a security executive at Salesforce, Sunil makes the case that in a world where AI is accelerating both development and attack surface, the only way forward is systems that can autonomously understand, prioritize, and fix security issues at scale.

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