The TechSpective Podcast is a conversation-driven show built around one consistent goal: getting people with real standing in the technology and cybersecurity world to say the things they’d actually say off the record. Founders, CISOs, chief strategists, researchers, and executives who are building, defending, or thinking seriously about where the industry is heading — interviewed by someone with the background to ask the questions that matter.
Host Tony Bradley is a CISSP-credentialed journalist and analyst with decades of enterprise technology and security experience. He’s not asking guests to explain basic concepts. He’s asking whether things are actually working, where the honest version of the story diverges from the official one, and what practitioners should actually be paying attention to. Recent episodes have covered ransomware’s resurgence, agentic AI hype versus reality, identity security, zero trust in practice, shadow AI risk, and the future of digital trust and online influence.
Each episode comes with a written companion post on TechSpective for readers who prefer text. The archive spans 20 pages and continues to grow. For anyone following the technology and cybersecurity conversation at a serious level, this is a podcast hosted by someone who knows the difference between a talking point and an insight.
Before COVID forced everyone out of the office, hiring for most companies was a pretty localized exercise. You posted the job, you interviewed whoever could physically show up, and you picked someone. If you were based in a mid-sized city, […]
Remote Hiring Opened the Talent Pool — and the Fraud Surface Read More »
Most organizations believe they have a solid handle on their AI risk. According to a new report, that confidence may be misplaced. ArmorCode partnered with the Purplebook community to survey more than 650 cybersecurity leaders to produce the State of
The AI Risk Blind Spot Most Organizations Don’t Know They Have Read More »
Every few years, something comes along that reshapes the threat landscape and sends the industry scrambling for new tools, new frameworks, and new buzzwords. The perimeter died. Then it came back. Endpoints became the priority. Now they’re not the whole
The Attack Surface Changed but the Fundamentals Didn’t Read More »
There’s a pattern that shows up in incident response work that nobody talks about in the vendor briefings. You bring in forensics after something goes wrong, and somewhere in that process, you find a tool — already deployed, already licensed,
What the Breach Reveals That the Budget Never Did Read More »
I keep having versions of the same conversation. The names and logos change, but the underlying tension doesn’t: organizations are deploying AI agents fast, they’re deploying them into production, and a lot of them weren’t ready when they did it.
The Agentic AI Reckoning Nobody Saw Coming Read More »
There’s a moment in my conversation with Bob Bobel where he mentions that customers are having a harder time finding people who actually know Active Directory. Not cloud identity — the old on-premise stuff that most large organizations still run.
The Microsoft Enterprise Recovery Problem AI Can’t Fix Read More »
Every conversation I’ve had for the past couple of years has followed the same arc. First, it was generative AI. Then agentic AI. Now the question everyone is circling is how you actually secure agentic AI — and it turns
When AI Agents Go Rogue the Problem Starts at Runtime Read More »
Fresh off RSAC 2026, I sat down with Ramin Farassat, Chief Product Officer at Menlo Security, to work through what agentic AI is actually doing to the enterprise attack surface. Menlo has spent 13 years focused specifically on browser security.
The Browser Was Already a Problem – Now Add a Billion AI Agents Read More »
Ransomware has been a persistent headline topic for years now. As a result, a lot of people have probably gotten numb to it. I know I had. It starts to feel like background noise — another attack, another breach, another
Why Ransomware Should Be Getting Your Attention Again Read More »
Everyone is talking about agentic AI. And that’s part of the problem. Over the last couple of years, the term has gone the way of every other buzzword in tech — slapped onto products and platforms regardless of whether it
The Agentic AI Hype Is Real — But So Is the Confusion Read More »
