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. 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.
Most AI-driven security tools lean on retrieval-augmented generation: pull relevant precedent, drop it into the context window, let the model reason over it. It works, but it has a cost problem and a consistency problem. The more data you feed […]
Building an AI That Learns Like an Analyst Read More »
Bruce Schneier joins me on this episode of the TechSpective Podcast to talk about hacking, power, and why so much of what gets blamed on AI might actually be something else. Schneier is one of the most well-known and respected
Most AI Problems Are Really Capitalism Problems Read More »
Beth Simone Noveck joins me on this episode of the TechSpective Podcast to talk about her book, Reboot, AI and the Race to Save Democracy. She’s a professor at Northeastern, where she leads the Burns Center for Social Change. She
The Case For Rebooting Democracy With AI Read More »
Most cloud security tools have a detection problem. They find misconfigurations well enough. The issue is what happens after — a ticket gets opened, someone works the queue, the fix goes in, and three weeks later the same misconfiguration is
The Remediation Cycle No Security Team Wants to Be Running Read More »
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 »
