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Cybersecurity Awesomeness Podcast - Episode 166

As organizations integrate AI agents into development, security operations, and routine tasks, many are suffering from severe "sticker shock" as unmanaged consumption of AI tokens leads to ballooning, unpredictable costs.

Is Your SOC Below the AI Poverty Line?

In the recent episode of The Security Strategist podcast, host Brad LaPorte, Gartner Veteran and Advisor at Lionfish Tech Advisors, sat down with Greg Notch, CSO at Expel, to address the impact of AI on security operations. They discuss the AI poverty line and lay out a plan for how enterprises can adapt to the rapid pace of change introduced by AI.

"The AI poverty line will be even crazier in some ways because you will either have the ability to understand and wield AI properly or you will not."

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Shadow AI to Shadow Agents: What's Actually Changed in 2026?

"Even into 2024, Shadow AI was not the main priority for enterprises, it gained traction heading into 2025 and dramatically increased in 2026."

How Should CISOs Prioritise Risk in the Age of AI-Powered Cyberattacks?

Host Richard Stiennon sits down with Brad Hibbert, COO & CSO, Brinqa, to talk about what changes when AI cyberattacks occur and what to do about it.

Context, Cost, & AI: Strategies to Optimise Agent Performance & ROI

In the recent episode of the Don’t Panic It’s Just Data podcast, host Kevin Petrie, VP of Research at BARC, sat down with Eudald Camprubi, Co-Founder of Nuclia (acquired by Progress) and Software Fellow at Progress and Michael Marolda, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Agentic RAG.

Progress Software experts explain why context engineering, Agentic RAG and smarter retrieval strategies are helping enterprises reduce AI costs while improving answer quality.

How Multi-Die Designs and AI Are Reshaping the Industry

Shekhar Kapoor, Executive Director of Product Line Management at Synopsys, speaks with Dana Gardner about multi-die semiconductor design, AI-driven EDA and multiphysics validation.

Shekhar Kapoor, Executive Director of Product Line Management at Synopsys, joins Dana Gardner to explore how AI and multi-die technology are redefining semiconductor design.

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Bridging the Digital Divide in the Age of AI

Graeme Gordon, Chief Executive Officer of Converged Solutions Group, speaking with Trisha Pillay on Tech Transformed about AI adoption, digital inclusion and the future of the digital divide.

Trisha Pillay sits down with Graeme Gordon to explore why AI literacy, sovereign AI, and responsible leadership will shape the next wave of digital transformation.

How AI Is Transforming the Talent Lifecycle

Artificial intelligence is transforming far more than software development. In this episode of Tech Transformed, Dana Gardner speaks with Meghna Punhani, Chief People Officer at Eightfold AI, about how AI is reshaping the entire talent lifecycle.

Autonomous Pen Testing & the Next Era of Security Testing

Sandeep Kamble, Founder & CTO at SecureLayer7 talks to host Richard Stiennon about how traditional penetration testing & autonomous security testing are changing offensive security.

Can Your Observability Stack Handle 24/7 Agentic Query Volume?

In the recent episode of the Tech Transformed podcast, Kevin Petrie, BARC Vice President of Research, sat down with , Eric Tschetter, Chief Architect at Imply to talk about how AI is actually increasing the current needs around scale, performance, and data access.

Eric Tschetter, Chief Architect at Imply, joins Kevin Petrie to explore why AI agents—with their continuous, 24/7 query patterns—are breaking traditional observability tools.

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AI Hype vs Reality: What Security Leaders Are Getting Wrong

Trisha Pillay interviews Cybaverse CEO Oliver Spence about AI hype, cybersecurity risks, vulnerability management, and enterprise security strategy.

Trisha Pillay speaks with Oliver Spence to explore why AI hype is distracting security leaders from what really matters.

Why Most Enterprise AI Investments Fail to Deliver ROI

Podcast studio scene showing host Trish Pillay speaking with guest Darin Patterson, VP Product Advocacy and Market Strategy at Make, during a discussion on enterprise AI ROI challenges.

Trisha Pillay speaks with Darin Patterson about why enterprise AI ROI continues to fall short, as organisations struggle with AI adoption failures, stalled pilots, and poor scaling strategies.

How the Mythos Era Is Reshaping the Future of the SOC

In this episode of the Security Strategist podcast, Richard Stiennon sits down with Edward Wu, CEO of Dropzone AI, to explore how the Mythos era is reshaping security operations centres.

Ep. 29: AI Automation Anxiety: Take a Breath, Back to Fundamentals

Hosts address anxiety around enterprise automation leaders integrating rapidly evolving AI solutions while maintaining reliability and resilience

Ep. 28: From AI Hype to Operational Reality: Insights from Gartner IO&CS25

In this episode, Dan Twing and Tom O’Rourke discuss Tom’s learnings from December’s Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference.

Episode 161 - Mainframe Computing

In this episode of the Cybersecurity Awesomeness Podcast, hosts Chris Steffen and Ken Buckler explore the often-misunderstood world of mainframe computing.

Despite the pervasive narrative that mainframes are "antiquated" technology, the hosts argue that they remain the gold standard for availability, integrity, and resilience in high-stakes environments like banking, healthcare, and government.

Episode 160 - Microsoft Build Conference 2026

In this episode of the Cybersecurity Awesomeness Podcast, hosts Chris Steffen and Ken Buckler discuss transformative announcements from the Microsoft Build Conference 2026.

Hosts discuss transformative announcements from the Microsoft Build Conference 2026.

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