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The ITSPmagazine Podcast

ITSPmagazine, Sean Martin, Marco Ciappelli

Founded in 2015, ITSPmagazine began as a vision for a publication positioned at the critical intersection of technology, cybersecurity, and society. What started as a written publication has evolved into a comprehensive repository for all their content—podcasts, articles, event coverage, interviews, videos, panels, and everything they create. This is where Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli talk about cybersecurity, technology, society, music, storytelling, branding, conference coverage, and whatever

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00:07:09

Buyers Are Asking What the AI Actually Does | A Recap...

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2026/08/17

Daniel Bardenstein, CEO and Co-Founder of Manifest Cyber, uses RSAC Conference as a fixed point and compares it to what he is hearing in Las Vegas. The marketing has held its shape. At RSAC Conference, companies with little claim to the label were describing themselves as agentic. Here, he cites a survey referenced in a talk that morning counting 47 AI SOC companies among the vendors on site. What has moved is scrutiny. Practitioners and security leaders are pressing on what differentiates one AI

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00:07:09

Vulnerability, Visibility, and Velocity Shape the...

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2026/08/17

Sean Murphy, Field CISO for North America at F5, spent the week behind the scenes at Black Hat USA 2026, in the corridors and at dinner with the CISOs and cybersecurity minded people who fill the halls. Marco Ciappelli caught him at the close of it and asked what the industry learned this year. The answer arrived as three words. Vulnerabilities, and the flattening of the curve between vulnerability, exposure, and exploit. Visibility, because a team cannot defend what it does not know it has

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00:06:24

SOC Teams Are Building Their Own Agents, and the Data...

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2026/08/17

Brian Dye, Chief Executive Officer at Corelight, spends Black Hat USA 2026 asking every organization he talks to the same question. What are you doing with AI in the SOC? A year ago, he says, teams thought it was a good idea but were wary of it, and people knew LLMs could produce things without being sure what to do with them. Now he is talking with organizations building their own agents for incident response and for threat hunting, and running their own quality control on the output rather than

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00:16:02

Coding Is a Fraction of the Work. Harness Secures...

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2026/08/15

Rahul Sood has run the application security business at Harness for almost a year. He describes application security as one of the core pillars of the company, part of a vision of building a DevSecOps platform. A year ago Harness publicly announced that security accounted for a quarter of its revenue. Sood says the figure is now considerably higher.The company did not start there. Founder Jyoti Bansal thought about Harness for a decade before founding it, Sood says, after seeing the problem inside

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00:13:45

Compliance Moves at the Speed of DevOps When...

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2026/08/14

Why does compliance paperwork fall behind the systems it describes? Because the systems change faster than the documents. Travis Howerton points to cloud native technologies that spin up and down on demand, which makes describing infrastructure in paperwork something that goes out of date instantly. Add new regulation for third party risk, supply chain, zero trust, and privacy, and an approach that was already expensive and frustrating stops being fit for purpose. RegScale answers that with

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00:16:03

Post-Quantum Readiness Starts With the Infrastructure...

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2026/08/14

Post-quantum cryptography was in conversation after conversation at Black Hat USA 2026, yet Larry Lunetta of HPE walked part of the show floor and counted a single reference to quantum. Where the topic shows up, and where it does not, says something about who is expected to solve it. Why does a problem described in 1994 matter now? Larry Lunetta points to Peter Shor, who asked what would happen to RSA if a different kind of computing technology existed. What changed since then is the trajectory

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00:15:48

Agents Get Zero Trust, and the Network Becomes the...

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2026/08/14

Most people know HPE for servers, compute, and storage. David Hughes leads a pillar that gets less attention. He runs the SSE and security business inside HPE Networking, which he says accounts for about a third of the company now that HPE has merged with Juniper, and which organizes into four pillars: campus and branch, data center switching, routing infrastructure, and security. Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026, the conversation opens on a balancing act Hughes hears constantly. Customers

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00:15:28

AI Agents Act at Machine Speed. Menlo Security...

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2026/08/14

Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026, Eric Avigdor of Menlo Security describes an adoption pattern he hears in customer conversation after customer conversation. AI makes teams measurably more productive. The guardrails that keep company data inside the business arrive later, if they arrive at all. Eric Avigdor leads product for AI security and data security at Menlo Security, and he splits the problem into two categories that get very different levels of attention. One is how people use AI in

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00:16:12

Adversary Behavior Outlasts the Ransomware Brand | A...

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2026/08/14

Proactive and actionable get used a lot in security, and Michael DeBolt, President and Chief Intelligence Officer at Intel 471, is direct about it. Inside Intel 471, proactive means moving past indicators of compromise, which he describes as temporary, and focusing on adversary behavior instead. Indicators still get blocked. Intent, capability, and motivation are what tell a defender whether they are actually a target. So what is pre-attack intelligence? It is information gathered from inside

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00:14:44

10,000 Alerts a Day, 75% Cleared With Evidence...

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2026/08/14

Recorded on site at Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas, Seth Summersett joins Sean Martin to talk through the volume problem that shapes a modern security operations team. Seth Summersett spent about a decade at the NSA and roughly a decade at Mandiant, finishing there as head of innovation and custom engineering, then a couple of years at Meta supporting business unit level CISOs. He co-founded Embed Security with Jeffrey Johns, who ran the data science team alongside him at Mandiant. The catalyst

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00:24:16

Network Evidence, AI Triage, and Leaving People...

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2026/08/14

James Pope is on site in Las Vegas more than a week before the doors open. As SOC lead for the Black Hat NOC and Senior Director of Security Product Research and Technical Marketing Engineering at Corelight, his show starts with switches and access points rather than alerts. The team brings in the ISP, the firewall, the switches, and the access points, deploys them across the conference, and then moves into SOC mode. If there is no network, there is nothing to secure. The tooling arrives through

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00:13:26

The Last Mile of Security Operations Runs on a Local...

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2026/08/13

Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas at the end of day two, Karthik Kannan, Founder and CEO at Anvilogic, walks through a seven year build that reached its original shape this year. The plan from the start was a full security operations platform covering data, the detection engineering process, triage and investigation, and case management. In the shorthand of the category, SIEM and SOAR combined. It arrived in phases. Detection engineering came first, implemented on top of Splunk

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00:17:49

Agents in Production Need a Named Accountable Owner |...

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2026/08/13

Sean Murphy spent most of the past decade running F5 technology as a customer inside highly regulated environments. He is now about four weeks into the role of Field CISO for North America, and he describes the first month as drinking from a fire hose. Depending on how the math is done, he places F5 among the seven largest cybersecurity companies once BIG-IP is counted as security tooling, with the reasoning running through the CIA triad. Availability is the leg that tends to fall out of the

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00:11:22

Autonomous Remediation Is Already Running at...

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2026/08/12

Sumedh Thakar joined Qualys as an early software engineer on the scanner, back when a 90-day scan cycle came with another 90 days to fix whatever it found. Twenty-three years later he leads the company, and the number he uses now is 90 seconds. At Black Hat USA 2026 he walks through what that compression asks of security teams. So what has actually changed? The questions have not. Where are my assets, what is my assessment of them, what do I prioritize, and what do I fix. Thakar points at the clock

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00:13:11

Stellar Cyber Puts Numbers Behind Agentic Auto Triage...

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2026/08/12

Lisa Liu, Corporate Marketing and Communications Manager at Stellar Cyber, says the AI noise has been running since RSAC Conference, and that what separates vendors now is whether they can back their claims with data their customers gave them. She came to Black Hat USA 2026 with figures on Agentic Auto Triage. The numbers she cites: up to 19 minutes saved per hour per analyst, up to 1.5 full-time analysts per year, and 99.7 percent agreement with the human analyst. Liu treats the accuracy figure as

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00:15:03

Protecting the Executive Means Protecting Everyone...

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2026/08/12

On the show floor at Black Hat USA 2026, Marco Ciappelli connected with Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder and CEO at BlackCloak, about a change in where the company draws the line around who gets protected. BlackCloak launched Impersonation Protection several months ago for the C-suite and their families. Clients came back asking for more reach. Why does deepfake risk extend past the executive? Because the people surrounding an executive hold the access attackers want. Pierson lists the trusts and estates

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00:35:16

Thirty Gigs a Month Is the Practice | A Music Evolves...

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2026/08/11

Show Notes There is a version of the music career that gets written about, and there is the version that gets played. Frankie Raye lives in the second one. She performs six or seven nights a week across the greater Tampa Bay area, mixes covers with originals depending on what the room wants, and treats the gig itself as the practice session. She points at old video of herself and measures the distance she has traveled, not against a chart position, but against her own playing. That volume changes

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00:17:12

The Budget Is Already Spent. The ROI Is in the...

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2026/08/11

Automation and AI have flooded the sales and marketing side of the market, and Michael Parisi, Chief Growth Officer at Steel Patriot Partners, says the security leaders on the receiving end were already past capacity. The pitch tends to lead with the product rather than the problem. So many CISOs have stopped taking direct sales calls and started asking a different question: what VAR do you work with, and who can I buy you through? That routing puts weight back on partners who know where a program

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00:16:47

Sovereign AI That Runs Where Your Data Lives | A Full...

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2026/08/11

Crogl arrived at Black Hat USA 2026 with two announcements behind it. The week before the show, the company made a free download of its AI SOC agent generally available. On the morning of this conversation, it went public with a major global partner tied to the U.S. Department of Defense. Monzy Merza, Co-Founder and CEO of Crogl, ties both back to a position the company took three years ago, which is that customers should control their own data and a security product should be secure. What does

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00:13:05

AI Has Its Own Supply Chain | A Full Sponsor Brand...

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2026/08/11

At Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas, Daniel Bardenstein, CEO and co-founder of Manifest Cyber, starts with a gap his team measured in a survey of security leaders and practitioners. Leadership described one version of what is happening with AI inside the enterprise. The people doing the hands-on work described another. Adoption keeps moving, and security teams are working to catch up. So what is the real risk in AI security? Bardenstein puts less weight on non-determinism than most and more on

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