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Cybersecurity News & Analysis by Cyber Sidekicks - Your Weekly Update’

Christina Richmond | Rory Duncan - Cybersecurity Experts | Richmond Advisory Group

Christina Richmond and Rory Duncan of Cyber Sidekicks discuss the latest insights into the cybersecurity market’s most significant news, trends, and technologies. Follow us at richmondadvisorygroup.com, linkedin.com/in/roryduncan and linkedin.com/in/christinarichmond

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34:21

AI & Incident Readiness: Deepfakes & Tabletop...

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2025/11/18

This week, Mike Perez, a Director at managed IT and security services provider Ekco chats to us about Digital Loss Prevention (DLP), incident readiness, how they use deepfakes for customer tabletop cybersecurity training exercises and more!NEWS Bank of England says JLR's cyberattack contributed to UK's unexpectedly slower GDP growth Vulnerability management vendor Intruder publishes its 2025 Exposure Management Index Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would

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38:32

AI Agents, Bots & Identity: A State of the Market...

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2025/11/11

Oh boy, we had a wide-ranging and detailed discussion this week with Andy Ash (aka "Andy Two"), CISO at Netacea about the role of AI agents and bots in identity management and threat intelligence. How much risk do we trade off against convenience, and how does this affect our security?NEWS CISO Burnout – Epidemic, Endemic, or Simply Inevitable? CrowdStrike releases its 2025 European Threat Landscape Report Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would prefer not to

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45:01

Security: a multi-layered, programmatic approach -...

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2025/11/04

This week, Christina has a great chat with Charles Henderson, EVP & Head of DivisionHex at Coalfire. The discussion covers offensive and defensive security, and managed security services as well as the ins-and-outs of cyber insurance and risk dynamics....NEWS MITRE Unveils ATT&CK v18 With Updates to Detections, Mobile, ICS Cybersecurity Firms See Surge in AI-Powered Attacks Across Africa Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would prefer not to write an

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31:39

"... it was DNS": AWS outage chat with Sean Deuby,...

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2025/10/28

Lots to talk about this week as we dissect the AWS outage, what the implications are for resiliency, and AWS' own advice about how to mitigate dependencies on partitional services - with Sean Deuby, Principal Technologist at Semperis.NEWS Amazon fixes huge AWS outage that broke much of the internet – here's what happened Concerns over UK (and European) reliance on AWS and US services White Paper: AWS Fault Isolation Boundaries - Global Services Dutch government takes control of China-owned chip

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41:07

LevelBlue to acquire Cybereason as autumn M&A...

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2025/10/21

Big M&A news of the week as we discuss the announcement that LevelBlue will be acquiring Cybereason! We also have a great discussion about security, website blocking and threat protection services with this week's guest TK Keanini, CTO at DNSFilter. Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would prefer not to write an email? You can leave us a voicemail (90 seconds max). We will share any that are not too spicy in the following episode. SpeakPipe link -

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35:04

Post-Quantum Cryptography Management: with IBM's...

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2025/10/14

Our guest this week is Chaitanya Challa, Product Leader, IBM Data Security & Quantum Safe.Having just released the IBM Guardium Cryptography Manager, Chaitanya gives us some great insights into what it's like to create and develop a new software product - involving 100 people over 6 months - including the many time zones involved and the lack of sleep that entailed! NEWS Google DeepMind’s New AI Agent Finds and Fixes Vulnerabilities Despite More CVEs, Cyber Insurers Aren't Altering

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37:34

Finding the Evidence: Digital Forensics, AI &...

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2025/10/07

Lots to discuss this week!We find out about what's happening in the world of AI, Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) with Danny Howett, Technical Director at CyXCel. NEWS M&A: CyberBit Acquires RangeForce to Create Combined Cyber Range Platform Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Prioritizing Identity to Safeguard Critical Infrastructure New AI term of the week – Workslop: In an article for the Harvard Business Review, a team of researchers coined the new term for “AI-generated

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35:47

AI & Policy Management: the customer perspective with...

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2025/09/30

In this episode we have an in-depth chat with Kyle Wickert, Field CTO at AlgoSec about Cloud 2.0 / Network 2.0 and what his customers are saying to him about the use of AI/AI Agents, policy management, application recertification and much more!No News this week but Christina talks to us about her impressions of Lumen Technologies, following her attendance at last week's Analyst Summit. Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would prefer not to write an email? You can

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42:53

API vulnerabilities & AI: Cequence Security's...

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2025/09/23

This week's episode sees us in discussion with the globetrotting CISO of Cequence Security, Randolph Barr about everything to do with AI, preventing API vulnerabilities, security hygiene and the dream of a fully agentic AI vulnerability management lifecycle... Cybersecurity Society of the Philippines IN THE NEWS Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows SentinelOne to Acquire Observo AI in $225 Million Deal Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and

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37:28

Agentic AI: Why your SecOps is at risk and what to do...

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2025/09/16

Rock Lambros, CEO & Founder of Rock Cyber joins us again this week to delve deeper into the emerging opportunities, risks and challenges of using agentic AI in your SecOps - and what you can do to minimize potential exposure and risk.OWASP GenAI / Agentic AI resources In the news: Personal Liability, Security Become Bigger Issues for CISOs Varonis Acquires Email Security Provider SlashNext to Enhance BEC Defenses Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would

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33:38

AI Compliance & Governance: why it matters - with...

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2025/09/09

This week we chat with Chris Newton-Smith, CEO of ISMS Online about AI compliance, governance and the regulatory requirements relating to ISO 42001, the EU AI Act and more!In the news: US, Allies Push for SBOMs to Bolster Cybersecurity US Offers $10 Million for Three Russian Energy Firm Hackers Rewards for Justice (RFJ) Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would prefer not to write an email? You can leave us a voicemail (90 seconds max). We will share any that are

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37:13

OWASP Agentic AI SecOps deep dive: Solutions &...

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2025/09/02

This week we delve into OWASP's recently-released OWASP Agentic AI SecOps Framework and Market Landscape report: https://genai.owasp.org/resource/ai-security-solutions-landscape-for-agentic-ai-q3-2025/ This week's guest is Paul Farrington, Chief Product Officer at Glasswall. Paul, Christina & I talk about the evolution of Zero Trust and where the industry is headed.... Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would prefer not to write an email? You can leave us a

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42:21

Why Business Fundamentals Matter: a Cybersecurity 101...

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2025/08/26

This week's guest is Simon Hodgkinson, Strategic Advisor to security firm Semperis. We chat about the importance of business fundamentals, the data and infrastructure hygiene required for effective cybersecurity, and what keeps him up at night!Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would prefer not to write an email? You can leave us a voicemail (90 seconds max). We will share any that are not too spicy in the following episode. SpeakPipe link -

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42:51

AI, Agents & Cybersecurity: Managing the Challenges &...

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2025/08/19

In this week's special 30th Episode (woot!) we have a great discussion with IBM's Global Managing Partner of Cybersecurity Services, Mark Hughes around the adoption of AI, AI Agents and how to prepare for and manage the cybersecurity challenges and risks to the enterprise.Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would prefer not to write an email? You can leave us a voicemail (90 seconds max). We will share any that are not too spicy in the following episode. SpeakPipe

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38:24

SentinelOne acquires Prompt Security; Cyber warfare...

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2025/08/12

This week: more M&A news as SentinelOne announces its plan to acquire Prompt Security. Also, special guest Nate Case of Clarity talks about cyber warfare tabletop exercises, scenario gaming and AI!Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would prefer not to write an email? You can leave us a voicemail (90 seconds max). We will share any that are not too spicy in the following episode. SpeakPipe link - https://www.speakpipe.com/Cyber_Sidekicks Or, send us an

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33:25

Summer of Cyber M&A: Palo Alto Networks drops a hot...

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2025/08/05

In this week's episode we cover the latest hot cybersecurity M&A deal of the year, as Palo Alto Network announces it intent to acquire identity specialist CyberArk! We also chat with Rock Lambros, Founder & CEO of Rock Cyber Check out Rock's collaboration on OWASP's latest GenAI / LLM reports & guides Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would prefer not to write an email? You can leave us a voicemail (90 seconds max). We will share any that are not too

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45:47

AI in cybersecurity: too many alerts? Erik Bloch of...

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2025/07/29

This week, Erik Bloch, VP of Security at Illumio outlines why he believes that 90%+ of AI-generated alerts are trivial or benign, and what affect this is starting to have on security analysts. Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would prefer not to write an email? You can leave us a voicemail (90 seconds max). We will share any that are not too spicy in the following episode. SpeakPipe link - https://www.speakpipe.com/Cyber_Sidekicks Or, send us an email:

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38:32

Agentic AI & Security - with Zenity's Kayla Underkoffler

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2025/07/22

This week it's all about AI Agents as we chat with Kayla Underkoffler, Lead Security Engineer in the Office of the CTO at Zenity -LI profile: linkedin.com/in/kayla-underkoffler-7400673a Website: https://zenity.io/ Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would prefer not to write an email? You can leave us a voicemail (90 seconds max). We will share any that are not too spicy in the following episode. SpeakPipe link - https://www.speakpipe.com/Cyber_Sidekicks Or, send

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39:35

Post Quantum Cryptography, AI & Sovereignty: Insights...

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2025/07/15

This week we have an in-depth discussion about post quantum cryptography (PQC), AI & digital sovereignty with Utimaco's CTO, Nils GerhardtLeave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would prefer not to write an email? You can leave us a voicemail (90 seconds max). We will share any that are not too spicy in the following episode. SpeakPipe link - https://www.speakpipe.com/Cyber_Sidekicks Or, send us an email: Christina Richmond – christina@richmondadvisorygroup.com

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48:33

LevelBlue to acquire Trustwave / API Security...

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2025/07/08

In this episode we deep-dive into LevelBlue's announced plan to acquire Trustwave. We also have a great discussion with Wallarm's Tim Erlin about what's coming next in API Security.Leave us a message! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would prefer not to write an email? You can leave us a voicemail (90 seconds max). We will share any that are not too spicy in the following episode. SpeakPipe link - https://www.speakpipe.com/Cyber_Sidekicks Or, send us an email: Christina Richmond

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