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Redefining CyberSecurity

Sean Martin, ITSPmagazine

Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast Hosted by Sean Martin, CISSP Have you ever thought that we are selling cybersecurity insincerely, buying it indiscriminately, and deploying it ineffectively? For cybersecurity to be genuinely effective, we must make it consumable and usable. We must also bring transparency and honesty to the conversations surrounding the methods, services, and technologies upon which businesses rely. If we are going to protect what matters and bring value to our companies, our

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00:15:18

You Shot the Arrow. The Bow Went With It. | Lens Four...

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2026/04/08

The marketing problem in cybersecurity isn't a character problem. It's a system problem. In this edition of Lens Four, Sean Martin examines how the credibility debt accumulates, what it costs the security leaders trying to make good decisions, and what vendors, buyers, and the market need to do differently.🔍 In this episode: A Forrester analyst — on location at a major industry conference — looked around at six hundred booths and wondered whether every vendor had used the same AI model to produce

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00:20:12

Order of Operations: The Foundation Risk Healthcare...

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2026/03/22

Healthcare's AI ambition and its data infrastructure are moving at different speeds. In this edition of Lens Four, Sean Martin examines what happens when those speeds collide — and who is accountable when the sequence is wrong.🔍 In this episode: 82% of health systems have limited or no AI governance in place, while deployments proceed — Digital Medicine Society 58% of frontline clinical staff are using unsanctioned AI tools — not out of recklessness, but because approved alternatives don't

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00:25:11

When AI Touches Everything: Operationalizing the Five...

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2026/03/20

Show NotesFor ten years, Ed Skoudis has curated one of the most anticipated sessions at RSA Conference: SANS' "Five Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques: Crucial Tips for Defenders." The session has always been a hit -- standing room only on the main stage -- but this year, Ed says something has changed. Not one or two topics with an AI component. All five. Ed is deliberate about how the session comes together. He starts with people, not topics. He builds the panel around SANS instructors who bring

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00:25:04

When Cyber Meets Physical: Building Executive and...

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2026/03/18

⬥EPISODE NOTES⬥The conversation that led to this episode started with a LinkedIn post -- and it quickly surfaced a challenge that security leaders across industries are wrestling with but rarely talk about openly: who is actually responsible for protecting the people inside an organization, not just the systems they use? Roland Cloutier has sat in some of the most demanding security leadership seats in the world -- Global CSO at TikTok/ByteDance, a decade as Global CSO at ADP, and VP and CSO at EMC

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00:06:30

Adapting to the Speed of Risk: Why GRC Programs Must...

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2026/03/12

Archer is redefining what it means to manage governance, risk, and compliance in an environment defined by constant change. Steve Schlarman, Senior Director at Archer, has spent nearly two decades helping organizations understand why their traditional GRC approaches are falling short and what it takes to close the gap.The forces challenging organizations today are well known: velocity of change, volume of change, and the uncertainty that compounds both. What makes the problem acute is timing

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00:28:56

Task by Task: The Workflows We're Handing to AI — One...

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2026/03/10

Nobody decided to build a human-optional workflow — they just kept making reasonable procurement decisions, task by task, until the human became optional across hiring, contracting, finance, and security operations. Sean Martin traces what organizations have actually assembled, where accountability lives when it goes wrong, and why the regulatory window for getting ahead of it is closing faster than most leaders realize.In this edition of Lens Four, Sean Martin looks at the agentic AI landscape

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00:14:22

The 72-Minute Gap: What the Breaches, the Vendors,...

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2026/03/05

Attackers are moving in 72 minutes. One CISO has already eliminated the entire SOC team. And the industry is spending a quarter of a trillion dollars while struggling to define what "resilience" even means.In this edition of Lens Four, Sean Martin looks at the cybersecurity landscape through three lenses — programs, innovation, and messaging — to connect the signals that matter. 🔍 In this episode: Why identity-driven attacks now account for 65% of initial access and what that means for security

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00:26:10

SOC Automation and the AI-Driven Future of...

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2026/03/04

⬥EPISODE NOTES⬥ The security operations center has always been a battleground of volume, velocity, and human endurance. Analysts have long faced the impossible math of too many alerts, too few hours, and too much at stake. For years, the industry promised automation would change that equation -- but the technology was never quite ready to deliver. That moment, according to Richard Stiennon, has now arrived. Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest, has spent two decades tracking every corner

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00:31:47

Speaking Security with a Business Accent: Why Being...

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2026/03/03

⬥EPISODE NOTES⬥ What happens when a cybersecurity professional knows exactly what's wrong but can't get anyone to act on it? It's a problem that affects security teams across every industry, and it's the central question driving Josh Mason's new book, Speaks Security with a Business Accent. In this conversation, Josh Mason joins Sean Martin to unpack why technical accuracy alone doesn't move the needle and what it takes to communicate security in terms the business actually understands. Josh Mason

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00:07:35

The Autonomous SOC Is No Longer a Dream | A Brand...

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2026/02/22

What does it take to turn the dream of an autonomous SOC into something organizations can actually deploy? Subo Guha, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Stellar Cyber, joins Sean Martin to share how the company's AI-driven security operations platform is making that vision a reality. Stellar Cyber serves SOC teams across more than 50 countries, with a primary focus on MSPs and MSSPs supporting the underserved mid-market, though marquee enterprise customers like Canon are also part of the

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00:06:56

The New Identity Risk AI Agents Bring to the...

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2026/02/19

What happens when AI agents inherit access to enterprise systems but nobody governs their identities? Ido Shlomo, Co-Founder and CTO of Token Security, joins the conversation to unpack a rapidly growing challenge that many organizations face but few have addressed. As businesses accelerate AI adoption, agents are being deployed to fetch data from CRMs, process emails, and execute actions across platforms. The problem is that these agents often operate with persistent access, no clear ownership, and

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00:08:23

KEVology: How Exploit Scores and Timelines Shape Real...

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2026/02/13

The CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog is one of the most referenced resources in vulnerability management, but how well do security teams actually understand what it tells them? In this Brand Highlight, Tod Beardsley, Vice President of Security Research at runZero and former CISA section chief who helped manage the KEV on a daily basis, breaks down what the catalog is designed to do and, just as importantly, what it is not.What is the KEV catalog and who is it really for? The KEV is

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00:07:14

Semantic Chaining: A New Image-Based Jailbreak...

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2026/02/13

What happens when AI safety filters fail to catch harmful content hidden inside images? Alessandro Pignati, AI Security Researcher at NeuralTrust, joins Sean Martin to reveal a newly discovered vulnerability that affects some of the most widely used image-generation models on the market today. The technique, called semantic chaining, is an image-based jailbreak attack discovered by the NeuralTrust research team, and it raises important questions about how enterprises secure their multimodal AI

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00:17:56

Building Community Around the AI SOC Revolution | A...

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2026/02/12

What happens when the security community stops debating whether AI belongs in the SOC and starts figuring out how to make it work? Monzy Merza, Co-Founder and CEO of Crogl, is helping answer that question, both through the autonomous AI SOC agent his company builds and through the inaugural AI SOC Summit, a community event designed to bring practitioners together for honest, no-nonsense conversation about what is real and what is hype in AI-driven security operations.Crogl builds what Merza

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00:46:49

It's Not a Technology Problem, It's an Organizational...

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2026/02/10

Show NotesMost organizations treat cybersecurity as a technology problem. They invest in layers of defense, run phishing tests, and deploy identity and access management tools. Yet headlines about breaches keep coming. Dr. Keri Pearlson, Senior Lecturer and Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, argues that the real opportunity lies not in more technology but in changing how people across the organization think about and value cybersecurity.In this episode of the

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00:15:42

It Fractured, Then Rebuilt Itself: The CISO Role...

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2026/01/03

Across dozens of conversations centered on the CISO experience, one reality keeps surfacing: the role no longer exists to protect systems in isolation. It exists to protect the business itself.Today’s CISO operates at the intersection of operational risk, executive decision-making, and organizational trust. The responsibility is not just to identify threats, but to help leadership understand which risks matter, when they matter, and why they deserve attention. This shift changes what success looks

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00:13:26

Five Patterns From 152 Episodes That Reshaped How I...

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2026/01/01

Across 152 conversations this year, a set of recurring patterns kept surfacing, regardless of whether the discussion focused on application security, software supply chain risk, AI systems, or creative work. The industries varied. The roles varied. The challenges did not.One theme rises above the rest: visibility remains the foundation of everything else, yet organizations continue to accept blind spots as normal. Asset inventories are incomplete. Build systems are poorly understood. Dependencies

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00:40:14

The Hidden Risk Inside Your Build Pipeline: When Open...

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2025/12/16

⬥EPISODE NOTES⬥Modern application development depends on open source packages moving at extraordinary speed. Paul McCarty, Offensive Security Specialist focused on software supply chain threats, explains why that speed has quietly reshaped risk across development pipelines, developer laptops, and CI environments.JavaScript dominates modern software delivery, and the npm registry has become the largest package ecosystem in the world. Millions of packages, thousands of daily updates, and deeply nested

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00:44:06

Rethinking Public Health Workflows Through Automation...

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2025/12/09

⬥EPISODE NOTES⬥Artificial intelligence is reshaping how public health organizations manage data, interpret trends, and support decision-making. In this episode, Sean Martin talks with Jim St. Clair, Vice President of Public Health Systems at a major public health research institute, Altarum, about what AI adoption really looks like across federal, state, and local agencies.Public health continues to face pressure from shifting budgets, aging infrastructure, and growing expectations around timely

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00:26:22

AI, Quantum, and the Changing Role of Cybersecurity |...

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2025/12/03

What Security Congress Reveals About the State of CybersecurityThis discussion focuses on what ISC2 Security Congress represents for practitioners, leaders, and organizations navigating constant technological change. Jon France, Chief Information Security Officer at ISC2, shares how the event brings together thousands of cybersecurity practitioners, certification holders, chapter leaders, and future professionals to exchange ideas on the issues shaping the field today. Themes That Stand OutAI

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