AI Security Brief

Is AI security actually a physical problem?

While AI might seem abstract, something that lives in "the cloud" is concrete. The AI applications we use every day run on GPUs in physical buildings, and Mark Houpt secures them. As Chief Information Security Officer at DataBank, he's watched those data centers go from anonymous warehouses to national security targets almost overnight. Mark joins hosts Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs to make the case that the AI era is, at its core, a physical security problem, and why the security fundamentals you already know still work, even when applied to threats that didn't exist two years ago.

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Who governs your AI agents?

Your team spent a decade maturing privileged access management. Then AI agents arrived and they don’t log in like humans. Now your biggest insider threat is an AI agent that lacks the access it needs, and then it goes to get it. In this episode Sundari Parekh, VP of AI Security and Cyber Risk Advisory for TrendAI™, addresses a hard truth: PAM was never fully solved, and non-human identity and agentic AI are amplifying the gap. Her fix: stop building a separate AI team, upend your identity thinking, and shift from gatekeeping AI adoption to safely enabling it.

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Is the next frontier model your biggest threat or your best defender?

If you think the recent wave of AI-discovered vulnerabilities is a problem, Rob Bair of Anthropic has a reframe for you. Discovery is the easy part. Closing the remediation gap is now the defining security challenge. Drawing on his experience in the Navy, in national security, and now frontier AI, Rob shares with host Johnny Hand what frontier models like Mythos actually mean for security leaders, and how defenders can keep pace when nation-state actors are already running autonomous attacks.

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Can agentic AI really find zero-days? Ask the hacker who won Pwn2Own Berlin 2026

At Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, a security researcher used agentic AI to help her win. The AI surfaced real, verified bugs, then wrongly called her winning bug “not unexploitable in practice.” Spoiler - it was.That uneven record is exactly what security leaders need to understand about the promise and limits of agentic AI. In this episode, host Dustin Childs sits down with Valentina Palmiotti – better known as Chompie – who took home $70,000 for zero-days in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Drawing from firsthand experience, Chompie shares agentic AI’s proven value for defenders and why human expertise remains essential.

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Is your enterprise AI strategy delivering ROI yet?

Your enterprise AI strategy isn’t as far along as you think. The reality for most organizations today is that AI is disrupting existing processes more than it’s delivering outcomes… so far. And according to Dr. Grace Trinidad, Research Director at IDC, that’s how it should be. In this episode, host Johnny Hand sits down with Dr. Grace to discuss how AI adoption follows the same pattern as almost every major digital transformation, and why this disruption phase we’re in is messy, yet critically important.

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