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AI Is Calling Your Security Bluff with Brian Vecci from Varonis

Brian Vecci, Field CTO at Varonis, joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast for a sponsored Industry Voices recorded at Black Hat USA 2026. He discusses how AI assistants and agents are magnifying existing data security risks, what recent research reveals about emerging AI-enabled threats, and why organizations need to rethink how they protect enterprise data as both employees and attackers gain access to more powerful AI tools.

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Aug 18, 2026

Zero Trust Wasn't Built for AI Agents with Ev Kontsevoy from Teleport

Ev Kontsevoy, CEO of Teleport, joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast for a sponsored Industry Voices recorded at Black Hat USA 2026. He discusses why traditional Zero Trust principles need to evolve for autonomous AI agents, how agents can operate within their permissions while still behaving in unintended ways, and why organizations need security controls that protect the business without creating friction that drives users toward workarounds.

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Aug 17, 2026

When AI Sprawl Becomes a Security Problem with Nick Warner from Neo

Nick Warner, CEO of Neo, joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast for a sponsored Industry Voices recorded at Black Hat USA 2026. He discusses how the rapid adoption of AI tools and agentic software is reshaping enterprise security, why CISOs need greater visibility and control over the software operating across their environments, and how organizations can put guardrails around AI without creating unnecessary friction.

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Aug 13, 2026

How Frontier Models Are Reshaping Cyber Defense with Clint Gibler from OpenAI and Robby Winchester from SpecterOps

Clint Gibler, Cyber Lead at OpenAI, and Robby Winchester, Chief Services Officer at SpecterOps, join Dave Bittner for a discussion recorded live at Black Hat USA 2026. Together, they explore how frontier AI models are changing cyber defense, where AI creates the greatest value for defenders, and why responsible deployment and human expertise remain essential as organizations adopt these technologies.

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Aug 12, 2026

The AI Supply Chain Has a Trust Problem with Michael Leland from Island

Michael Leland, Field CTO at Island joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast for a sponsored Industry Voices at Black Hat USA 2026. He discusses the emerging risks in the AI supply chain, why AI agents introduce new challenges around trust and governance, and what organizations can do to securely adopt agentic AI without slowing innovation.

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Aug 11, 2026

The Identities Your Security Stack Is Ignoring with Stephen Harrison from Abnormal AI

Stephen Harrison, VP of Product at Abnormal AI joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast for a sponsored Industry Voices interview at Black Hat USA 2026. He explains why AI agents and service accounts are creating a new identity challenge for security teams, how shadow AI is expanding the attack surface through unmanaged OAuth permissions, and why organizations need to understand what "normal" looks like for every identity in their environment.

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Aug 10, 2026

When AI Moves Faster Than Security with Mujtaba Hamid from Booz Allen Hamilton

Mujtaba Hamid, EVP of Product and Strategy at Booz Allen Hamilton joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast for a sponsored Industry Voices at Black Hat USA 2026. He explains how AI is compressing the timeline from vulnerability discovery to exploitation, why traditional human-paced security operations can no longer keep up, and how AI-native defensive systems can help organizations detect, adapt, and respond at machine speed.

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Aug 5, 2026

Cal Al-Dhubaib, Principal Technologist at Rubrik

Enterprise security has long been built to detect malicious actors, but AI agents are changing the rules. Cal Al-Dhubaib, Principal Technologist at Rubrik, joins Dave Bittner to explain why organizations need to shift from identifying suspicious intrusions to recognizing when trusted AI systems begin behaving outside their intended purpose. The conversation explores why behavioral monitoring, rather than traditional indicators of compromise, may become the foundation of AI security.

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Jul 22, 2026

Identity Is the New Tier Zero with Jimmy McNary from Semperis

Jimmy McNary, Deputy Federal CTO at Semperis, joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast to discuss why identity has become cybersecurity's new Tier Zero. Drawing on lessons from CISA's Cyber Storm 9 exercise, Jimmy explains why identity failures are now central to modern attack scenarios, how organizations should rethink traditional perimeter-focused defenses, and why continuous identity security assessments are becoming essential for protecting critical environments, including Microsoft GCC High.

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Jun 24, 2026

The Break Scenarios Hiding in Your Source Domain with Mike Masciulli from Semperis

Mike Masciulli, Managing Director of Migration Products and Services at Semperis, joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast for a sponsored Industry Voices. Mike discusses why Active Directory migrations are uniquely vulnerable to Microsoft's RC4 deprecation and upcoming July 2026 enforcement deadline. He explains how migration projects can encounter silent failures when accounts move across security boundaries, why traditional migration tools cannot transfer AES keys between domains, and what organizations should do now to identify hidden break scenarios before they surface during a critical cutover.

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Jun 22, 2026

AI-Powered Attacks Are Now a Commodity with Mike Britton, CIO of Abnormal AI

Mike Britton, CIO at Abnormal AI, joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast to discuss how AI-powered attacks have evolved from simple phishing assistance into fully productized cybercrime platforms. Drawing on recent research into platforms like VENOM and EvilTokens, as well as findings from Abnormal's 2026 Attack Landscape Report, Mike explains why sophisticated attacks are becoming accessible to virtually anyone with a subscription fee and what security leaders must do to adapt their threat models to this new reality.

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Jun 17, 2026

The Economics of Downtime with Christy Wyatt, CEO from Absolute Security

Christy Wyatt, CEO of Absolute Security, joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast for a sponsored Industry Voices. Christy discusses why cybersecurity has evolved from a threat and prevention conversation into a business resilience discipline centered on downtime, continuity, and operational impact. She explains the four questions boards increasingly expect security leaders to answer, and why resilience, including emerging agentic cyber resilience capabilities, is becoming the defining measure of security program effectiveness.

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