Mike Vizard talks with Ben Volkow, co-founder and CEO of QIZ Security, about why post-quantum cryptography is becoming an urgent priority for enterprise cybersecurity leaders. Volkow explains that quantum computers are expected to eventually break widely used encryption methods such as RSA and EC...

Engineers inherit the earth in every technology revolution, and the AI era is no exception. Ariel Assaraf, CEO and co-founder of Coralogix, joins Alan Shimel to argue the pendulum is swinging back after a year of layoffs. Furthermore, the bar to call yourself an engineer has never been higher.

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The BioShocking AI browser attack is one of the more unsettling pieces of AI security research this year. Eyal Arazi, head of product marketing at LayerX, joins Alan Shimel just weeks after LayerX closed its acquisition by Akamai. Furthermore, Eyal explains why every major agentic browser fell fo...

AI agents for IT operations are moving from pilot to production. Rajesh Ganesan, CEO of ManageEngine, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to walk through the new ZIA Agents rollout. Furthermore, he explains why purpose-built small language models are already beating frontier models on real CIO pro...

AI Changes the Economics of Exploits
Alan Shimel talks with Mehul Revankar, co-founder and CPO of Quantro Security, about why AI vulnerability exploitation is changing cybersecurity economics. Revankar explains that his career has centered on vulnerability research, exposure management and produc...

The agentic AI trust bottleneck is the reason most enterprise AI projects stall in pilot. Anudeep Parhar, Chief Operating Officer for Digital at Entrust, joins Alan Shimel to explain what that bottleneck really is. Furthermore, he lays out how enterprises can finally break through it.

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Governance for agentic coding is the missing piece for enterprises that want to industrialize software delivery. Moritz Plassnig, the newly returned CEO of CloudBees, joins Alan Shimel to explain what he saw in five years away and why he came back. Furthermore, he lays out the shift large organiz...

The AI native development platform race just got more interesting. David DeSanto, CEO of Anaconda, joins Alan Shimel days after Anaconda closed its acquisition of open source coding agent Kilo Code. Furthermore, David explains why coding agents are only the beginning.

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Autonomy Defines the Next AI Shift

Mike Vizard talks with Stamatis N. Astra, co-founder and chief business officer at Intelligent Relations, about what separates AI agents from basic bots and scripted workflows. Astra says the key word is autonomy. Early generative AI tools responded to prompts....

AI Code Generation Raises New Risks
Mike Vizard speaks with Mladen Lazic, CTO of Scopic, about AI code quality and the impact of AI-assisted development on software teams. Lazic says AI coding tools can improve productivity, but they also create new trade-offs. Teams are now generating more code ...

Mike Vizard talks with Derek Larson of COCC and Todd McNeal of SmartBear about how AI is changing test automation as software development accelerates. Larson explains why COCC migrated from Zephyr to QMetry and adopted SmartBear Reflect to expand automated testing beyond a small automation team w...

Mike Vizard talks with Aviral Verma, head of research for Securin, about why AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery and shrinking the time between disclosure and exploitation. Verma explains how attackers can use AI to discover, chain and weaponize bugs faster, while defenders need AI-assiste...

Mike Vizard talks with Joseph Perry, advanced services lead for Arcova, about why OpenClaw and similar AI agents are creating new shadow IT and data-access risks. Perry explains why blanket bans rarely work, arguing that security teams need approved AI paths, sandboxing, role-based access, just-i...

Software engineering is being rewritten in real time. Zohar Einy, Co-Founder and CEO of Port, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to unveil the newly launched Port AI Builder and explain what he calls agentic engineering — the shift from AI as a coding assistant to autonomous AI agents that carry ...

Ransomware recoveries taught Danny Jenkins that reactive security has an expiration date. Danny, CEO and Co-Founder of ThreatLocker, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to explain why default-deny zero trust is the only architecture that scales against modern threats — and how AI is dramatically a...

AI-driven vulnerability management is entering its most consequential decade. Wade Woolwine, Senior Director of Product Security and Distinguished Engineer at Rapid7, sat down with Alan Shimel to unpack the shift. In addition, they explore how AI is rewriting every playbook defenders rely on.

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Attackers are getting faster, and the tools they use are getting cheaper. Chen Burshan, CEO of Skyhawk Security, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to explain why traditional vulnerability management is running out of runway and how autonomous AI red teams are becoming a required defense. A veter...

Verified knowledge for AI agents is quickly becoming the missing layer of the modern software stack. Alex Lato, VP of Product at Stack Overflow, sits down with Alan Shimel to unveil Stack Overflow for Agents. Furthermore, she explains how any coding assistant can now query the corpus and contribu...

Mike Vizard talks with Irwin Teodoro, senior vice president for advisory and transformation services at GDT, about why AI, modernization and hybrid cloud are driving infrastructure costs higher across compute, storage, networking, security and data protection. Teodoro explains why organizations c...

Log4j and SolarWinds didn't just wake up the industry — they redefined the attack surface. Zaid Al Hamami, Founder and CEO of BoostSecurity, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to walk through the wave of software supply chain attacks landing on Microsoft, GitHub, Red Hat, and Cisco, and what defe...

The printer is the most overlooked endpoint in the enterprise — sitting on the network with system-level privileges, untouched architecturally for 20 years, and quietly perfect for spoofing, DDoS staging, and zombie-printer pivots. Kevin Pickhardt, Executive Chairman of Pharos and a Xerox PARC al...

Attackers are no longer sending mass phishing runs — they are using AI to build one-off, bespoke kill chains that are architecturally designed to slip past every gateway you own. Alan LeFort, CEO and Co-Founder of StrongestLayer, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to unpack what his team found wh...

Mike Vizard talks with Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of TuxCare, about why AI-driven vulnerability discovery and weaponization could reshape enterprise security. Seletskiy explains that even low-severity flaws can become dangerous when attackers use AI models to chain exploits, reverse engineer...

Mike Vizard talks with Patrick Quirk, president and general manager of Opengear, about why distributed IT environments, edge deployments, cloud platforms and AI workloads are increasing the pressure on lean IT teams. Quirk explains how AI and automation can help close the skills gap, but only if ...