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 ...

Mike Vizard talks with Brad Hibbert, COO and Chief Strategy Officer at Brinqa, about how AI-driven vulnerability discovery is widening the gap between finding and fixing security risks. Hibbert explains why organizations need to move beyond CVSS-based prioritization toward exposure management tha...

DevOps borrowed value stream mapping and used a sliver of what it can actually do. Jack Maher, Founder of ValueStreamPro, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to argue that the manufacturing world's original toolkit — Kanban, Lean, and value stream analysis proven since the 1950s — is ready for a d...

Marnus Marx, Founder and Delivery Confidence Coach at Elanvia Consulting Ltd, joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong.TV to unpack why enterprise delivery breaks down — and it's rarely the team's fault.

Marnus shares his path from Unix/Linux systems into DevOps and delivery coaching, explains what "deli...

Mike Vizard talks with Bill Long, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Zayo, about why AI is making enterprise network traffic less predictable and more demanding. Long explains how network-as-a-service, distributed connectivity, private cloud access, flexible capacity and AI-ready infrastructur...

John Morello, Co-Founder and CTO of Minimus, joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong.TV to discuss the problem his previous company, Twistlock, never fully solved: finding vulnerabilities in container images is easy — remediating them at scale is the real challenge.

John explains how Minimus builds hard...

Jimmy White, VP of AI at F5, joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong.TV to discuss the rise of "shadow AI" — the AI equivalent of shadow IT, where employees adopt AI tools and agents that IT and security teams never approved and can't see.

Jimmy traces his path from Mandiant to Qualtrics to founding Cal...

Mike Vizard talks with Arve Kjoelen, CISO at Barracuda Networks, about why AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery and increasing the pressure on security teams to remediate faster. Kjoelen explains why organizations need more automation for patch testing, asset ownership, vulnerability assign...

Robert Morcos, Founder & CEO of NEXA (formerly Social Mobile), joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong.TV to make the case that mission-critical users — from the U.S. Air Force to first responders — should never be handed the same consumer, off-the-shelf device you'd give an 11-year-old.

Robert traces N...

AI has become the panacea for every problem — but should it be? Dr. Gautham Pallapa, Principal Director of AI and Innovation and a PhD in artificial intelligence since 2007, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to introduce Invaluable, the new book he co-authored with Asanka Abeysinghe, CTO of WSO2...

The agentic SOC is not a pipe dream — and Chris Corde has the roadmap. Three months into his role as Chief Product Officer at SentinelOne (and after 20+ years spanning RSA Security, VMware Carbon Black, and Google Cloud Security), Chris joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to make the case that mod...