Marshall Erwin, Chief Information Security Officer at Fastly, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to dig into Fastly's latest threat report — and the numbers are staggering. Roughly 49% of all requests Fastly's customers see are now bot-driven, and 99% of that traffic is unwanted. Even more eye-op...

Mike Hideo, Vice President of Software Engineering at TinyMCE, joins Mike Vizard on TechStrong TV to talk about a quiet but seismic shift inside enterprise engineering: product roadmaps are drowning in AI work. Healthcare, banking and government teams who never set out to build AI products are no...

DynaSoftware CEO Ron Browning joins Mike Vizard to discuss why ServiceNow technical debt often starts when legacy workflows, poor configurations and rushed designs are carried into the platform. They explore how custom development, environment drift and weak governance can make upgrades harder wh...

HeroDevs CEO Aaron Mitchell joins Mike Vizard to discuss how Claude Mythos Preview and other AI tools are accelerating vulnerability discovery across open source software. They examine why the resulting CVE surge is putting new pressure on maintainers, security teams and enterprises that depend o...

eClerx head of global technology Sanjay Kukreja joins Mike Vizard to discuss why many agentic AI challenges are rooted less in models and more in data governance, process debt and weak controls. They examine why pilots can look successful on limited data sets but fail when moved into production e...

Everybody is kind of freaking out about AI autonomously discovering zero-day vulnerabilities, but the reality is that the bad guys are already using these tools to shrink our patch windows to near zero. Barracuda Networks CISO Arve Kjoelen explains that while we're going to see a massive short-te...

Everybody and their brother is panicking about AI coding tools generating a tidal wave of vulnerabilities, but according to UneeQ CTO Tyler Merritt, freezing up out of fear is the worst thing an organization can do. Instead of treating "vibe coding" like an inherent disaster, IT teams need to emb...

Payman Samadi, Co-founder and CEO of eino, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to discuss why connectivity is becoming the execution layer for physical AI — and why the workflows most teams use to plan, build, and operate networks are badly out of date.

Payman shares the founding story of eino, t...

99% of users have at least one browser extension. 75% have extensions with high or critical permissions. And every single time LayerX runs a proof of concept, they find malicious extensions already installed in the environment.

In this episode of TechStrong TV, Alan Shimel sits down with Or Eshe...

In this episode of TechStrong TV, Alan Shimel talks with Hilary Barron, AVP of Research at the Cloud Security Alliance, and Todd Moore, VP of Data Security Products at Thales, about their new joint survey on the rise of unstructured data. They discuss why organizations overestimate their data sec...

In this episode of TechStrong TV, Alan Shimel talks with David DeSanto, CEO of Anaconda, about OpenAI's acquisition of Astral, what it means for the Python ecosystem and open source community, and why trust in AI development has never been more important. David also shares details on Anaconda's n...

What happens when a former federal prosecutor turned CISO of Facebook, Uber, and Cloudflare turns his attention to AI and cloud security? In this episode of TechStrong TV, Alan Shimel sits down with Joe Sullivan, security advisor at Upwind Security, for a wide-ranging conversation about the state...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rocketing past its original design parameters at breakneck speed, leaving the developer community scrambling to build clients fast enough to keep up with the protocol's relentless evolution. Joey Stout, Solutions Architect for Spacelift.io, warns that this expl...

What does a veteran hacker with over 20 years in offensive and defensive security think about the AI revolution? In this episode of TechStrong TV, Alan Shimel sits down with Joe Cortese, Pen Test Director at A-LIGN, to explore how AI is fundamentally reshaping the cybersecurity landscape for atta...

The honeymoon phase of generative AI is officially over, and enterprises are finally waking up to a harsh reality: 87% of IT leaders admit that poor data readiness is completely blocking their AI initiatives from reaching production. Shirshanka Das, co-founder and CTO of DataHub, explains that th...

Ian Livingstone, Co-Founder and CEO of Keycard, joins Alan Shimel, Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Techstrong Group, on TechStrong TV to discuss why AI agents are breaking every traditional security model. Ian describes the “lethal trifecta” of agent risk — non-deterministic actors with access ...

Clinton Karr, Chief Marketing Officer at ProGEO.ai, joins Alan Shimel, Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Techstrong Group, on TechStrong TV to share the results of his RSAC 2026 survey of 112 marketing professionals on AI adoption in their workflows. The survey reveals 91% of cybersecurity market...

The era of the autonomous AI agent has officially arrived, and it's already shaping up to be a total "Wild West" where non-existent guardrails and delegated identities are turning everyday enterprise networks into a security professional's worst nightmare. Valentin Vasilyev, CTO of Fingerprint, w...

The golden age of OpenTelemetry has officially arrived, but the massive surge in adoption is leaving unprepared DevOps teams drowning in a costly avalanche of unfiltered data. Ryan Goins, Head of Product for Bindplane, explains how enterprises are breaking free from vendor lock-in by deploying hu...

The age of spending weeks writing product documents and manually testing patches is officially dead, replaced by a chaotic but thrilling era of "machine-speed" security where adversaries and defenders are locked in an AI arms race. Hart Rossman, Vice President of Security for AWS, explains that t...

The days of selectively instrumenting a handful of elite applications are long gone; today's IT environments are drowning in an avalanche of telemetry data generated by everything from microservices to voracious AI agents. Mike Kelly, CEO of Bindplane, warns that blindly hoarding petabytes of log...

We've all been quietly ignoring the messy permissions and data sprawl hiding inside our SharePoint and OneDrive environments for years, but the era of AI is finally bringing those bad habits home to roost. Andy Syrewicze, Technical Evangelist for Hornetsecurity, warns that Microsoft Copilot is in...

Margaret Dawson, Chief Marketing Officer at SUSE, joins Alan Shimel, Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Techstrong Group, on Techstrong TV to preview SUSECON 2026 in Prague. This year’s theme — “Shaping Your Resilient Future” — reflects the growing enterprise need for control, security, and choice...

The countdown to "Q-Day" just got terrifyingly real, as recent breakthroughs suggest adversaries could shatter traditional encryption using a fraction of the quantum computing power previously thought necessary. Rebecca Krauthamer, CEO of QuSecure, warns that while the government has drawn a hard...