While we're all playing with AI chatbots on our laptops, a much more dangerous and exciting revolution is happening out in the dirt, grime, and mission-critical reality of industrial networks. Cisco’s VP of Product Management for Cisco's Industrial IoT Connectivity Portfolio, Samuel Pasquier, joi...

We always hear about the cloud and AI, but the truth is that the mainframe is still the beating heart of the global financial system, and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Alan sat down with Robin Macfarlane, President and CEO of RR Mac Associates, to discuss the realities of mainframe modern...

The AI agent revolution is here, but handing over the keys to the kingdom means nothing if we can't establish a verifiable trail of consent. Twilio’s Head of AI, ML, and Data, Zachary Hanif, joins me today to discuss their launch of A2H (Agent-to-Human), a groundbreaking open-source protocol desi...

We are blindly handing over the keys to the kingdom to AI agents, and as Mend.io Field CTO Amit Chita joins us today, it’s clear that the "indirect prompt injection" threat is no longer theoretical—it's a critical boardroom risk. While organizations rush to give chatbots the ability to delete fil...

While the rest of the world is just waking up to the realities of "agentic AI," Akka CEO Tyler Jewell joins us today to explain why his company has actually been building the foundation for it for the last 20 years. From powering systems that handle 2 billion users daily to deploying highly regul...

We are in a gold rush of AI-generated code, but as ImmuniWeb CEO Dr. Ilia Kolochenko makes clear on Techstrong TV, the idea of "perfect AI" is a dangerous illusion. Dr. Kolochenko—who uniquely navigates the intersection of cybersecurity and complex cyber law—warns that because LLMs are trained on...

For over 25 years, Active Directory has been the bedrock of enterprise identity, but as Cayosoft Founder and CEO Bob Bobel explains, the shift to the cloud has left IT teams stranded in a complex, high-stakes hybrid reality. While Microsoft pushes toward Entra ID, the majority of organizations ar...

We’ve spent 15 years telling ourselves that quantum computing is a "future problem," but as a Quantum Security 25 leader and Qrypt CTO Denis Mandich makes clear, Q-Day is no longer a distant sci-fi fantasy—it’s an imminent deadline for global economic survival. From the silent gathering of "Harve...

While large enterprises boast massive budgets for AI experimentation, small and medium businesses (SMBs) are quietly using agility to their advantage by rapidly adopting AI tools to solve real-world operational bottlenecks. Ben Schreiner, AWS's Head of AI and Modern Data Strategy Business Develop...

We’ve all heard about the AI disruption, but as Eclipse Foundation CMO Thabang Mashologu joins Alan today, it’s clear that we are hitting a massive "goodness squared" problem of scale that no one was truly prepared for. AI agents are now hitting registries like Open VSX at 20 times the rate of hu...

We’ve spent decades trying to train humans to write secure code and failing, but as Endor Labs Founder and CEO Varun Badhwar joins us today, it’s clear that we finally have an opportunity to get the agents to do it right. With AI coding assistants now producing 61% functionally correct code—but o...

For years, we’ve heard that quantum computing is always "five to ten years away," but as apexanalytics’ Akhilesh Agarwal joins us today, it’s clear that the "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" threat has turned that timeline into an immediate boardroom crisis. apexanalytics is currently protecting over ...

The age of digital transformation is shifting from platform modernization to a high-stakes battle over execution performance in a world accelerated by artificial intelligence. Israel Forst, the newly appointed CEO of Valiantys, warns that while AI offers a massive multiplier effect for cycle time...

We’ve moved past the era of just putting "walls around the code," and as Snyk’s Chief Innovation Officer Manoj Nair joins us from Lisbon, it’s clear that securing the AI-driven enterprise requires a fundamental shift from gatekeeping to building a pervasive security fabric. With the release of Sn...

The drive for speed in the ServiceNow era is a double-edged sword that often forces IT teams to port messy legacy workflows directly into the platform, creating a compounding interest of technical debt that can eventually lead to a total platform collapse. Ron Browning, co-founder & CEO of Dyna S...

Phil Christianson, chief product officer at Xurrent, explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping IT service management (ITSM). As organizations move beyond ticketing and reactive workflows, AI is enabling predictive insights, automated resolution and intelligent service orchestration. Chris...

In this Techstrong AI Leadership interview, Simba Khadder, Context Engine Lead for Redis, warns that while the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) are doubling every few months, the real winners will be the organizations that can feed these agents the right data at the right ti...

The rush to automate is hitting a major speed bump as enterprises realize that bolting a high-performance AI engine onto a legacy horse-and-buggy process is a recipe for a pilot program disaster. Harshil Shah, Director of Engineering for R Systems, warns that the real challenge isn't building the...

Think "Q-Day" is a decade-long fairytale? As Protiviti’s Konstantinos Karagiannis—a inaugural member of our Quantum Security 25—joins Techstrong TV, he makes it clear that the countdown to cryptographically relevant quantum computers is accelerating faster than even the optimists predicted. Karag...

We’ve spent 15 years perfecting how businesses buy and sell subscriptions, but as AppDirect CTO Andy Sen explains, the rise of agentic AI is flipping the script on the traditional marketplace. It’s no longer just about humans clicking buttons; we are moving into a world where AI agents are the pr...

In the Techstrong AI Leadership interview, Dr. Aqib Rashid warns that "agentic" workflows introduce a level of unpredictability that can turn a minor misaligned input into a global production meltdown. While natural language interfaces are finally democratizing high-level automation for the "mere...

RSA Conference 2026 marks a milestone 35th anniversary, celebrating a legacy that has grown from a single panel in 1991 to a global community of over 43,000 security professionals. This year’s theme, "The Power of Community," anchors an agenda dominated by the rapid evolution of AI governance, qu...

Dhawal Sharma, Executive Vice President for Product Strategy at Zscaler, discussed the company's acquisition of SquareX and how it addresses emerging browser security challenges in the AI era. This strategic integration allows organizations to enforce intent-based AI guardrails and data loss prev...

As AI-generated code floods the industry, organizations are grappling with an unprecedented accumulation of technical debt and hidden vulnerabilities within their open-source dependencies. ActiveState CTO/CPO Bob Shaker joins Techstrong TV to discuss how the company is deploying its own agentic A...