Techstrong TV Interviews
Techstrong TV interviews with technology leaders, founders, practitioners, analysts and executives across AI, cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud and digital transformation.
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The AI Exfiltration Crisis: Securing Agentic Workflows
The cybersecurity landscape is shifting at breakneck speed, and the rapid adoption of autonomous AI agents has created a massive, unseen attack surface for modern enterprises. Broadcasting live from RSAC, Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with Vorlon Co-founder and CEO Amir Khayat to discu...
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Why Code Validation is the Next Frontier
While the industry is obsessed with how fast AI models like Claude Code can generate code, the real crisis is quietly building further down the pipeline. Signadot CEO Arjun Iyer joins Techstrong TV to explain why accelerating code generation has only shifted the bottleneck to validation, especial...
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Inside Flowtopia — Helen Beal on the Value Stream Renaissance and the Future of Flow
Helen Beal, Founder and Chief Flow:er of Flowtopia, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to talk about what's next for value stream management — and why the conversation is finally moving from "value streams" to flow. Helen traces her journey from IBM and the early DevOps days through chairing the ...
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1Password’s Bold Move to Secure the Agentic Era
The way we work has fundamentally fractured, moving from centralized IT to a chaotic, distributed edge where developers and autonomous agents operate at machine speed. On this episode of Techstrong TV, Alan Shimel sits down with 1Password VP Sanjay Ramnath for an exclusive RSA Conference preview ...
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Inside the Containment Era — Doug Merritt on Why Cloud Security Has to Get Back to First Principles
In this episode of TechStrong TV, Alan Shimel sits down with Doug Merritt — Chairman, CEO and President of Aviatrix and former CEO of Splunk — for a wide-ranging conversation about the shift from the detect-and-respond era he helped define at Splunk to what he's now calling the containment era. T...
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Defending the Private Cloud in the Age of Frontier AI — Inside VMware vDefend
Alan Shimel sits down with Umesh Mahajan, VP & GM of the Application Networking and Security Division at Broadcom, for a candid conversation about what it really takes to secure the private cloud in the era of frontier AI.
Umesh explains why the classic perimeter-and-insurance security posture i...
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The Trust Problem in Cybersecurity — and How to Fix It
Ross McKerchar, CISO at Sophos, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to talk about why trust has become the most important — and most underdeveloped — currency in cybersecurity. Drawing on 19 years inside Sophos and findings from the brand-new 2026 Sophos Trust Reality Report (more than 5,000 organ...
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Beyond RAG — Inside Pinecone Nexus and the Knowledge Engine for Agents
Jeff Zhu, VP of Product at Pinecone, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to dig into Pinecone Nexus and KnowQL — Pinecone's biggest bet yet on the shift from human-driven retrieval to agent-driven knowledge infrastructure.
Jeff explains why the access patterns for vector search have fundamentally...
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Inside the Agentic Red Team — Fighting AI With AI
Yigael Berger, Chief AI Officer at Sweet Security, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to talk about how the new generation of code-aware AI models is rewriting the rules of offensive and defensive security — and to unveil Sweet Attack, Sweet Security's new agentic AI red team service, now general...
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Behavioral Detection Replaces IOC Whac-A-Mole
Mike Vizard talks with Nicole Beckwith of Cribl about why security teams need to move beyond indicator-of-compromise detection models built around hashes, IP addresses, domains and signatures. Beckwith explains that attackers can easily rotate low-level indicators, so SOC teams need to shift towa...
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AI, Observability and the Coming End of Token Maxing — Inside the Next Era of Telemetry
Andre Scott, Developer Advocate at Coralogix, joins Mike Vizard on TechStrong TV to unpack what AI is doing to observability — and what it's going to take to keep up. AI workloads can generate up to 50x more telemetry data than traditional services, and the old index-everything architecture simpl...
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Agentic AI ROI Starts With Trusted Data
Mike Vizard talks with Ahmed Bashir of DevRev about why many organizations are struggling to realize returns from agentic AI investments. Bashir explains that AI can classify, summarize and assess information quickly, but reliable business outcomes depend on trusted data, memory, permissions, pre...
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How Enterprises Should Build AI Agents
Kore.ai CEO Raj Koneru joins Mike Vizard for the Techstrong.ai Leadership Insight Series to discuss why building AI agents is only the first step in transforming enterprise workflows. They examine how organizations are applying agents to customer experience, employee experience and process automa...
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AI Agents Expand Enterprise Security Attack Surface
Mike Vizard talks with Emanuel Salmona of Nagomi Security about why AI agents create a broader and more complex enterprise security challenge than previous technology shifts. Salmona explains that agents introduce new identity, governance, observability and guardrail requirements because they can...
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How AI Is Reshaping Cybersecurity Skills
Hack The Box CEO Haris Pylarinos joins Mike Vizard to discuss how AI is changing the structure of cybersecurity teams, the path from entry-level work to senior expertise and the way defenders respond to machine-speed attacks. They examine why hands-on training becomes more important as AI agents ...
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How AI Enables Continuous Penetration Testing
Synack CTO and co-founder Mark Kuhr joins Mike Vizard to discuss how AI-generated code is increasing pressure on DevSecOps teams and traditional application security processes. They examine why point-in-time penetration testing can no longer keep pace with faster software delivery cycles, especia...
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How AI is Changing Vulnerability Management
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.
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Why Intelligent Connectivity Is the Next Frontier for Physical AI
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The Messy Reality of Vibe Coding
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How AI Broke 20 Years of Browser Security Progress
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The Unstructured Data Crisis: Why Security Teams Can’t See Risk
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Ex-Facebook & Uber CISO: Why AI Changes Everything for Cloud Security
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What OpenAI's Astral Acquisition Means for the Future of Open Source AI
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Taming the Wild West of Autonomous Bots