Techstrong TV Interviews

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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  • Verified Knowledge for AI Coding Agents

    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...

  • GDT Maps the Infrastructure Cost of AI Readiness

    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...

  • The Cool-Down Period for Open Source

    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 End of the Print Driver

    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...

  • Bespoke Kill Chains and the End of Signature-Based Email Security

    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...

  • TuxCare Warns AI Will Weaponize Vulnerability Chains

    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...

  • Opengear Frames AI Automation Around Resilience

    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 ...

  • Brinqa Prioritizes AI-Era Exposure Management

    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...

  • From Value Stream Maps to Digital Twins

    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...

  • Why Your Best People Can't Save a Broken Delivery System

    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...

  • Zayo Reframes Networking for the AI Era

    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...

  • Most Container Images You Pull Today Are Already Full of Vulnerabilities

    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...

  • Your Company Has a Shadow AI Problem You Don't Know About

    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...

  • Barracuda CISO Urges AI-Ready Vulnerability Management

    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...

  • Why the U.S. Military Should Not Carry the Same Phone as Your Kid

    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...

  • Does It Really Need AI?

    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: Pipe Dream or Reality?

    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...

  • AI-Driven Testing and the Governance Gap

    QA got to automation long before AI showed up — and now agents are rewriting the playbook again. Ole Lensmar, CTO and Co-Founder of Testkube and the creator of SoapUI, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to explain why CI pipelines were never built for test-centric workflows, how Testkube decouple...

  • Systemic Thinking in the Age of AI

    Complexity is everywhere, and pattern-matching alone will not carry leaders through the next decade. Esther Ovejero, CEO of Vecta Global, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV for a wide-ranging conversation on systemic thinking, business agility, and the emerging future of AI. From her roots as a t...

  • The Case Against Token-Based Pricing

    Token anxiety is real — and it is quietly reshaping the enterprise AI conversation. Don Schuerman, Chief Technology Officer at Pegasystems and a 25-year Pega veteran, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to unpack the PegaWorld announcement that flips the model on its head: agentic workflow pricing...

  • Hypori CISO Connects AI Risk to Data Sovereignty

    Mike Vizard talks with Matt Stern, chief security officer for Hypori, about why digital sovereignty and data sovereignty are becoming more urgent as AI, mobile work and cloud platforms expand where sensitive data can travel. Stern explains why organizations must know where data resides, which clo...

  • The Cyber Team as Code Producer

    For 20 years, security lived one step behind engineering — chasing vulnerabilities, running assessments, and pushing developers to build things more securely. Tom Tovar, Co-Founder and CEO of Appdome, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to make the case that AI is finally flipping that script. In ...

  • Rebuilding Identity for the Agentic Era

    Identity has become the control plane of the modern enterprise — and, as attackers have figured out, its weakest link. Zohar Alon, Co-Founder and CEO of NewCore, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to introduce his new company, fresh out of stealth with roughly $66 million in funding from Cybersta...

  • Reading the Cyber Tea Leaves for RSAC 2027

    What do thousands of cybersecurity practitioners actually care about — and where is the industry really headed? Laura Koetzle, Head of Community Research at RSAC, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to walk through the newly released Volume 6 report and preview the road to RSAC 2027. A 20-plus-yea...