AI consumption management is now a board level concern. Sanjay Ramnath, VP of Product and Solutions Marketing at 1Password, joins Alan Shimel to unpack the new AI spend and consumption capability built into the 1Password SaaS Manager product. Furthermore, Sanjay explains why the traditional SaaS ...

AI native observability is now a strategic requirement. Gabriel-James Safar, co-founder and CEO of Tsuga, joins Alan Shimel to explain why traditional observability stacks buckle under AI SRE agents and how a bring your own cloud deployment restores control. Furthermore, GJ unpacks Tsuga's approa...

Self improving AI is no longer a research curiosity. Kunal Bhatia, CEO and co-founder of Hexo Labs, joins Alan Shimel on why enterprises must own their own intelligent stack. Furthermore, Kunal explains how SIA, the first system of its kind, trains both the weights and the harness of another agen...

The first cybersecurity MCP server just shipped. Wolfgang Goerlich, IANS faculty member and public sector CISO, joins Alan Shimel on how IANS now drops peer research straight into your prompt. Furthermore, Wolfgang unpacks whether AI is dulling security teams or quietly sharpening the pros who us...

AI just broke the old operating model. Dr. Mik Kersten, AI expert in residence at Planview and author of Output to Outcome, joins Alan Shimel on why enterprises must rewire around an AI native operating model. Furthermore, Mik unpacks the seven shifts leaders use to pull ahead.

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Trusted AIOps automation is the story of the year. Xavier Lecauchois, senior director of Ansible Automation Platform Delivery at Red Hat, joins Alan Shimel on how Red Hat blends generative and agentic AI with deterministic Ansible playbooks. Furthermore, Xav explains why AI does not remove operat...

Legacy DLP Is Showing Its Age
Mike Vizard speaks with Ido Livneh, Co-Founder and CEO of Jazz, about why legacy data loss prevention tools are struggling in the age of AI. Livneh says many DLP programs were built for a different era. They often rely on rigid rules, pattern matching and manual revi...

Behavioral AI security is expanding beyond email. Mike Britton, CIO of Abnormal AI, joins Alan Shimel to unpack this week's launch of Identity Detection and Response, AI Security and Infiltration Prevention. Furthermore, Mike explains why identity is the new perimeter and how baselining works eve...

Code Red Still Offers Security Lessons
Mike Vizard speaks with Marc Maiffret, CTO of BeyondTrust, about the legacy of the Code Red worm and what it can teach security teams about AI security. Maiffret explains that Code Red was one of the first automated worms to spread widely across Microsoft we...

Multilayer private cloud security is the story of the week. Umesh Mahajan, VP and GM of the Application Networking and Security division at Broadcom, joins Alan Shimel to unpack Broadcom's new multilayer cyber defense announcement for VMware Cloud Foundation. Furthermore, Umesh explains why AI at...

Post quantum readiness has moved from theory to boardroom priority. Kevin Hilscher, Senior Director of Product Management at DigiCert, joins Alan Shimel to unpack DigiCert's 2026 Post Quantum Readiness Outlook, the NIST 2030 and 2035 deadlines, and the awareness to execution cliff facing enterpri...

Signal Intelligence Changes the Observability Model
Mike Vizard talks with Ronak Desai, CEO of Ciroos, about why observability is moving toward signal intelligence. Desai says traditional dashboards have created too much cognitive load for SRE, DevOps and operations teams. Teams receive thousands...

Observability Engineering Enters the AI Era
Alan Shimel talks with Liz Fong-Jones, Technical Fellow at Honeycomb, about the evolving role of observability engineering as AI changes how software is built, shipped and validated. Fong-Jones explains that AI is giving teams more ability to create sof...

CloudBolt Connects Infrastructure, AI and FinOps
Alan Shimel talks with Yasmin Rajabi, Chief Operating Officer at CloudBolt, about the changing role of infrastructure management as enterprises adopt Kubernetes, AI tools and cloud cost controls. Rajabi explains that CloudBolt helps organizations m...

AI Collective Defense Reshapes Cybersecurity
Alan Shimel talks with Sachin Jade, Chief Product Officer at Cyware, about why AI is changing the economics of both cyberattacks and cyber defense. Jade explains that attackers can now find vulnerabilities, plan exploit paths and launch campaigns much ...

Mike Vizard talks with Ben Volkow, co-founder and CEO of QIZ Security, about why post-quantum cryptography is becoming an urgent priority for enterprise cybersecurity leaders. Volkow explains that quantum computers are expected to eventually break widely used encryption methods such as RSA and EC...

Engineers inherit the earth in every technology revolution, and the AI era is no exception. Ariel Assaraf, CEO and co-founder of Coralogix, joins Alan Shimel to argue the pendulum is swinging back after a year of layoffs. Furthermore, the bar to call yourself an engineer has never been higher.

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The BioShocking AI browser attack is one of the more unsettling pieces of AI security research this year. Eyal Arazi, head of product marketing at LayerX, joins Alan Shimel just weeks after LayerX closed its acquisition by Akamai. Furthermore, Eyal explains why every major agentic browser fell fo...

AI agents for IT operations are moving from pilot to production. Rajesh Ganesan, CEO of ManageEngine, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to walk through the new ZIA Agents rollout. Furthermore, he explains why purpose-built small language models are already beating frontier models on real CIO pro...

AI Changes the Economics of Exploits
Alan Shimel talks with Mehul Revankar, co-founder and CPO of Quantro Security, about why AI vulnerability exploitation is changing cybersecurity economics. Revankar explains that his career has centered on vulnerability research, exposure management and produc...

The agentic AI trust bottleneck is the reason most enterprise AI projects stall in pilot. Anudeep Parhar, Chief Operating Officer for Digital at Entrust, joins Alan Shimel to explain what that bottleneck really is. Furthermore, he lays out how enterprises can finally break through it.

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Governance for agentic coding is the missing piece for enterprises that want to industrialize software delivery. Moritz Plassnig, the newly returned CEO of CloudBees, joins Alan Shimel to explain what he saw in five years away and why he came back. Furthermore, he lays out the shift large organiz...

The AI native development platform race just got more interesting. David DeSanto, CEO of Anaconda, joins Alan Shimel days after Anaconda closed its acquisition of open source coding agent Kilo Code. Furthermore, David explains why coding agents are only the beginning.

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Autonomy Defines the Next AI Shift

Mike Vizard talks with Stamatis N. Astra, co-founder and chief business officer at Intelligent Relations, about what separates AI agents from basic bots and scripted workflows. Astra says the key word is autonomy. Early generative AI tools responded to prompts....