While mega-corporations try to lock developers into proprietary, "black-box" AI ecosystems, a massive grassroots movement is fighting to keep the future of software development open. OpenHands CEO and co-founder Robert Brennan joins Techstrong TV to discuss how their open-source SDK is empowering...

We are speeding headfirst into a massive brick wall of AI-generated code, and the old methods of sandboxing and manual review simply aren't going to cut it anymore. Crafting.dev CEO and co-founder Sumeet Vaidya stops by Techstrong TV to discuss their recent seed funding announcement and how their...

It is no secret that the tech landscape is moving at lightspeed, but handing autonomous AI agents the keys to a grossly over-permissioned enterprise kingdom is an absolute recipe for disaster. Alan Shimel sits down with Oso CEO Graham Neray to unpack a staggering new joint study with Cyera, revea...

The age of AI is putting an unprecedented strain on enterprise databases, and organizations are already finding out the hard way that letting autonomous agents loose on production data without automated guardrails is a recipe for catastrophic downtime. Ryan McCurdy, Vice President of Marketing fo...

While we're all busy marveling at how fast AI can generate code, no one is talking about the terrifying amount of sensitive data it's leaving behind in plain text. GitGuardian CMO Carole Wingwist and Principal Developer Advocate Dwayne McDaniel join Techstrong TV to discuss their jaw-dropping 202...

The era of the "digital human" is officially here, and it’s rewriting the rules of enterprise security. John Aisien, Senior Vice President of Central Product Management at ServiceNow, explains how their recent acquisition of Veza catapults the ITSM giant into the access intelligence game, allowin...

Alan Shimel stops the presses just days before RSA Conference to sit down with RSAC's Cecilia Marinier and Laura Koetzle to discuss their newly released report detailing the staggering impact of the Innovation Sandbox. From an eleventh-hour update to include Wiz's massive $32 billion acquisition ...

While the industry has spent decades mastering human identity and access management, the explosion of agentic AI has introduced a massive new blind spot for enterprise security. Token Security CEO and co-founder Itamar Apelblat sits down on Techstrong TV ahead of the RSA Innovation Sandbox to dis...

The IT channel is no stranger to the looming threat of extinction, but the age of AI is once again separating the disruptors from the disrupted. Alex Smith, Vice President of Ecosystem Channels at the Futurum Group, notes that while optimistic partners are riding a wave of AI-driven portfolio gro...

As the honeymoon phase of generative AI wears off, enterprises are realizing that a highly creative, probabilistic model isn't exactly what you want managing your core financial systems. Binny Gill, CEO of Kognitos, argues the solution is "neurosymbolic AI," an approach that marries the natural l...

While Washington spends all its airtime debating the regulation of AI, there's a multi-trillion-dollar threat silently gathering momentum that requires immediate action. QuSecure CEO and co-founder Rebecca Krauthamer, recently named to the inaugural Quantum Security 25 list, joins Techstrong TV t...

The cybersecurity market is reinventing itself at unprecedented speed, leaving traditional methodologies in the dust. On this episode of Techstrong TV, Checkmarx's Steve Boone joins Alan Shimel to explore how the conventional software development lifecycle is rapidly evolving into an "agentic del...

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 ...