Akamai announced its intent to acquire LayerX Security for approximately $205 million, pairing the world's most distributed edge platform and fastest ZTNA with LayerX's browser and AI security. Or Eshed, Co-Founder and CEO of LayerX Security, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to unpack what the ...

Mike Vizard talks with Jay Litkey, Senior Vice President of Cloud and FinOps at Flexera and a governing board member of the FinOps Foundation, about the rise of tokenomics as enterprises confront fast-growing AI spending. Litkey explains how the Tokenomics Foundation aims to extend FinOps practic...

AI-native pen testing tools like Mythos and the next wave of open-source variants have flipped a 25-year-old security bottleneck on its head. The hard problem is no longer finding vulnerabilities — it is what to do with the flood of them, faster than humans can respond. Manoj Nair, Chief Technolo...

Enterprises can see less of their identity environment every year, and agentic AI is about to make it dramatically worse. Roy Katmor, CEO and Co-Founder of Orchid Security, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to walk through Orchid's 2026 Identity Gap report — a snapshot of what they call the "ide...

Zero trust hasn't failed — the industry sold it as a product and stopped at identity. In this TechStrong TV interview, Portnox Field CISO Garrett Gross joins Mike Vizard to push back on the narrative that zero trust is broken and lay out what continuous enforcement actually looks like. Garrett an...

AppSec was built for humans clicking through dashboards — but vulnerabilities now get weaponized in minutes, not weeks. In this TechStrong TV interview, Detectify CEO and Co-Founder Rickard Carlsson joins Alan Shimel to unpack the company’s newly announced MCP Server and why he believes “agent ex...

Mike Vizard talks with Kyle Sosnowski, VP Engineering, Cloud at Crusoe, about why AI inference workloads require infrastructure choices beyond default hyperscaler deployments. Sosnowski explains how GPU capacity, memory bandwidth, latency, observability and automation are reshaping cloud strategy...

Cybersecurity has officially entered the AI vs AI era. Nadir Izrael, Co-Founder and CTO of Armis — now part of ServiceNow — joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to talk about what changes when attackers run at machine speed and defenders have to keep up. Nadir explains why pre-breach response windo...

Every enterprise now runs two workforces — the human one they can see, and the AI one they mostly can't. Lexi Reese, CEO and Co-Founder of Lanai, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to walk through Lanai's 2026 AI Labor Report, built on a study of 200 C-level executives at companies with 1,000+ em...

Mike Vizard talks with Jason Ambrose, CEO of Backstory, about the coming “tokenocalypse” as enterprises confront rising AI consumption and unpredictable LLM costs. Ambrose explains why tokenomics, ROI discipline, model routing, context management and AI FinOps practices are becoming essential as ...

Mike Vizard talks with Shashi Kiran, Chief Marketing Officer at Nile, about how AI demand, supply chain volatility and rising infrastructure costs are reshaping enterprise networking. Kiran explains why organizations are rethinking CapEx-heavy refresh cycles in favor of network-as-a-service model...

When every employee runs a hundred AI agents and every enterprise stack lights up with many-to-many traffic, perimeter security stops making sense. Duncan Greatwood, CEO of Xage Security, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to explain why the chaos Xage solved in oil pipelines, utilities, and mili...

Most organizations still treat the value stream as a team-level mapping exercise — but the real picture is much bigger. Helen Beal, Chief Flow of Flowtopia, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to preview Flowtopia Live 2026 — the 12-hour virtual conference on June 24 with 50 live talks across prod...

Most conference talks pitch the polished win. Ja'Mesa Dixon, Senior Delivery Stream Lead at Zayo Group, is at Flowtopia Live 2026 to tell a different story — the messy middle. Ja'Mesa joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to preview her first-ever conference talk, where she'll walk through what it a...

Mike Vizard talks with Ted Julian, CEO and Founder of Flux, about why AI-driven software development is creating new demand for software engineering intelligence. Julian explains how Flux analyzes pull requests and code changes directly to surface bottlenecks, risk, complexity, technical debt, pr...

Today's agents work in silos — built in different frameworks, hosted on different clouds, locked inside different SaaS platforms. Arick Goomanovsky, CEO and Co-Founder of BAND, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to explain why that won't work in the agentic economy, and what his team is building ...

Every damaging DDoS attack today traces back to one root cause — a configuration vulnerability in defenses that were supposed to work. Matthew Andriani, Founder and CEO of MazeBolt, sits down with Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to share what nearly two decades inside the DDoS industry — first at Ch...

Mike Vizard talks with Jonathan Rende, Chief Product Officer at Checkmarx, about new survey findings showing that AI-generated code is accelerating software delivery while expanding application security risk. Rende explains why developers continue to ship vulnerable code, why security must be emb...

For $250 a month, anyone with zero skill can now run a ransomware operation — keylogging, RATs, session cookie theft, and full attacker support included. Dr. Darren Williams, Founder and CEO of BlackFog, returns to TechStrong TV with Alan Shimel to unpack Onyx C2, the new ransomware-as-a-service ...

AI capability is doubling every six to seven months — but most organizations are nowhere near ready to absorb it. Brian Paniccia, Chief Product Officer at nVeris and Managing Partner of TecVeris, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV ahead of his Flowtopia 2026 session, ‘Mind the AI Gap.’ Brian trac...

Mike Vizard talks with Tim Lewis, Co-Founder and CEO of tea.xyz, about how AI-driven vulnerability discovery is intensifying pressure on open source maintainers. Lewis explains why unpaid maintainers face a new wave of agentic pull requests, supply chain threats and validation costs that existing...

Mike Vizard talks with Andrew Moore, Founder and CEO of Lovelace, about why knowledge graphs and context engines are becoming critical to reliable enterprise AI. Moore explains how Lovelace’s YottaGraph and Elemental platform help AI agents reason across massive data sets without stuffing prompts...

Everyone backs up their data. Almost no one backs up the configuration around it — and that's why a single misconfigured DNS record, deleted Route 53 zone, or wiped Okta tenant can take an entire business offline even when the data is safe. Aharon Twizer, CEO and Co-Founder of ControlMonkey, join...