Identity used to stop at login. In the agentic AI era, it can't. Peter Barker, Chief Product Officer at Ping Identity, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to break down what changes when every employee is suddenly running dozens or hundreds of agents — some long-lived, some ephemeral, many over-pe...

AI sovereignty has moved from water-cooler debate to boardroom mandate. Logan Wolfe, Partner for Global AI Strategy and Sovereign Transformation at Kyndryl, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to unpack why a shifting geopolitical landscape, the AI build-out, and the energy footprint behind it are...

Mike Vizard talks with Vidya Shankaran, Field CTO for Cloud, Security and Emerging Technology at Commvault, about how frontier AI models are accelerating vulnerability discovery and exploitation. Shankaran explains why enterprises can no longer rely on traditional patching timelines alone and nee...

Eighty-five percent of large enterprises have piloted AI agents, but only 5% have deployed them to production. Brian Stimpfl, CEO of S-Docs, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to unpack the trust and governance gap behind that number and what it takes to move from agentic experimentation to agent...

Marshall Erwin, Chief Information Security Officer at Fastly, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to dig into Fastly's latest threat report — and the numbers are staggering. Roughly 49% of all requests Fastly's customers see are now bot-driven, and 99% of that traffic is unwanted. Even more eye-op...

Mike Hideo, Vice President of Software Engineering at TinyMCE, joins Mike Vizard on TechStrong TV to talk about a quiet but seismic shift inside enterprise engineering: product roadmaps are drowning in AI work. Healthcare, banking and government teams who never set out to build AI products are no...

DynaSoftware CEO Ron Browning joins Mike Vizard to discuss why ServiceNow technical debt often starts when legacy workflows, poor configurations and rushed designs are carried into the platform. They explore how custom development, environment drift and weak governance can make upgrades harder wh...

HeroDevs CEO Aaron Mitchell joins Mike Vizard to discuss how Claude Mythos Preview and other AI tools are accelerating vulnerability discovery across open source software. They examine why the resulting CVE surge is putting new pressure on maintainers, security teams and enterprises that depend o...

eClerx head of global technology Sanjay Kukreja joins Mike Vizard to discuss why many agentic AI challenges are rooted less in models and more in data governance, process debt and weak controls. They examine why pilots can look successful on limited data sets but fail when moved into production e...

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. Barracuda Networks CISO Arve Kjoelen explains that while we're going to see a massive short-te...

Everybody and their brother is panicking about AI coding tools generating a tidal wave of vulnerabilities, but according to UneeQ CTO Tyler Merritt, freezing up out of fear is the worst thing an organization can do. Instead of treating "vibe coding" like an inherent disaster, IT teams need to emb...

Payman Samadi, Co-founder and CEO of eino, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to discuss why connectivity is becoming the execution layer for physical AI — and why the workflows most teams use to plan, build, and operate networks are badly out of date.

Payman shares the founding story of eino, t...

99% of users have at least one browser extension. 75% have extensions with high or critical permissions. And every single time LayerX runs a proof of concept, they find malicious extensions already installed in the environment.

In this episode of TechStrong TV, Alan Shimel sits down with Or Eshe...

In this episode of TechStrong TV, Alan Shimel talks with Hilary Barron, AVP of Research at the Cloud Security Alliance, and Todd Moore, VP of Data Security Products at Thales, about their new joint survey on the rise of unstructured data. They discuss why organizations overestimate their data sec...

In this episode of TechStrong TV, Alan Shimel talks with David DeSanto, CEO of Anaconda, about OpenAI's acquisition of Astral, what it means for the Python ecosystem and open source community, and why trust in AI development has never been more important. David also shares details on Anaconda's n...

What happens when a former federal prosecutor turned CISO of Facebook, Uber, and Cloudflare turns his attention to AI and cloud security? In this episode of TechStrong TV, Alan Shimel sits down with Joe Sullivan, security advisor at Upwind Security, for a wide-ranging conversation about the state...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rocketing past its original design parameters at breakneck speed, leaving the developer community scrambling to build clients fast enough to keep up with the protocol's relentless evolution. Joey Stout, Solutions Architect for Spacelift.io, warns that this expl...

What does a veteran hacker with over 20 years in offensive and defensive security think about the AI revolution? In this episode of TechStrong TV, Alan Shimel sits down with Joe Cortese, Pen Test Director at A-LIGN, to explore how AI is fundamentally reshaping the cybersecurity landscape for atta...

The honeymoon phase of generative AI is officially over, and enterprises are finally waking up to a harsh reality: 87% of IT leaders admit that poor data readiness is completely blocking their AI initiatives from reaching production. Shirshanka Das, co-founder and CTO of DataHub, explains that th...

Ian Livingstone, Co-Founder and CEO of Keycard, joins Alan Shimel, Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Techstrong Group, on TechStrong TV to discuss why AI agents are breaking every traditional security model. Ian describes the “lethal trifecta” of agent risk — non-deterministic actors with access ...

Clinton Karr, Chief Marketing Officer at ProGEO.ai, joins Alan Shimel, Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Techstrong Group, on TechStrong TV to share the results of his RSAC 2026 survey of 112 marketing professionals on AI adoption in their workflows. The survey reveals 91% of cybersecurity market...

The era of the autonomous AI agent has officially arrived, and it's already shaping up to be a total "Wild West" where non-existent guardrails and delegated identities are turning everyday enterprise networks into a security professional's worst nightmare. Valentin Vasilyev, CTO of Fingerprint, w...

The golden age of OpenTelemetry has officially arrived, but the massive surge in adoption is leaving unprepared DevOps teams drowning in a costly avalanche of unfiltered data. Ryan Goins, Head of Product for Bindplane, explains how enterprises are breaking free from vendor lock-in by deploying hu...

The age of spending weeks writing product documents and manually testing patches is officially dead, replaced by a chaotic but thrilling era of "machine-speed" security where adversaries and defenders are locked in an AI arms race. Hart Rossman, Vice President of Security for AWS, explains that t...