Mike Vizard talks with Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI, about how AI coding agents are reshaping the relationship between inner loop development and CI/CD pipelines. Zuber explains why faster code generation is pushing validation, testing, review, standards checks and CI-quality feedback closer to the...

Mike Vizard talks with Courtney Werning, Principal at Meyer Wilson Werning, about how AI is making online scams more convincing, scalable and difficult for victims to recognize. Werning explains how deepfakes, polished messaging and fake investment platforms are fueling pig butchering schemes, cr...

Traditional backup gets you data back. Cyber resiliency gets you trust back — and in 2026, that's the only outcome that matters. James Blake, VP of Global Cyber Resiliency Strategy & Consulting Services at Cohesity, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to draw a hard line between BCDR and cyber res...

Mike Vizard talks with Teana Baker-Taylor, CEO of BasedAI, about why many enterprise AI projects remain stuck in costly experiments rather than delivering measurable business outcomes. Baker-Taylor explains how token shock, frontier model costs, data privacy, context engineering, agent permission...

Attackers have AI. Defenders need AI. But that doesn't mean the SOC can run itself. Lisa Liu, Corporate Marketing and Communications Manager at Stellar Cyber, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to make the case that the human in the loop is not optional — and that treating analysts as a brake ped...

From Pearl Harbor to SolarWinds, the data was always there — what was missing was the governance layer to connect signals and act before damage propagated. Ravi Soin, CIO and CISO at Smartsheet, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to explain why that same lesson now defines the AI era and how secu...

Cybersecurity is no longer a CISO conversation — it is a board-level discussion happening alongside AI, geopolitics, and macroeconomic risk. Dylan Sandlin, Program Manager for Digital and Cybersecurity Content at NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors), joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong ...

Mike Vizard talks with Dave Donatelli, CEO of Riverbed, about the company’s push toward autonomous IT operations and digital employee experience. Donatelli explains how Riverbed combines observability, agentic AI, MCP-based context, AI Assurance and automation to help IT teams prevent, detect and...

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...