Techstrong TV Interviews

Techstrong TV Interviews

Techstrong TV interviews with technology leaders, founders, practitioners, analysts and executives across AI, cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud and digital transformation.

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Techstrong TV Interviews
  • Slack for Agents — Building the Internet of Agents

    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 ...

  • Why Your DDoS Defenses Are Failing

    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...

  • Checkmarx Warns AI Coding Raises AppSec Risk

    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...

  • Inside the Onyx C2 Ransomware Business Model

    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 ...

  • Mind the AI Gap — Value Streams and the Adoption Curve

    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...

  • tea.xyz Tackles AI-Era Open Source Risk

    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...

  • Lovelace Cuts AI Costs With Context Engines

    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...

  • Backup Everything — Including Identity and Configuration

    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...

  • Identity for the Agentic AI Era

    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 Becomes Executive Strategy

    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...

  • Commvault Urges Resilience for AI Vulnerability Surge

    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...

  • Closing the Enterprise AI Trust Gap

    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...

  • Half the Web Is Bots — Inside Fastly's Threat Report and the New AI Crawler Problem

    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...

  • Why the Trust Layer Is the Next Thing Developers Will Commodify

    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...

  • How to Reduce ServiceNow Technical Debt

    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...

  • AI Vulnerability Discovery and the Open Source CVE Surge

    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...

  • Why Agentic AI Success Depends on Data Governance

    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...

  • How AI is Changing Vulnerability Management

    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...

  • The Messy Reality of Vibe Coding

    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...

  • Why Intelligent Connectivity Is the Next Frontier for Physical AI

    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...

  • How AI Broke 20 Years of Browser Security Progress

    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...

  • The Unstructured Data Crisis: Why Organizations Can't See Their Biggest Security Risk

    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...

  • What OpenAI's Astral Acquisition Means for the Future of Open Source AI

    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...

  • Ex-Facebook & Uber CISO: Why AI Changes Everything for Cloud Security

    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...