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...

The days of selectively instrumenting a handful of elite applications are long gone; today's IT environments are drowning in an avalanche of telemetry data generated by everything from microservices to voracious AI agents. Mike Kelly, CEO of Bindplane, warns that blindly hoarding petabytes of log...

We've all been quietly ignoring the messy permissions and data sprawl hiding inside our SharePoint and OneDrive environments for years, but the era of AI is finally bringing those bad habits home to roost. Andy Syrewicze, Technical Evangelist for Hornetsecurity, warns that Microsoft Copilot is in...

Margaret Dawson, Chief Marketing Officer at SUSE, joins Alan Shimel, Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Techstrong Group, on Techstrong TV to preview SUSECON 2026 in Prague. This year’s theme — “Shaping Your Resilient Future” — reflects the growing enterprise need for control, security, and choice...

The countdown to "Q-Day" just got terrifyingly real, as recent breakthroughs suggest adversaries could shatter traditional encryption using a fraction of the quantum computing power previously thought necessary. Rebecca Krauthamer, CEO of QuSecure, warns that while the government has drawn a hard...

The cybersecurity landscape is shifting at breakneck speed, and the rapid adoption of autonomous AI agents has created a massive, unseen attack surface for modern enterprises. Broadcasting live from RSAC, Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with Vorlon Co-founder and CEO Amir Khayat to discu...

While the industry is obsessed with how fast AI models like Claude Code can generate code, the real crisis is quietly building further down the pipeline. Signadot CEO Arjun Iyer joins Techstrong TV to explain why accelerating code generation has only shifted the bottleneck to validation, especial...

Helen Beal, Founder and Chief Flow:er of Flowtopia, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to talk about what's next for value stream management — and why the conversation is finally moving from "value streams" to flow. Helen traces her journey from IBM and the early DevOps days through chairing the ...

The way we work has fundamentally fractured, moving from centralized IT to a chaotic, distributed edge where developers and autonomous agents operate at machine speed. On this episode of Techstrong TV, Alan Shimel sits down with 1Password VP Sanjay Ramnath for an exclusive RSA Conference preview ...

In this episode of TechStrong TV, Alan Shimel sits down with Doug Merritt — Chairman, CEO and President of Aviatrix and former CEO of Splunk — for a wide-ranging conversation about the shift from the detect-and-respond era he helped define at Splunk to what he's now calling the containment era. T...

Alan Shimel sits down with Umesh Mahajan, VP & GM of the Application Networking and Security Division at Broadcom, for a candid conversation about what it really takes to secure the private cloud in the era of frontier AI.

Umesh explains why the classic perimeter-and-insurance security posture i...

Ross McKerchar, CISO at Sophos, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to talk about why trust has become the most important — and most underdeveloped — currency in cybersecurity. Drawing on 19 years inside Sophos and findings from the brand-new 2026 Sophos Trust Reality Report (more than 5,000 organ...

Jeff Zhu, VP of Product at Pinecone, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to dig into Pinecone Nexus and KnowQL — Pinecone's biggest bet yet on the shift from human-driven retrieval to agent-driven knowledge infrastructure.

Jeff explains why the access patterns for vector search have fundamentally...

Yigael Berger, Chief AI Officer at Sweet Security, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to talk about how the new generation of code-aware AI models is rewriting the rules of offensive and defensive security — and to unveil Sweet Attack, Sweet Security's new agentic AI red team service, now general...

Mike Vizard talks with Nicole Beckwith of Cribl about why security teams need to move beyond indicator-of-compromise detection models built around hashes, IP addresses, domains and signatures. Beckwith explains that attackers can easily rotate low-level indicators, so SOC teams need to shift towa...

Andre Scott, Developer Advocate at Coralogix, joins Mike Vizard on TechStrong TV to unpack what AI is doing to observability — and what it's going to take to keep up. AI workloads can generate up to 50x more telemetry data than traditional services, and the old index-everything architecture simpl...

Mike Vizard talks with Ahmed Bashir of DevRev about why many organizations are struggling to realize returns from agentic AI investments. Bashir explains that AI can classify, summarize and assess information quickly, but reliable business outcomes depend on trusted data, memory, permissions, pre...