Expert Insights Podcast

Diego Zavala discusses how digital credentials can replace physical IDs, limit the data businesses hold, and close the gaps that passkeys leave open. Last month, scans of more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licenses were allegedly leaked and offered for sale on cybercrime forums, leaving cybersecurity professionals globally wondering whether there’s a better way of securing identities...

AI has made attacks both more frequent and more convincing. In this episode, Juraj Janosik, VP of AI at ESET, explains how attackers use AI to sharpen phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC), making their messages hard to tell apart from genuine communication. He covers how automation has lowered the barrier to entry for unskilled attackers and reduced ransomware dwell time to a couple of hou...

Few areas of cybersecurity have been reshaped by AI as fast as phishing. In just three years, generative AI has rewritten the economics of the attack, stripping out the red flags security teams have trained users to spot for decades, and pushing attackers into new channels like Microsoft Teams, voice, and video. In this episode, Steve Malone, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at IRONSCALES, joins...

This is a roundup episode pulling together four conversations we recorded at Black Hat USA 2026, each looking at a different piece of the same story: AI is changing what attackers and defenders can do, and most organizations are behind on both fronts. Daniel Blackford, VP and Head of Threat Research at Proofpoint, breaks down why ransomware timelines are collapsing from weeks to hours, and walks t...

Recorded live on the final day of Black Hat 2026, this episode of the Expert Insights Podcast features Todd Moore, global VP and GM of data security products at Thales. In the episode, he discusses why the post-quantum era has stopped being a future problem, and needs to be on your agenda today. Todd explains why 2029 matters: it’s the point at which researchers expect a crypto-relevant quantum co...

Ahead of Black Hat 2026, Joel Witts, Content Director at Expert Insights, talks with Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder and CEO of BlackCloak, about the growing risk facing corporate executives outside the four walls of the company, in their homes, personal accounts and family lives. Pierson is a former CISO, chief privacy officer, and longtime Department of Homeland Security advisor who founded BlackCloa...

Ahead of Black Hat 2026, Joel Witts, Content Director at Expert Insights, talks with Marc Olesen, CEO of Cofense, about how AI is reshaping the phishing threat landscape and what it takes to defend against it. Olesen joined Cofense in January 2025, bringing over 30 years of technology leadership from roles including CEO at TokenEx, President and CEO at Sift, and senior leadership positions at Splu...

In the second part of our Zscaler’s Zenith Live coverage, we’re speaking with two more industry experts. Up first is Deepen Desai, EVP and Chief Security Officer at Zscaler, who walks us through the ThreatLabz 2026 Phishing and Initial Access Report, highlighting the key trends that you need to be aware of. That’s followed by Martyn Ditchburn, CTO in residence at Zscaler. He addresses the threat l...

In this episode of the Expert Insights Podcast, recorded at Zscaler’s Zenith Live conference in Vienna, we’re joined by two experts for conversations on AI security and post-quantum cryptography. First, Swamy Kocherlakota, Executive Vice President, Agentic AI Startup at Zscaler, breaks down the AI security incidents enterprises are dealing with right now. He explains why zero trust is the right ar...

Phishing attacks are more convincing, more frequent, and harder to detect than ever. AI has lowered the barrier to entry for attackers, while raising the stakes for every organization. In this episode, Expert Insights speaks with David Badanes, Human Risk Leader at Hoxhunt, about the findings from Hoxhunt’s 2026 Phishing Trends Report and what they mean for security teams trying to keep pace with...

Last week, our team was on the ground at RSAC 2026, speaking with CISOs, security leaders, and innovators on the frontlines of AI-driven change. In this episode, we share insights from 8 leaders at the conference, from the rise of shadow AI and autonomous agents to the reality that humans can’t keep up with machine-speed threats. We explore how phishing is evolving, why agents are becoming a new i...

SOC teams are overwhelmed by alerts and losing analysts to burnout. Better integration and smarter automation are changing that. In this episode, Expert Insights speaks with Chris Jacob, Field CISO at Securonix and former founding executive at ThreatQuotient, about how AI is changing security operations. In this episode: * Why identity management is now the top attack vector * How agentic AI can r...

Twenty-four million secrets were leaked via GitHub in a single year. As organizations scale across multiple clouds, microservices, and AI workflows, managing API keys, tokens, and credentials is becoming harder to control. In this episode, Expert Insights speaks with Amber Britton, CEO of Doppler , about why secrets sprawl is one of the most underestimated risks in cybersecurity today. In this epi...

Over the past week, our Reporter, Mirren McDade has been in Nashville attending OpenText World. Over the week she attended a series of keynotes, interviewed leading minds, and connected with cybersecurity innovators from across the world. In this episode, we’ve included two of the interviews that Mirren conducted during the week. The first is from Scott Richards, SVP, AI & Discovery, and Cybersecu...

Many founders build a single company, take their exit, and step back. Mike Walters has done it twice. First with Netwrix, and now with Action1, Walters has a track record of building highly successful cybersecurity companies, laser focused on a specific niche. What set Walters on this path? It began with writing software. An early appreciation of scale and the realization that writing code alone c...

What if vibe coding — the wave of developers using AI assistants to generate code — could actually lead to better security outcomes ? Today, host Joel Witts is joined by Manoj Nair, Chief Innovation Officer at Snyk , to explore how AI is transforming the way we build and secure software. From his early work pioneering data leakage prevention at RSA, through to leading cloud startups, and now drivi...

This year, we have seen the two biggest cybersecurity acquisitions ever made: Google Cloud’s acquisition of Wiz, for $32bn USD, and Palo Alto Networks’ $25bn deal to acquire CyberArk. And it’s only August! Cybersecurity investment continues to grow at a staggering pace. According to Return On Security , cybersecurity funding is up 202% in Q2/3 2025 compared to the same period last year, with M&A d...

What happens when criminals on keyboards thousands of miles away can hold a hospital hostage, or take down the critical systems a nation relies on? In this conversation, Cynthia Kaiser , a former FBI Deputy Assistant Director and now SVP Ransomware Research Center at Halcyon, shares her journey into the cybersecurity field, detailing her experiences in both government and industry. She discusses t...

In this episode of the Expert Insights podcast, Joel Witts sits down with Eoin Keary, the CEO and Founder at EdgeScan, to explore the limits of traditional pentesting, how to defend against new and unknown attacks, and why businesses should be thinking about risk-prioritized vulnerability intelligence. About Expert Insights: Expert Insights saves you time and hassle by rigorously analyzing cyberse...

Browser-based threats are evolving. While it’s still important for security teams to protect their organizations against issues like data leakage, risky browser extensions, and identity threats, they also need to tackle a new challenge: browser-based AI. To explore this issue, we caught up with Or Eshed, CEO and Co-Founder at LayerX Security, on the Expert Insights Podcast. Over the last two years...

In this episode of the Expert Insights podcast, Joel Witts sits down with Gerasim Hovhannisyan, the co-founder of EasyDMARC. Gerasim shares his journey into the DMARC space, inspired by a personal experience with a phishing attack. We delve into the importance of DMARC for email security, the challenges organizations face in implementing it, and the global push towards its adoption. About Expert I...

Suresh Katukam is the Co-founder and CPO of Nile, a platform that monitors network traffic using AI. In this conversation, Suresh uses his wealth of experience to explain the significance of network security within today’s ever-evolving context. Nile’s solution uses behavioral analysis to understand what’s going on at every point within a network, ensuring that responses are targeted and effective...

Sounil Yu is Knostic’s Chief AI Security Officer, in addition to being a speaker, author, advisor, and board member. His 30+ years in security have shaped his unique perspective on AI safety and organizational privacy. In this episode, Sounil shares his journey from roles at Bank of America and venture capital to his current mission at Knostic. About Expert Insights: Expert Insights saves you time...

Sandy Kronenberg is the CEO and Founder of Netarx, a company that specializes in real-time detection of deepfake and social engineering threats via enterprise video, voice, and email. His background in IT services and venture capital led to him founding the company. In this episode, Sandy and Joel Witts discuss the development of the FLIRP, a tool designed to prevent social engineering attacks acr...

Ric Smith, President of Product, Technology, and Operations at SentinelOne, joins Expert Insights to discuss the rise of AI in cybersecurity, with a focus on their AI engine, Athena. He explores the challenges security teams face, the importance of trust in automation, and the creative opportunities AI unlocks. The conversation highlights the need to strike a balance between automation and human o...