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Autonomous AI agents are creating a new attack surface for enterprise security teams, particularly as organizations deploy agents for operational tasks such as customer support automation, data analysis, and incident response. How can we align our Zero Trust initiatives to also address the emerging Agentic AI risks? John Bruggeman, Consulting CISO at CBTS, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss...

Most organizations don't fail because of technology. They fail because decision authority is unclear in the first critical minutes. "Being careful" is often interpreted as waiting for certainty, but that delay creates exposure. How should executives make decisions under pressure? Ann Marie van den Hurk, Founder at Mind The Gap Advisory, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss how executive paral...

With Q-day getting closer, regulatory guidance pushing firms to migrate to quantum security in the next five years, and an extensive remediation backlog waiting to be discovered, security leaders must start their quantum security migration today. Easier said than done. In this Say Easy, Do Hard segment, we discuss the quantum-safe journey using a framework for crypto-agility. In part 1, we define...

Security metrics often fail because they measure activity rather than actual risk, often failing to connect with business impact, making them difficult to explain to boards and executives. How do you build efffective metrics that are actionable, contextual, and valuable? Ben Wilcox, CTO & CISO at ProArch, joins Business Security Weekly to help us speak the language of the board. Ben will cover how...

AI has created a dilemma for security teams. Attackers are using AI to develop exploits to newly disclosed vulnerabilities faster than security teams can patch them. Security teams have not fully leveraged the capabilities of AI to autonomously prevent these attacks. Without a radical change in approach, organizations will be exposed to an exponentially increasing attack surface. How long can your...

With the introduction of Agentic AI, autonomous "everything" is all the rage. But we've been burned by automation in the past. Remember the days of Intrusion Prevention Systems and why we never put them into blocking mode? Automation may be the future of security and IT operations, but the path to autonomous "everything" must be earned. How do you build autonomous capabilities with confidence and...

Most organizations view security as a cost center, a "check-the-box" expense rather than a strategic investment. This mindset leads to chronic underfunding, reactive, panic-driven decision-making, and high staff turnover. It also hampers innovation, strategic initiatives, and customer trust. What if security was viewed as a business enabler, not a cost center? Elyse Gunn, CISO at Nasuni, joins Bus...

The Security Weekly 25 index and the NASDAQ diverge. Funding and acquisitions continue shift to AI. Are security stocks out of favor? Netskope enters the index, but does not replace CyberArk, as Thoma Bravo buys Verint. We'll dig into all of this and more! The index is now made up of the following 25 stocks: SAIL Sailpoint Inc PANW Palo Alto Networks Inc CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd...

Quantum security has gone from being a theoretical idea filed away for some unknown future date to an urgent requirement driven by quantum computing advances and government and industry guidance. The thought of nation-state adversaries with a quantum computer that can conduct harvest-now-decrypt later attacks and forge digital signatures makes the threat more real than ever to executives, who have...

For decades, leadership was judged by outputs such as profit, speed, and results. But the real competitive advantage now lies beneath the surface of your P&L: Your culture, trust, and psychology driving every decision, including cybersecurity. Hacia Atherton, the author of The Billion Dollar Blind$pot, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the invisible human costs — fear, burnout, disengageme...

The top social engineering attacks involve manipulating human psychology to gain access to sensitive information or systems. The most prevalent methods include various forms of phishing, pretexting, and baiting, which are often used as initial entry points for more complex attacks like business email compromise (BEC) and ransomware deployment. How do you control what users click on? Even with inte...

Key emerging risks include cybersecurity (41%) and Generative AI (Gen AI) (35%), both of which present challenges in skill development and retention. The growing reliance on external providers reflects these gaps. In two years, strategic risk has fallen 10% as technological advancements have shifted auditors' attention away from strategy. So what are the top concerns? Tim Lietz, National Practice...

The three proactive security principles of visibility, prioritization, and remediation have always been the foundation of vulnerability management teams. But these teams face continuous challenges. How do you address these challenges? Erik Nost, Senior Analyst at Forrester, joins Business Security Weekly to break down the six questions that need to be answered for each proactive security principle...

Cyber threats and cyber criminals indiscriminately target the old as well as young regardless of race, creed or origin. Teens and young adults must realize that on the Internet nobody knows you're a rat. How do we keep kids and young adults safe in an era of AI-driven attacks? Tom Arnold, Adjunct Professor, Digital Evidence & Forensics, Cybersecurity Graduate Program at the University of Nevada La...

CISO pressures are on the rise - board expectations, executive alignment, AI, and personal liability - and that's all on top of your normal security pressures. With all these pressures, CISO burnout is on the rise. How do we detect it and help prevent it? Easier said than done. In this Say Easy, Do Hard segment, we tackle the health and wellness of the CISO. In part 1, we discuss the increased pre...

Join Business Security Weekly for a roundtable-style year-in-review. The BSW hosts share the most surprising, inspiring, and humbling moments of 2025 in business security, culture, and personal growth. And a few of us might be dressed for the upcoming holiday season... Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-427

Business Security Weekly is well aware of the cybersecurity hiring challenges. From hiring CISOs to finding the right skills to developing your employees, we cover it weekly in the leadership and communications segment. But this week, our guest interview digs into the global cybersecurity hiring trends. Jim McCoy, CEO at Atlas, joins Business Security Weekly to share his expertise on the global wo...

Organizations rely heavily on Salesforce to manage vasts amounts of sensitive data, but hidden security risks lurk beneath the surface. Misconfigurations, excessive user permissions, and unmonitored third party integrations can expose this data to attackers. How do I secure this data? Justin Hazard, Principal Security Architect at AutoRABIT, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the security c...

While many businesses rely on Microsoft 365, Salesforce and Google Workspace security features, critical blind spots remain—the recent series of high profile SaaS breaches demonstrate this. So what should you do? Mike Puglia, General Manager of Kaseya Labs, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the risks in SaaS applications. In this segment, Mike will explore how bad actors are focusing their...

The Security Weekly 25 index is back near all time highs as the NASDAQ hits another record high. Funding and acquisitions have shifted to AI as the security industry continues to evolve. We also had a new IPO, Netskope. They will replace CyberArk once the Palo Alto Networks acquisition closes, allowing the index to survive another public company acquisition. In the leadership and communications se...

It's a topic we discuss often on Business Security Weekly: CISO Burnout. It's real, but how should you manage it? Dr. Yonesy Núñez, Global Cybersecurity Executive at Chain Bridge Bank and former Managing Director, Chief Cybersecurity Risk Officer, and Chief Information Security Officer at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), joins Business Security Weekly to share his personal insig...

As AI revolutionizes how we work, it has created a new attack surface with new technologies. One of those new technologies is Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP has emerged as the standard for connecting AI to external tools, but its flexibility has created security challenges. How do we secure MCP? Rahul Parwani, Head of Product, Security Solutions at Airia, joins Business Security Weekly to discu...

What's the biggest attack vector for breaches besides all of the human related ones (i.e., social engineering, phishing, compromised credentials, etc.)? You might think vulnerabilities, but it's actually misconfiguration. The top breach attack vectors are stolen or compromised credentials, phishing, and misconfigurations, which often work together. So why is it so hard to properly configure your s...

Organizations that successfully earn and keep the trust of their customers, employees, and partners experience better business outcomes, more engagement, and competitive differentiation. But what does that trust look like and who's responsible for building and maintaining that trust? Jeff Pollard, Vice-President, Principal Analyst on the Security and Risk Team at Forrester Research, joins Business...

As the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report has stated year after year, most breaches start with human error. We've invested a lot in Security Awareness and Training and Phishing solutions, but yet human error is still the top risk. How do we actually reduce human risk? Rinki Sethi, CSO at Upwind Security, and Nicole Jiang, CEO of Fable Security, share why human risk management is the next fr...