The Business of Cybersecurity

What happens when artificial intelligence gives cybercriminals the ability to identify, map, and exploit critical infrastructure faster than defenders can respond? For the organizations responsible for power grids, manufacturing plants, water utilities, and data centers, that question is no longer hypothetical. In this episode of The Business of Cybersecurity, I welcome Almog Apirion, CEO and Co-F...

What happens when anyone with a simple AI prompt can launch a sophisticated cyberattack? In this episode of The Business of Cybersecurity, I sit down with Darren Anstee, CTO for Security at NETSCOUT, to discuss the findings from the company's latest Threat Intelligence Report and why the cybersecurity landscape is changing faster than many organizations can respond. We explore how conversational A...

What happens when the technology designed to make us more productive quietly becomes one of the biggest security risks inside the enterprise? In this episode of The Business of Cybersecurity, I sit down with Leslie Nielsen, CISO at Mimecast, to discuss the growing tension between AI adoption and cybersecurity, and why many organizations may be exposing sensitive information faster than they realiz...

What happens when your biggest cybersecurity risk isn't inside your organization at all, but somewhere deep within your supply chain? In this episode of The Business of Cybersecurity, I sit down with Ben Gibbins, Head of Financial Services and Insurance at Orange Cyberdefense UK, to discuss the Financial Conduct Authority's new cyber incident and third-party reporting requirements and what they me...

How do you defend trust in a world where AI can imitate voices, generate highly convincing phishing attacks, and automate fraud at a scale humans can barely keep up with? In this episode of Business of Cybersecurity, I sit down with Mary Ann Miller from Prove to discuss how AI is reshaping fraud, identity, and cybersecurity in ways many organizations are still struggling to understand fully. With...

What happens when the biggest cybersecurity weakness inside your organization isn’t your infrastructure, but the people using it every day? In this episode of Business of Cybersecurity, I speak with David Cottingham, president of rf IDEAS, about why identity has become one of the most targeted attack surfaces in modern business. From phishing attacks powered by AI to the growing risks tied to comp...

What happens when ransomware stops being treated as a cybersecurity problem and starts being viewed as a direct threat to business survival? In this episode of Business of Cybersecurity, I sat down with Jim McGann, CMO at Index Engines, to unpack why 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most dangerous years yet for organizations facing increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. Jim shared how ransomw...

What happens when one of the world’s most experienced cybersecurity educators looks at the future of AI and quietly admits that the internet may never be this secure again? In this episode of Business of Cybersecurity, I sat down with IEEE member and cybersecurity professor Kevin Curran for a conversation that moved far beyond theory and into the real-world risks, opportunities, and uncomfortable...

What happens when cyber resilience shifts from an IT concern to something that directly impacts revenue, operations, and even national stability? In this episode of The Business of Cybersecurity, I sit down with Mark Molyneux, Field CTO for Northern Europe at Commvault, to break down the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill and what it really means for organizations trying to stay ahead of incr...

What if the real problem with cybersecurity today is not the threats we see, but the way we prove who we are online? In this episode of the Business of Cybersecurity podcast, I sat down with Gonzalo Alonso, CEO of Ditto, to explore why digital identity has quietly become one of the most important and misunderstood challenges in our digital economy. Drawing on his experience at Microsoft, Google, a...

How prepared are businesses for a world where AI agents are quietly becoming some of the most powerful users inside their systems? In this episode of Business of Cybersecurity, I sit down with Uri Haramati, CEO and co-founder of Torii, to unpack a shift that is happening faster than most organizations can keep up with. AI is no longer sitting on the sidelines as a productivity tool. It is now deep...

What happens when AI makes your security teams faster, but leaves the same people carrying all the risk? In this episode of Business of Cybersecurity, I sit down with Shan Kulkarni, CEO of Nullify, to discuss a growing tension that many security leaders are already feeling. AI is helping developers ship code faster than ever. Still, for product security teams, that speed often creates even more al...

What if the biggest blind spot in cybersecurity today is the place where most work actually happens, the browser? In this episode of the Business of Cybersecurity podcast, I sat down with Adam Bateman, co-founder and CEO of Push Security, to explore a growing shift in how modern attacks are carried out and why traditional defenses are increasingly struggling to keep up. Adam brings a rare perspect...

What really determines whether a company survives a cyberattack, the sophistication of the attacker or how well the organization prepared before the breach ever happened? In this episode of Business of Cybersecurity, I sat down with Andrew Carr, Managing Director at Booz Allen Hamilton and leader of the firm’s Commercial Threat Detection and Response practice. Andrew has spent nearly two decades w...

What happens when the backup you trusted turns out to be anything but immutable? In this episode of Business of Cybersecurity, I sit down with Anthony Cusimano from Object First to unpack one of the most misunderstood words in cyber resilience right now: immutability. It is a term that appears in countless vendor pitches and product pages, but as Anthony explains, the reality behind those claims c...

For two decades, the mantra in technology has been simple: connect everything. More APIs, more integrations, more remote access, more cloud. But what happens when that hyper-connectivity becomes the very thing that amplifies risk? In this episode of Business of Cybersecurity, I sit down with Steven Brodie, Chief Revenue Officer at Goldilock Secure, a NATO-backed cybersecurity firm challenging the...

How prepared are enterprises and government agencies for the next wave of AI-driven risk? I sit down with Tim Freestone, Chief Strategy Officer at Kiteworks, to unpack the findings from the Kiteworks 2026 Data Security & Compliance Risk Forecast and what it reveals about the true state of data resilience today. As AI accelerates business processes and agentic systems gain more autonomy, Tim ar...

How can cybersecurity stop being treated as a tax on growth and start becoming something founders actually lean on to win trust, customers, and long-term advantage? In this episode of Business of Cybersecurity, I reconnect with Taylor Hersom , Founder and CEO of Eden Data , for a wide-ranging and honest conversation about what security really looks like in an AI-first world. Taylor has built his c...

What does the UK’s new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill actually mean for mid-sized businesses that sit quietly inside complex supply chains, often assuming the rules are aimed at someone else? In this episode of Business of Cybersecurity, I sit down with Jason Revill, Global Security Practice Technology Lead at Avanade, to unpack why this legislation represents a genuine shift in how cyber risk...

How do you protect factory floors, utilities, and critical infrastructure when IT and OT finally run on the same nervous system? That is the challenge at the heart of my latest conversation with John Walsh, Field CTO at IGEL Technology, recorded live at the IGEL Now and Next event in Frankfurt. Back in March in Miami, John and I talked about zero trust as an ecosystem rather than a product, a way...

What does business continuity really mean when thousands of devices across a hospital or enterprise go dark? In this episode, Jason Mafera, Chief Technology Officer for Healthcare at IGEL, joins me at the Now and Next event in Frankfurt to explore why endpoint resilience has become one of the most overlooked priorities in cybersecurity. Jason explains why hospitals and healthcare providers have ze...

In today’s digital battlefield, prevention is no longer enough. Firewalls and endpoint protection might keep the doors locked, but attackers are slipping in through the windows. In this episode of Tech Talks Daily , I sit down with Brian Dye , CEO of Corelight , to explore how the cybersecurity game has changed and why network detection and response (NDR) has become the new frontline of digital de...

Experian’s Chief Product Officer for Identity and Fraud in the UK and Ireland, Paul Weathersby, joins me to unpack how criminals are using generative tools to fabricate documents, clone voices, perfect phishing at scale, and stitch together synthetic identities. We dig into the sharp rise in SIM swap attacks, why eSIM provisioning can accelerate takeovers, and how coordinated crews now treat fraud...

Qualys CEO Sumedh Thakar joins me to unpack what cyber risk management really looks like when budgets are tight, signals are noisy, and AI is changing the game. Sumedh’s journey started in Pune with parents who prized education above everything. He arrived in the US with one hundred dollars, joined Qualys as one of its first software engineers, and two decades later is leading a global platform th...

What happens when there are 100 machine identities for every human one in your organisation? This is not a prediction for the future. It is the world we are already operating in, and the implications are profound. In this episode of Business of Cybersecurity, I speak with David Higgins, Senior Director at CyberArk, about how AI agents, autonomous systems, and the sheer scale of machine credentials...