The ITSPmagazine Podcast

Vincent Stoffer , Field Chief Technology Officer at Corelight , shares his predictions for 2026 and what security teams should prepare for in the coming year. With nearly a decade at Corelight and a background in network and security engineering, Stoffer brings a unique perspective on where the industry is heading. The conversation explores the emergence of the agentic SOC, where AI agents work al...

The renewable energy sector faces a critical cybersecurity gap. As wind farms, solar installations, and battery energy storage systems proliferate across the globe, they create a decentralized network of digitally controlled assets that remain largely unprotected. Rafael Narezzi , Co-Founder and CEO of Cyber Energia , brings more than two decades of technology leadership experience to address this...

Giannina the Cat   Giannina the cat lived in a house with a garden. The garden wall bordered a park where children gathered to play. The town was small but charming — from the windowsills of the houses, pots of geraniums and petunias tumbled down like colorful cascades.   Her owner, Signora Mafalda, often took her around the town center. All the children knew her, and whenever they spotted her, th...

CES 2026 Just Showed Us the Future. It's More Practical Than You Think. CES has always been part crystal ball, part carnival. But something shifted this year. I caught up with Brian Comiskey—Senior Director of Innovation and Trends at CTA and a futurist by trade—days after 148,000 people walked the Las Vegas floor. What he described wasn't the usual parade of flashy prototypes destined for tech gr...

Show Notes Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Margaret Glaspy joins Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli for a Music Evolves conversation recorded in the context of the NAMM Show and the She Rocks Awards, where Glaspy is recognized as a 2026 honoree. The discussion centers on how artists develop a voice, how creative practice sustains a career, and why music functions as a form of public service rather...

Show Notes Bass rarely leads the conversation about music innovation, yet it quietly shapes how songs move, how bands connect, and how audiences feel rhythm in their bodies. In this episode of Music Evolves , hosts Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli explore that idea with Jon D’Auria , Editor in Chief of Bass Magazine , through the lens of community, technology, and cultural relevance. D’Auria descri...

In this Brand Highlight, Ivan Milenkovic , Vice President, Cyber Risk Technology at Qualys , joins host Sean Martin to discuss how security leaders can break free from the whack-a-mole cycle of vulnerability management. With more than 48,000 vulnerabilities disclosed in 2025 alone and the average enterprise juggling 76 different security consoles, Milenkovic argues that the old methods of counting...

LEOPOLDO'S SECRET LIBRARY Some people are strange — they like to spend their evenings reading books. Others are even stranger — they believe in the magic found between pages, in fantastical adventures, in stories of impossible love, in ghosts that walk among the living, and they think that everything that doesn't exist — maybe does after all. In short, this story is for those who are a little stra...

Dave Tourjé: You Have to Destroy What You Create to Become Free When Dave Tourjé was two years old, he had a box of wooden blocks. Every day he'd dump them on the floor, stack them into towers of color, admire what he built—then destroy it and start over. That ritual never stopped. Tourjé is a painter, a punk rock musician, a skateboarder, and a founding member of the California Locos—a collective...

As AI makes it easier for attackers to launch account takeover campaigns at scale, organizations face mounting pressure to protect their customers and their brand. Israel Mazin , Co-Founder and CEO of Memcyco , joins the conversation to discuss how real-time detection and protection capabilities are changing the game. Memcyco is built on four products within a unified platform, each designed to de...

Jensen Huang Just Won IEEE's Highest Honor. The Reason Tells Us Everything About Where Tech Is Headed. IEEE announced Jensen Huang as its 2026 Medal of Honor recipient at CES this week. The NVIDIA founder joins a lineage stretching back to 1917—over a century of recognizing people who didn't just advance technology, but advanced humanity through technology. That distinction matters more than ever....

In this Brand Highlight, we talk with Denny LeCompte , CEO and Co-Founder of Portnox , about how identity and access control are changing as AI-driven agents and synthetic identities become active participants inside enterprise environments. Passwords still sit at the root of many security failures, which is why the conversation starts with the fundamentals: controlling who can access data, from w...

Across dozens of conversations centered on the CISO experience, one reality keeps surfacing: the role no longer exists to protect systems in isolation. It exists to protect the business itself. Today’s CISO operates at the intersection of operational risk, executive decision-making, and organizational trust. The responsibility is not just to identify threats, but to help leadership understand whic...

Show Notes Music placement has quietly become one of the most powerful engines shaping how audiences discover new artists. In this episode of Music Evolves , host Sean Martin speaks with Chris SD, music producer and founder focused on connecting independent songwriters with film, television, and media opportunities, about how music moves from personal creation into shared cultural moments. The con...

Across 152 conversations this year, a set of recurring patterns kept surfacing, regardless of whether the discussion focused on application security, software supply chain risk, AI systems, or creative work. The industries varied. The roles varied. The challenges did not. One theme rises above the rest: visibility remains the foundation of everything else, yet organizations continue to accept blin...

Show Notes Music careers are often discussed through the lens of performance, technology, or commercial success. Less visible is the connective tissue that sustains those careers: community, advocacy, and long-term support systems. In this episode of Music Evolves: Sonic Frontiers, the conversation centers on how structured networks and intentional recognition shape opportunity across the music in...

Title: The Right Model for the Right Security Task | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Michael Roytman, Co-Founder and CTO of Empirical Security In this Brand Highlight conversation, Michael Roytman , Co-Founder and CTO of Empirical Security , joins Sean Martin to discuss why choosing the right AI model for the right task is essential for effective cybersecurity. Michael Roytman explains how Emp...

Where has Santa Claus gone? Once upon a time there was Santa Claus's Village — but Santa Claus wasn't there. He had been missing for days and days… actually for months. Who would prepare and deliver gifts to the children as they did every year? That part of the North Pole which was usually very busy had become strangely silent — not an Elf could be seen around, no sounds of bells, the sleighs were...

As organizations race to adopt AI, many discover an uncomfortable truth: ambition often outpaces readiness. In this episode of the ITSPmagazine Brand Story Podcast, host Sean Martin speaks with Julian Hamood, Founder and Chief Visionary Officer at TrustedTech, about what it really takes to operationalize AI without amplifying risk, chaos, or misinformation. Julian shares that most organizations ar...

As NAMM approaches its 125th year, the conversation around The NAMM Show 2026 centers less on products alone and more on the people, relationships, and creative energy that sustain the music industry. In this episode, John Mlynczak, President and CEO of NAMM, joins Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli to frame the upcoming show as a moment shaped by resilience, adaptation, and shared purpose. Mlynczak...

⬥ EPISODE NOTES ⬥ Modern application development depends on open source packages moving at extraordinary speed. Paul McCarty, Offensive Security Specialist focused on software supply chain threats, explains why that speed has quietly reshaped risk across development pipelines, developer laptops, and CI environments. JavaScript dominates modern software delivery, and the npm registry has become the...

Risk has always been part of doing business. What has changed is its scale, speed, and interconnected nature. In this episode, Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli are joined by Megha Kumar, Chief Product Officer and Head of Geopolitical Risk at CyXcel, to explore how organizations can think more clearly about digital risk without becoming paralyzed by complexity. Kumar shares how digital resilience is...

____________Guests: Suzy Pallett President, Black Hat. Cybersecurity. On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzy-pallett-60710132/ The Cybersecurity Community Finds Its Footing in Uncertain Times There is something almost paradoxical about the cybersecurity industry. It exists because of threats, yet it thrives on trust. It deals in technical complexity, yet its beating heart is fundamentally h...

Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Pen Densham on Writing, Cinematography, Photography, Creativity and the Freedom of Breaking the Rules  There's a particular kind of magic that happens when a storyteller stops trying to please the market and starts listening to their soul. Pen Densham knows this better than most—he's lived it across three different mediums, each time learning to let go a little more.   De...

⬥ EPISODE NOTES ⬥ Artificial intelligence is reshaping how public health organizations manage data, interpret trends, and support decision-making. In this episode, Sean Martin talks with Jim St. Clair, Vice President of Public Health Systems at a major public health research institute, Altarum, about what AI adoption really looks like across federal, state, and local agencies. Public health contin...