The Security Strategist

As demand for artificial intelligence (AI) increases and investment rises, AI is being used to spot threats more quickly. In the recent episode of The Security Strategist podcast , host Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest, an author, and a trusted advisor to vendors, VCs and private Equity Firms, conversed with Sandeep Kamble, Founder and CTO at SecureLayer7 . Kamble explained h...

Walk the floor of any security conference, and you'll hear the same story that AI is transforming threat detection, closing the vulnerability gap, and redefining cyber defence. But the data suggests security professionals aren't buying into the hype as much as vendors might expect. According to Oliver Spence , CEO of Cybaverse and a former Royal Marine, the cybersecurity industry has a marketing p...

Security operations centres have always been a numbers game with too many alerts, few analysts, and never enough hours in a shift. But something has changed. The arrival of AI models capable of identifying vulnerabilities and generating working exploits at machine speed has quietly shifted the terms of engagement between attackers and defenders. In this episode of the Security Strategist podcast ,...

Podcast: The Security Strategist Guest: Nitay Milner, Co-Founder & CEO at ORION Security Host: Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT Harvest, Author, and Advisor to Vendors, VCs, and Private Equity Firms Cybersecurity is evolving every second, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) has become a key focus for enterprises seeking to protect sensitive data. However, traditional DLP systems often...

Artificial intelligence has moved well beyond the chatbot era. The systems being deployed today don't just respond to questions; they plan, decide, and act. In this episode of the Security Strategist , host Trisha Pillay sits down with Kevin Curran , Professor of Cybersecurity at Ulster University and IEEE senior member , to unpack what this shift means for organisations, security teams, and the p...

The moment an organisation's board starts asking how to prepare for autonomous AI attacks, the conversation has already shifted. What used to be a theoretical briefing topic is now a line item in risk registers and a direct question landing on CISOs' desks from the C-suite. Shachar Hirshberg and Dan Shiebler , co-founders of Artemis Security , an AI-Native Protection Platform for security operatio...

Most organisations believe they have a solid grip on their security posture. They invest in tools, run penetration tests, and build out security teams. Yet when a breach happens, the entry point is often an asset no one was monitoring, something unknown, unmanaged, and fully exposed. That gap between perceived security and actual exposure is the core challenge Rob Gurzeev has spent his career tryi...

Podcast: The Security Strategist Guest: Jasson Casey, CEO & Co-Founder, Beyond Identity Analyst: Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest In an enterprise technology market that’s saturated with AI copilots and coding agents, most enterprise security strategies are already outdated. On the recent episode of The Security Strategist podcast, analyst Richard Stiennon, Co-Founder and...

Podcast: The Security Strategist Guest: Garrett Hamilton, CEO , Reach Security , and Jay Wilson, CIO & CISO, Insurity Host: Shubhangi Dua, Podcast Producer and B2B Tech Journalist , EM360Tech There’s a growing disconnect at the core of enterprise cybersecurity, and most enterprise leadership teams don’t recognise it yet. With budgets increasing, tools improving more than ever, and AI quickly b...

Podcast: The Security Strategist podcast Guest: Eric Schwake, Director of Cybersecurity Strategy, Salt Security Host: Shubhangi Dua, Podcast Producer and B2B Tech Journalist Adopting enterprise AI is often seen as a productivity boost. However, a subtler change is happening behind the scenes, and security leaders are still trying to understand it. Enterprises now not only optimise AI tools but are...

Policy is the backbone of every effective cybersecurity framework. It defines how an organisation protects its data, governs access to critical resources, and dictates the rules that every firewall, endpoint, and identity system must enforce. Yet for most organisations, policy management is the one discipline they consistently get wrong. In this episode of  The Security Strategist , Chief Res...

In the digital age, securing sensitive business information has never been more critical. Microsoft 365 has become the backbone of operations for organisations worldwide, and with that centrality comes an expanding attack surface that many security teams are only beginning to fully understand.  In a recent episode of the  Security Strategist  podcast, host  Richard Stiennon &nb...

Financial crime is no longer a peripheral concern for banks and fintechs; it is a defining operational challenge. The pressure to grow transaction volumes, onboard customers quickly, and keep pace with increasingly sophisticated fraud actors has placed finance and compliance teams at the very heart of business strategy. For many institutions, the question is no longer how to use artificial intelli...

Podcast: The Security Strategist Guest: Rick Wagner, Senior Director, Product Management at SailPoint Analyst: Jonathan Care, Lead Analyst, KuppingerCole The identity security market is crowded, but a significant change is occurring below the surface. In a recent episode of The Security Strategist podcast, host Jonathan Care, Lead Analyst at KuppingerCole, sat down with Rick Wagner, Sr. Director P...

Over 95 per cent of leaders now say identity security is core to their strategy. A decade ago, this wasn’t even part of the conversation. The awareness is there, but awareness alone isn’t enough. Many organisations feel secure, yet the metrics they track often tell a different story.  In this episode of  Security Strategist , EM360Tech’s  Trisha Pillay  sits down with  Cra...

Podcast series: The Security Strategist Guest: Amit Megiddo, CEO and Co-Founder, Native Host: Richard Stiennon, Chief Analyst Researcher at IT-Harvest In the recent episode of The Security Strategist Podcast , Amit Megiddo, CEO and Co-Founder, Native, joins host Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest, to discuss a growing challenge in enterprise cloud security. Enterprises are inve...

If you've ever tried to navigate the FedRAMP authorization process, you already know it's slow, expensive, and tedious when it comes to the documentation. For cloud service providers (CSPs) hoping to sell to the federal government, it has long been one of the biggest barriers to entry. That’s now changing. FedRAMP 20x is the most significant modernization of the Federal Risk and Authorization Mana...

Keeping your organisation’s systems secure can feel like an endless battle. Patch management and vulnerability mitigation are often seen as tedious tasks, but they form the backbone of effective cybersecurity. In this episode of the  Security Strategist  podcast, host  Richard Stiennon  and  Mike Walters , co-founder of Action1, break down why patching remains challenging...

The way organizations access and use enterprise data has fundamentally changed. Knowledge workers now operate in browser-based environments, relying heavily on SaaS applications and increasingly experimenting with AI-powered tools to boost productivity. In the Security Strategist podcast,  Chris Steffen , Vice President of Research at  Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) , spoke with&...

Podcast Series: The Security Strategist Host: Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest Guest: Dr Chris Pierson, Founder and CEO of BlackCloak There has always been a boundary in the enterprise technology corporate network. However, that boundary has been fading for a while, and now it may have completely vanished. In the recent conversation on The Security Strategist podcast , cybers...

There is a moment in every investigation where time becomes the deciding factor. Not capability, not intent, but time. In modern counter-terrorism, that moment arrives faster than ever because the evidence is no longer waiting to be found. It already exists, scattered across devices, platforms, and networks, growing silently in volume. The question is no longer whether the data is there. It’s whet...

AI isn’t introducing entirely new cyber threats, but it is changing how easily they can be executed, and by whom. In this episode of  Security Strategist ,   EM360Tech  host  Trisha Pillay  speaks with  Darren Anstee , Chief Technology Officer for Security at  NETSCOUT , about how conversational AI is lowering the barrier to entry for cyberattacks.  Drawing...

Many organisations assume that moving to the cloud means much of their security posture is handled automatically. But that assumption can create blind spots. In the latest episode of the Security Strategist Podcast, Trisha Pillay from EM360Tech speaks with Rob Edmondson , Senior Director of Product Marketing at CoreView , about cyber resilience in Microsoft 365 environments and what tenant hardeni...

Podcast: The Security Strategist Host: Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest Guest: Michael Kennedy , Ostra Security Founder For leaders in enterprise technology, the pressure to show measurable cybersecurity outcomes has never been greater. Boards are asking tougher questions, attackers are moving faster, and conventional security awareness metrics aren’t telling the whole story....

Podcast: The Security Strategist Host: Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest Guest: Nathan Rollings, CISO at Zafran The cybersecurity enterprise space has been transforming for years, going beyond traditional vulnerability management. According to Nathan Rollings, CISO at Zafran, the next shift is already underway in the B2B Enterprise technology space. It is being driven by autom...