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In the first weeks of March, Omar Santos got early access to the model that became Anthropic’s Mythos. About an hour of testing was enough to convince him cybersecurity had changed for good. Omar, a Distinguished Engineer in AI Security Engineering at Cisco and co-chair of the Coalition for Secure AI, says his bigger worry is how fast everyone else is catching up. Open weight models are closing in...

Most boards approved AI for the productivity gains, and far fewer asked what it would expose. Dean Saunders says conversations with large organisations usually start with models and end up on data: where it lives, who can reach it, and how quickly an agent can move it once staff have gone home. KB and Dean talk about shadow AI, approved tools used on personal accounts, and trusted apps that quietl...

Dr. Ahana Datta Fasel has spent years mapping 30 years of China’s cyber operations, and she opens by dismantling the story most of us have absorbed. China isn’t only hunting our secrets. Sometimes it wants to know what we know about them, sometimes it’s watching its own diaspora, and often the intent behind an operation is genuinely hard to read. She walks KB through why cyber has become inseparab...

Shane Buckley, CEO of Gigamon, has watched the AI spending story turn in months. Companies that treated token consumption as a badge of honour are now blowing through their AI budget by day three of the month, with the bill hitting earnings reports and boardrooms. He explains why more tools never meant more security, why he expects rising data centre costs to push token prices up, and why augmenta...

Reece takes us behind the scenes of the Instructure incident, where his team fielded 65 instructions in 48 hours, and explains how a catastrophic cyber event actually gets run across insurers, government and thousands of schools at once. KB & Reece get into the hidden cost almost no one budgets for, business interruption, and what the JLR and Change Healthcare cases reveal about how dependent...

When Mythos hit in April, the security world split between panic and hype. Sumedh Thakar, President and CEO of Qualys, joins KB to make the calmer case that Mythos accelerated an old threat rather than inventing one. They get into why zero-day vulnerabilities now need zero-day remediation, the misread that Mythos runs on your own code while your vendors use it too, the board conversation it reopen...

The tech running hospitals, power grids and government services often still works. Sarah Sloan, Cisco’s Head of Cybersecurity Policy for APAC, joins KB to explain why that’s the problem, not the reassurance it sounds like. Drawing on a new ASPI report Cisco funded, “Past its use-by-date,” they get into why so much end-of-life tech is still in place (usually budgets and skills, not negligence), how...

KB sits down with Quinton Anderson, founder of Aigentsphere, to challenge one of the most repeated lines in AI governance: that a human in the loop keeps you safe. His view is that asking people to approve task after task just trains them to say yes. They get into why you should never trust an agent but can trust the system around it, why an agent can’t be fully tested before it goes live, and why...

Karissa Breen sits down with Gijo Varghese, Chief Security Officer at OT cyber security firm Secolve, to unpack an uncomfortable trade-off: the same connectivity and AI making power, water and transport smarter are also making them easier to break. Gijo explains how IT and OT convergence has widened the attack surface, why decades-old control systems were never built to touch the internet, and how...

In this episode, KB sits down with Mark Thomas, IT governance and risk veteran, ISACA Hall of Famer and president of Escoute Consulting, to pull apart a problem a lot of boards haven’t clocked yet – the gap between owning an AI policy and being able to prove it controls anything. They get into the Air Canada chatbot case and what it says about accountability, why the honest board test is “would an...

Most security vendors are shipping AI that treats capability as authority. Sean Duca thinks that’s the mistake customers are already paying for. Back on KBKast for a third time, now as co-founder and CEO of getsoteria.ai , Sean makes the case that confidence and permission are two separate gates, and that an autonomous SOC needs both before it touches anything. He walks Karissa through governed au...

The old security math is broken. Teams used to get roughly 60 days between a vulnerability going public and attackers using it. Harman Kaur, Tanium’s CTO, explains why that number has flipped to negative, and what it means when the patch you need does not exist yet. This conversation is about the difference between automation and transformation. Running the same broken process faster is not progre...

Bradon Rogers, Chief Customer Officer at Island, the company that created the enterprise browser category in 2020, joins KB to unpack why the industry spent two decades bolting security around the browser instead of building it in. They dig into whether organisations are solving complexity or just relocating it, why VPNs and VDI survived so long when everybody hated them, and Bradon’s blunt read o...

KB is on the ground at SAP Sapphire 2026 in Orlando, where AI has moved beyond experimentation and into the center of enterprise decision making. In this KB On The Go episode, Maura Hameroff (CMO, Cloud ERP Private and RISE with SAP) makes the case that modernizing your core is a business transformation decision rather than a technical upgrade, and that companies still running on legacy systems ca...

In this episode, Anna Wheeler, CEO of SSAW LLC, joins KB as she explains why so many cyber teams are stuck in event-driven strategy while calling it the real thing, why the doers can’t climb out of it because their KPIs won’t let them, and why visionary CEOs keep getting ousted when the board can’t see what they see. Along the way: the CEOs quietly burning more AI tokens than anyone else in their...

Recorded at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, where 20,000 operators, engineers and executives gathered at Mandalay Bay to shape the future of networking, AI and cybersecurity. KB sits down with two Cisco leaders confronting the problems AI is creating and the infrastructure built to outlast them. Tom Gillis, SVP and GM of Cisco’s Infrastructure and Security Group, explains why the gap between a vulne...

John leads customer success, presales, and professional services across APAC at Workato and serves as Field CTO for the region. With more than twenty-five years of experience, including roles at Oracle and TIBCO and as co-founder of Rubicon Red, he focuses on helping enterprises unlock real, lasting value from AI and integration. In this episode of KBKast, John joins KB to unpack why 42% of AI ini...

KB grabs the mic backstage at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos for two conversations that sit on either end of the same problem: how leaders should be thinking about risk in an unstable world, and what it actually looks like when a sector has been living that instability for years. First up, KB sits down with Chris Krebs, former Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The...

KB is on the ground at SAP Sapphire in Orlando, where AI has officially moved beyond experimentation and into the core of enterprise decision making. In two conversations, Marielle Ehrmann (Chief Security, Compliance and Risk Officer, SAP) unpacks why AI governance has entered the boardroom as an accelerator rather than a brake, what separates responsible AI from AI theater, and why the biggest ri...

Mark Jones is Co Founder of MosaicalAI and has spent more than 25 years working across cybersecurity, technology risk, governance and resilience in complex environments where decisions need to be defensible and the cost of getting it wrong is high. His work sits at the intersection of security, business leadership and change. He helps organisations understand risk, build capability in their people...

Recorded at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, where 20,000 operators, engineers and executives gathered at Mandalay Bay to shape the future of networking, AI and cybersecurity. KB sits down with two Cisco security leaders on the front lines of agentic AI. Peter Bailey, SVP and GM of Cisco Security, breaks down why the security frameworks built over the last 20 years weren’t designed for machine-speed...

KB grabs the mic backstage at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos for two conversations that couldn’t look more different on the surface, but end up pointing at the same thing: where cyber threats really come from, and who’s pushing back. First up, KB sits down with Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness, Australia’s National Cybersecurity Coordinator, and Steph Way, Director of the National Office of Cybersecur...

Pete Harteveld was appointed CEO of Exabeam in October 2025 and most recently served as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer.  He has more than two decades of leadership experience having built a reputation for scaling revenue and building high-performing global teams across the cybersecurity and technology sectors. Pete played a pivotal role in uniting Exabeam and LogRhythm in 2024, leveraging his...

KB is on the ground at the ISACA 2026 North American Conference in Las Vegas, this time for the AI conversation that’s reshaping ROI, risk and governance all at once. Sushila Nair, Independent Information Security Consultant, and President of the ISACA Greater Washington D.C. chapter, opens with the AI ROI question everyone keeps circling. She walks through ISACA’s latest AI Pulse research, explai...

As a specialist in networking and software development, Vincent joined the F5 team in France in 2000 as a pre-sales engineer. Having contributed to F5’s growth initially in the French market and South EMEA region, he took on several managerial roles before overseeing from 2018 the EMEA pre-sales teams as the VP of Solutions Engineering for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).  From 2025, Vincen...