This week, Mike Perez, a Director at managed IT and security services provider Ekco chats to us about Digital Loss Prevention (DLP), incident readiness, how they use deepfakes for customer tabletop cybersecurity training exercises and more!

NEWS

Bank of England says JLR's cyberattack contributed to UK's unexpectedly slower GDP growth

Vulnerability management vendor Intruder publishes its 2025 Exposure Management Index

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Oh boy, we had a wide-ranging and detailed discussion this week with Andy Ash (aka "Andy Two"), CISO at Netacea about the role of AI agents and bots in identity management and threat intelligence. How much risk do we trade off against convenience, and how does this affect our security?

NEWS

CISO Burnout – Epidemic, Endemic, or Simply Inevitable?

CrowdStrike releases its 2025 European Threat Landscape Report

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This week, Christina has a great chat with Charles Henderson, EVP & Head of DivisionHex at Coalfire. The discussion covers offensive and defensive security, and managed security services as well as the ins-and-outs of cyber insurance and risk dynamics....

NEWS

MITRE Unveils ATT&CK v18 With Updates to Detections, Mobile, ICS

Cybersecurity Firms See Surge in AI-Powered Attacks Across Africa

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Lots to talk about this week as we dissect the AWS outage, what the implications are for resiliency, and AWS' own advice about how to mitigate dependencies on partitional services - with Sean Deuby, Principal Technologist at Semperis.

NEWS

Amazon fixes huge AWS outage that broke much of the internet – here's what happened

Concerns over UK (and European) reliance on AWS and US services

White Paper: AWS Fault Isolation Boundaries - Global Services

Dutch government takes control of China-owned chip firm

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Big M&A news of the week as we discuss the announcement that LevelBlue will be acquiring Cybereason!

We also have a great discussion about security, website blocking and threat protection services with this week's guest TK Keanini, CTO at DNSFilter.

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Our guest this week is Chaitanya Challa, Product Leader, IBM Data Security & Quantum Safe.

Having just released the IBM Guardium Cryptography Manager, Chaitanya gives us some great insights into what it's like to create and develop a new software product - involving 100 people over 6 months - including the many time zones involved and the lack of sleep that entailed!

NEWS

Google DeepMind’s New AI Agent Finds and Fixes Vulnerabilities

Despite More CVEs, Cyber Insurers Aren't Altering Policies

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Lots to discuss this week!

We find out about what's happening in the world of AI, Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) with Danny Howett, Technical Director at CyXCel.

NEWS

M&A: CyberBit Acquires RangeForce to Create Combined Cyber Range Platform

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Prioritizing Identity to Safeguard Critical Infrastructure

New AI term of the week – Workslop: In an article for the Harvard Business Review, a team of researchers coined the new term for “AI-generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task… The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver.”

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In this episode we have an in-depth chat with Kyle Wickert, Field CTO at AlgoSec about Cloud 2.0 / Network 2.0 and what his customers are saying to him about the use of AI/AI Agents, policy management, application recertification and much more!

No News this week but Christina talks to us about her impressions of Lumen Technologies, following her attendance at last week's Analyst Summit.

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