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  • The federal government's most underrated cybersecurity tool

    The federal government's most underrated cybersecurity tool
    Apr 16 2026
    In this episode of Safe Mode, we sit down with Philip George, Executive Technical Strategist at Merlin Group to talk about the real challenges federal agencies face at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI adoption, and post-quantum cryptography. Philip breaks down the disconnect between cyber spending and mission outcomes, why rushing into AI without sound identity management and data integrity is a recipe for disaster, and what evolving federal cryptographic requirements and shortened certificate lifecycles mean for government IT. We dig into why visibility — simply knowing what's on your network — remains the most powerful defensive posture regardless of the threat, explore the tension between zero trust and agentic AI, and hear Philip's counterintuitive take that the answer to AI-driven security challenges might just be more AI, purpose-built and narrow in scope. Also, Greg sits down with Chris Townsend, Elastic’s Global VP of Public Sector, at the Elastic Public Sector Summit to unpack how agencies can operationalize data amid rising cyber threats. Townsend explains why open standards and cross-agency data sharing matter—and how agentic AI can help modernize SOC operations by prioritizing alerts and speeding response times.

In our reporter chat, Greg Otto and Derek Johnson break down the surge of AI-in-cybersecurity developments—from Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and the “too dangerous to release” Mythos model to OpenAI’s trusted-access approach—focusing on what these tools could mean for vulnerability discovery and the balance between real risk and hype.
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    45 m
  • What does industry think of the White House's cybersecurity strategy?

    What does industry think of the White House's cybersecurity strategy?
    Apr 10 2026
    Bob Ackerman (founder of Allegis Cyber and a partner at DataTribe) joins Safe Mode to talk about where the new national cybersecurity strategy is trying to push the industry—especially around more open, coordinated “active disruption” with government support (and what that does not mean, like hack-back). He shares what he’s hearing from leaders who want clearer “rules of the road,” and why it’s tough to move from reactive collaboraBob Ackerman (founder of Allegiance Cyber and a partner at DataTribe) joins Safe Mode to talk about where the new national cybersecurity strategy is trying to push the industry—especially around more open, coordinated “active disruption” with government support (and what that does not mean, like hack-back). He shares what he’s hearing from leaders who want clearer “rules of the road,” and why it’s tough to move from reactive collaboration to getting ahead of threats. The conversation then turns to AI and why the next couple of years could get “a little spicy,” with offensive tooling accelerating fast and defenders struggling with visibility, noise, and prioritization. Ackerman’s bottom line: don’t get distracted by shiny objects—double down on fundamentals and hygiene, because you can’t defend what you can’t see.tion to getting ahead of threats. The conversation then turns to AI and why the next couple of years could get “a little spicy,” with offensive tooling accelerating fast and defenders struggling with visibility, noise, and prioritization. Ackerman’s bottom line: don’t get distracted by shiny objects—double down on fundamentals and hygiene, because you can’t defend what you can’t see. In our reporter chat, Greg talks with Tim Starks about the proposed CISA budget and warnings that Iran is going after critical infrastructure in cyber domain.
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    31 m
  • When iPhone exploits turn into commodities

    When iPhone exploits turn into commodities
    Mar 26 2026
    A sophisticated iPhone exploit kit known as DarkSword has escaped the world of targeted espionage and landed in public view—leaked on GitHub in a form that researchers say is trivial to repurpose and deploy. With the barrier to entry collapsing to “copy, paste, host,” the immediate concern is no longer whether advanced actors can use it, but how quickly criminal groups and opportunistic attackers will operationalize it against the enormous population of out-of-date iOS devices.
 In this episode, Jame’s Michael Covington joins us for a practitioner-level breakdown of what the DarkSword leak changes, who’s exposed, and what defenders can do right now. We dig into the real enterprise blast radius for organizations with BYOD and partially managed fleets, what meaningful detection and response looks like on iOS when visibility is limited, and how to prioritize patch enforcement, quarantine decisions, and Lockdown Mode for high-risk users. We also zoom out to the bigger pattern: highly capable mobile exploitation frameworks (including recent reporting on Coruna) increasingly surfacing outside tightly controlled circles—reshaping the threat model for Apple devices in the enterprise.

In our reporter chat, Greg talks with Matt Kapko on what they heard during their many conversations during their time at the RSAC 2026 Conference.
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    35 m
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