HeyJaredAdversary Universe Podcast
Modern adversaries are relentless. Today’s threat actors target organizations around the world with sophisticated cyberattacks. Who are they? What are they after? And most importantly, how can you defend against them?
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China’s 15th Five-Year Plan: What You Need to Know (opens the original)
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Over the past several decades, China’s five-year plan has provided a roadmap to the country's innovation and economic growth. It details what China is interested in, where technology is evolving, and what it plans to target, including the highest-priority verticals.“It’s their shopping list,” as Adam puts it. His team does a deep analysis on these plans, including information published adjacent to it and the discrepancies across various languages.The latest five-year plan, published in March 202
Preparing for an AI-Powered Future with Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt (opens the original)
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Steve Schmidt, SVP and CSO at Amazon, sees firsthand how both defenders and adversaries are using AI to their advantage. In this episode, he joins Adam and Cristian to discuss modern AI models, evolving adversary behavior, and how Amazon is responding to shifts in the threat landscape.“The big change we’ve seen recently is the ability of models to chain things together to produce something interesting,” Steve says. As AI models grow more adept at automatically chaining and acting, he adds, the t
AI as a Weapon, Target, and Enterprise Reality with CoreWeave’s Natasha Eastman (opens the original)
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“What are these AI systems attached to that make them such a huge risk?”“Everything.” Today, the Adversary Universe podcast welcomes Natasha Eastman, head of threat intelligence at CoreWeave, to share her perspective on how AI is used in the modern enterprise, the infrastructure needed to support it, and how she sees adversaries both using and attacking it.AI hasn’t necessarily given adversaries wholly new capabilities, Natasha explains. It enables them to do things faster, more capably, and wit
Unpacking the CrowdStrike 2026 Threat Hunting Report with CrowdStrike’s Katie Blankenship (opens the original)
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The CrowdStrike 2026 Threat Hunting Report is now live! The report sheds light on how our threat hunters and analysts hunt and defend against the world’s most sophisticated adversaries. It’s packed with stories from the front lines and trends that define the modern threat landscape.Joining Adam to dig into its findings is Katie Blankenship, Sr. Director of the Global Threat Analysis Cell for the CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations team. Katie, who leads the charge for our major intelligence
SaaS Security Threats to Worry About, with Salesforce’s Kelly McCracken (opens the original)
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Kelly McCracken, SVP of the Cyber Security Operations Center at Salesforce, leads one of the most complex and high-scale cyber operation environments on the planet. Today, she joins Adam and Cristian to discuss how adversaries are targeting SaaS vendors, the most underappreciated SaaS misconfigurations, and what the future of the shared responsibility model looks like.SaaS is a continuously growing target, but who is taking aim? eCrime adversaries such as SNARKY SPIDER and CORDIAL SPIDER are one
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