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The Open-Weight Liability Trap: Who Pays When AI Fails? (opens the original)
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This week, Christina & Rory are joined by Fractional CISO, Risk & Governance expert, - and soon to be author - Kayne McGladrey as he returns to the show to discuss the complex and rapidly evolving legal and financial realities of AI liability. Who takes the fall when AI systems make critical errors, violate copyrights, or leak data? The discussion delves into the pros and cons of open-weight models i.e. they save money on token costs, but the deploying company must assume 100% of the liability f
The Missing "R": Semperis On Identity, Resilience & Recovery (opens the original)
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In this week's episode, Simon Hodgkinson - strategic advisor for Semperis - returns for his third appearance on the show to discuss why the cybersecurity industry needs to completely re-evaluate how it handles identity resilience. Is ITDR missing it's "R", because it fails to include "Recovery"? Christina, Rory & Simon discuss how a true response to an identity platform compromise cannot be separated from recovery, because the identity platform is the lifeblood of the modern digital ecosystem. I
Beyond the AI Hype: Billion-Dollar Infrastructure and the Reality of Cyber M&A (opens the original)
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Another Special Episode this week! Christina and Rory review the state of the cybersecurity M&A landscape in 2026, and discuss how AI is causing a significant shift in strategic positioning, driven by a mixture of time-to-market desire, infrastructure build-outs, and a continuing approach by major telecommunications companies to spin-out their security services divisions. Fortinet Acquires AI Security Company Virtue AI Genesis PE Acquires SK Shieldus Security Unit Bank of America Acquires UK-bas
The High-Fidelity Future of AI Impersonation, with ZeroFox (opens the original)
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In this week's episode, Christina are Rory are joined by Russ Bentley, EVP Product Management at ZeroFox to discuss the alarming ease with which AI can now be used to create ultra-realistic and convincing impersonations and the resulting challenges for executive protection. Some great points by Russ, including the need for a return to foundational social engineering awareness. Recommendations: focus on the "basic tells" that are more resistant to AI manipulation - such as questioning the context
Why AI is not the (only) answer in Cybersecurity (opens the original)
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SPECIAL EPISODE: this week, Christina & Rory take the plunge and debate the merits of AI and AI Agents in cybersecurity strategy. What are the pros & cons? How can AI benefit those managing cyber defence vs. the cyber criminals, nation state actors and other attackers pushing on the offensive side? It's often been called an "arms race", so where will it end - if it can? What are the lessons that cybersecurity professionals should bear in mind, and what role will humans have in the rapidly develo
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