Episodes

Monday Dec 23, 2024
Monday Dec 23, 2024
In another two-part episode, I sit down with a long-time cybersecurity professional and personal friend, Cal Jeffrey. We first met in 1998 when we were both at Check Point Software. We've remained great friends and have collaborated multiple times. I affectionately call him my personal SMEE—subject matter expert on everything! Joking aside, Cal is a knowledgeable, intelligent, and engaging colleague, and I'm sure you'll enjoy this episode. Please comment and share your thoughts!

Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Part 2
My special guest on episode 62 (in two parts) is a long-time Information Security Executive, entrepreneur, and investor. Todd Beebe cut his teeth in the industry attempting to find his way into other people's systems and networks but turned those skills into a long and successful career bolstering and protecting systems and networks. It was a fascinating discussion with great insights from Todd.

Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Part 1
My special guest on episode 62 (in two parts) is a long-time Information Security Executive, entrepreneur, and investor. Todd Beebe cut his teeth in the industry attempting to find his way into other people's systems and networks but turned those skills into a long and successful career bolstering and protecting systems and networks. It was a fascinating discussion with great insights from Todd.

Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
I'm finally back with a new video format. Thanks for sticking with me. I've decided to run solo in this episode and show one of the most popular presentations I've delivered in the last few years. It's not just a bunch of slides; I show a number of very cool sites too! (links below) I hope you enjoy it!
(Special thanks to Jason Prost for the initial slides. Thanks to Pete Nicoletti for the cool AI Risk Repository from MIT)
Please comment and let me know what you think!
- The A.I. Dilemma
- 60 Minutes Interview with Jeff Hinton (13:12)
- CBS Online Interview with Jeff Hinton (42:30)
- Prof. Geoffrey Hinton - "Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence?"
- Information is Beautiful – LLM’s
- Great article explaining LLM’s
- Ryan Gosling Explaining LLM’s (deepfake)
- Chance the Rapper Explaining RAG (deepfake)
- Will Smith Eating Spaghetti – 2023 and Today
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) explained
- Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD)
- There’s an AI for that!
- GAMMA:This is a great one for creating documents and presentations
- SEOWriting: This is a great one for creating documents and presentations
- AI Won’t Replace Humans — But Humans With AI Will Replace Humans Without AI
- AIToolHund: This is a site listing AI Aggregator Sites
- https://airisk.mit.edu/#How-to-use-the-AI-Risk-Repository

Monday Jul 08, 2024
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Episode #60 features Ori Mankali. Ori is a highly seasoned and experienced software developer and leader who now heads engineering for Akeyless Security. Ori is a pioneer in cloud computing, cloud security, and container technologies. Listen as we discuss numerous topics including zero-trust, remote access security, AI, software development, and more. It was a fun discussion for me and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Sunday Apr 14, 2024
Sunday Apr 14, 2024
If you've been in the cybersecurity industry sometime during the past two decades, you've likely heard of the analyst firm ESG-Enterprise Strategy Group. What you may not know is, before my guest joined ESG more than 21 years ago, the 'S' stood for storage. My guest in Episode 59, Jon Oltsik originally launched the security practice at ESG which now boasts five analysts. Join Jon and me as we discuss several topics including the changes in cybersecurity over the past two decades the impact of AI and more.

Sunday Mar 24, 2024
Sunday Mar 24, 2024
Needless to say, the hottest topic today is Artificial Intelligence and all its variations. So, I found another expert on AI to be my guest. Roland Cozzolino has numerous inventions and patents to his name including inventing the real-time buying of online advertising, common today. Roland is a perfect example of someone who looks at things differently and, as a result, sees different ways to solve problems. He's a brilliant mathematician, developer, AI expert, serious music aficionado, and a terrific guest I know you'll enjoy.

Saturday Mar 16, 2024
Saturday Mar 16, 2024
With a B.Sc., in Physics and Computer Science and M.Sc., in Computer Science, Face Recognition in Infrared Images, and achieving Magna Cum Laude in both, my guest on Episode 57 is a brilliant entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of revolutionary email security vendor, Avanan (Now part of Check Point Software). Hear how they put NLP and AI to work to create the world's top-rated API-based cloud email security solution.

Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
One of the most gnawing and growing security risks in the cloud is the explosion of identities, of all types. Identities mean entitlements, privileges, and access. And in the world of Zero-Trust, this can get pretty granular and complex.
In this episode, we have the pleasure of a return guest. Venkat is the Co-Founder and CEO of Stack Identity (www.stackidentity.com) and when he last was on the program (Oct 2021-Episode 36) Stack had just come out of stealth. Hear about their use cases, the challenges they address, and the security vulnerabilities they remove.

Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Episode 55 kicks off 2024 with a terrific discussion, covering numerous topics, with a highly seasoned cybersecurity executive. Jonathan (Jon) Sargent has held various CISO/CTO/Cloud Security executive roles over the past two decades. Additionally, he's served as adjunct faculty and assistant adjunct professor for cybersecurity. Adding to his rich perspective and experience, Jon is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Eilat Partners and Venture Advisor at Glilot Capital Partners.