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Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week's episode co-hosted by me, David Spark, the producer of CISO Series, and Howard Holton, CEO, GigaOm. Joining is Tyler King, senior director - threat operations and response, Sinclair.

In this episode:

• Career insurance
• In the trenches together
• Who are you actually selling to?
• Common sense, uncommon in sales

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We think of cybersecurity as a discipline. But when do ideas like best practices and NIST frameworks change into a system of belief?

Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week's episode co-hosted by David Spark, the producer of CISO Series, and Davi Ottenheimer, principal, Flying Penguin. Joining is Joshua Copeland, director of security, Crescendo.

In this episode:

• Tools, not religion
• The case for structured discipline
• The management problem underneath
• Fix the damn holes

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We know human-paced security controls can't be applied to autonomous AI agents. So what needs to change with CNAPP and cloud security?

Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week's episode co-hosted by David Spark, the producer of CISO Series, and Steve Zalewski. Joining us is our sponsored guest, Dan Benjamin, vp product - data, identity, and AI security, Palo Alto Networks.

In this episode:

• The detection ceiling
• A category gap, not a feature gap
• Resilience by design
• An insider threat with no face

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