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Today · 45 min
Episode 386 Deep Dive: Shane Buckley | Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? The AI Spending Reckoning
Shane Buckley, CEO of Gigamon, has watched the AI spending story turn in months. Companies that treated token consumption as a badge of honour are now blowing through their AI budget by day three of the month, with the bill hitting earnings reports and boardrooms. He explains why more tools never meant more security, why he expects rising data centre costs to push token prices up, and why augmentation beats replacement. Then comes the security squeeze. Using his pizza analogy, AI eats the budget
September 16 · 46 min
Episode 385 Deep Dive: Reece Corbett-Wilkins | From Crisis to Resilience - Protecting Our Way of Life
Reece takes us behind the scenes of the Instructure incident, where his team fielded 65 instructions in 48 hours, and explains how a catastrophic cyber event actually gets run across insurers, government and thousands of schools at once. KB & Reece get into the hidden cost almost no one budgets for, business interruption, and what the JLR and Change Healthcare cases reveal about how dependent our economy has become on a handful of suppliers. He also makes the case that AI is quietly splitting se
September 9 · 42 min
Episode 384 Deep Dive: Sumedh Thakar | Mythos Turned 30 Days Into 24 Hours.
When Mythos hit in April, the security world split between panic and hype. Sumedh Thakar, President and CEO of Qualys, joins KB to make the calmer case that Mythos accelerated an old threat rather than inventing one. They get into why zero-day vulnerabilities now need zero-day remediation, the misread that Mythos runs on your own code while your vendors use it too, the board conversation it reopened, tokenomics and budget pressure, and how much a CISO should really hand to the machines. About Su
September 3 · 38 min
Episode 383 Deep Dive: Sarah Sloan | It Still Runs, But Can You Defend It? The End-of-Life Tech Reckoning
The tech running hospitals, power grids and government services often still works. Sarah Sloan, Cisco’s Head of Cybersecurity Policy for APAC, joins KB to explain why that’s the problem, not the reassurance it sounds like. Drawing on a new ASPI report Cisco funded, “Past its use-by-date,” they get into why so much end-of-life tech is still in place (usually budgets and skills, not negligence), how AI and quantum turned a slow-burn risk into an urgent one, and why most organisations still can’t s
August 26 · 49 min
Episode 382 Deep Dive: Quinton Anderson | Trust the System, Not the Agent – Zero Trust for the Agentic Enterprise
KB sits down with Quinton Anderson, founder of Aigentsphere, to challenge one of the most repeated lines in AI governance: that a human in the loop keeps you safe. His view is that asking people to approve task after task just trains them to say yes. They get into why you should never trust an agent but can trust the system around it, why an agent can’t be fully tested before it goes live, and why the brakes are what let you go fast. A sharp look at what it actually takes to govern agents at sca
August 19 · 47 min
Episode 381 Deep Dive: Gijo Varghese | When a Cyber Attack Becomes a Public Safety Failure
Karissa Breen sits down with Gijo Varghese, Chief Security Officer at OT cyber security firm Secolve, to unpack an uncomfortable trade-off: the same connectivity and AI making power, water and transport smarter are also making them easier to break. Gijo explains how IT and OT convergence has widened the attack surface, why decades-old control systems were never built to touch the internet, and how a single IT intrusion can spill into the physical world. He walks through the incidents that prove
August 12 · 47 min
Episode 380 Deep Dive: Mark Thomas | Owning a Policy PDF Doesn't Mean You Govern Your AI
In this episode, KB sits down with Mark Thomas, IT governance and risk veteran, ISACA Hall of Famer and president of Escoute Consulting, to pull apart a problem a lot of boards haven’t clocked yet – the gap between owning an AI policy and being able to prove it controls anything. They get into the Air Canada chatbot case and what it says about accountability, why the honest board test is “would anyone notice if this was violated,” and how the risk changes once agents move from recommending to ex
August 5 · 42 min
Episode 379 Deep Dive: Sean Duca | Confidence Is Not Permission - Rethinking Authority in the Autonomous SOC
Most security vendors are shipping AI that treats capability as authority. Sean Duca thinks that’s the mistake customers are already paying for. Back on KBKast for a third time, now as co-founder and CEO of getsoteria.ai, Sean makes the case that confidence and permission are two separate gates, and that an autonomous SOC needs both before it touches anything. He walks Karissa through governed autonomy: the machine acts on its own, but only inside a boundary it can’t set or cross. A bank teller
July 29 · 39 min
Episode 378 Deep Dive: Harman Kaur | Automation Isn't Transformation - From Intent to Outcome in Autonomous IT
The old security math is broken. Teams used to get roughly 60 days between a vulnerability going public and attackers using it. Harman Kaur, Tanium’s CTO, explains why that number has flipped to negative, and what it means when the patch you need does not exist yet. This conversation is about the difference between automation and transformation. Running the same broken process faster is not progress. Harman makes the case for rebuilding security from first principles: changing org charts, retiri
July 22 · 39 min
Episode 377 Deep Dive: Bradon Rogers | The Forgotten Workspace - Why Nobody Ever Secured the Browser
Bradon Rogers, Chief Customer Officer at Island, the company that created the enterprise browser category in 2020, joins KB to unpack why the industry spent two decades bolting security around the browser instead of building it in. They dig into whether organisations are solving complexity or just relocating it, why VPNs and VDI survived so long when everybody hated them, and Bradon’s blunt read on SASE: legacy on-prem architecture shoved into the cloud. He explains why SSL inspection leaves bli
July 17 · 33 min
From SAP Sapphire - KB On The Go | Legacy Risk and the AI Trust Gap
KB is on the ground at SAP Sapphire 2026 in Orlando, where AI has moved beyond experimentation and into the center of enterprise decision making. In this KB On The Go episode, Maura Hameroff (CMO, Cloud ERP Private and RISE with SAP) makes the case that modernizing your core is a business transformation decision rather than a technical upgrade, and that companies still running on legacy systems carry more operational and security risk than most realize. Then Ted Way, PhD (VP & Chief Product Offi
July 15 · 39 min
Episode 376 Deep Dive: Anna Wheeler | Synthetic Confidence - When the Board Believes the Machine
In this episode, Anna Wheeler, CEO of SSAW LLC, joins KB as she explains why so many cyber teams are stuck in event-driven strategy while calling it the real thing, why the doers can’t climb out of it because their KPIs won’t let them, and why visionary CEOs keep getting ousted when the board can’t see what they see. Along the way: the CEOs quietly burning more AI tokens than anyone else in their company, vendors winning unicorn exits on marketing rather than technology, adversaries stealing enc
July 10 · 32 min
From Cisco Live 2026 Las Vegas – KB On The Go | AI-Speed Attacks and the Race to Quantum-Safe
Recorded at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, where 20,000 operators, engineers and executives gathered at Mandalay Bay to shape the future of networking, AI and cybersecurity. KB sits down with two Cisco leaders confronting the problems AI is creating and the infrastructure built to outlast them. Tom Gillis, SVP and GM of Cisco’s Infrastructure and Security Group, explains why the gap between a vulnerability being disclosed and exploited has collapsed from months to hours, and how Live Protect shie
July 8 · 40 min
Episode 375 Deep Dive: John Deeb | Governance Theater - Why Your AI Policy Is Really Just a Set of Documents
John leads customer success, presales, and professional services across APAC at Workato and serves as Field CTO for the region. With more than twenty-five years of experience, including roles at Oracle and TIBCO and as co-founder of Rubicon Red, he focuses on helping enterprises unlock real, lasting value from AI and integration. In this episode of KBKast, John joins KB to unpack why 42% of AI initiatives were abandoned in 2025, up from 17% the year before, and why the answer isn’t the technolog
July 6 · 38 min
From Atmos SPHERE 2026 – KB On The Go | Global Instability, Vendor Accountability, and Why the Energy Sector Is Already Ahead
KB grabs the mic backstage at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos for two conversations that sit on either end of the same problem: how leaders should be thinking about risk in an unstable world, and what it actually looks like when a sector has been living that instability for years. First up, KB sits down with Chris Krebs, former Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). They get into the CISA cuts making headlines, why old assumptions baked into risk registers no longer h
July 3 · 35 min
From SAP Sapphire - KB On The Go | AI Theater vs the Real Thing
KB is on the ground at SAP Sapphire in Orlando, where AI has officially moved beyond experimentation and into the core of enterprise decision making. In two conversations, Marielle Ehrmann (Chief Security, Compliance and Risk Officer, SAP) unpacks why AI governance has entered the boardroom as an accelerator rather than a brake, what separates responsible AI from AI theater, and why the biggest risk usually isn’t the model itself but the humans around it. Then Martin Merz (President Sovereign Cl
July 1 · 40 min
Episode 374 Deep Dive: Mark Jones | The Department of No Is Over - Why Cyber Has to Lead AI Adoption
Mark Jones is Co Founder of MosaicalAI and has spent more than 25 years working across cybersecurity, technology risk, governance and resilience in complex environments where decisions need to be defensible and the cost of getting it wrong is high. His work sits at the intersection of security, business leadership and change. He helps organisations understand risk, build capability in their people, create practical operating models, and move with confidence when technology is changing faster tha
June 29 · 34 min
From Cisco Live 2026 Las Vegas - KB On The Go | Agents, Attacks, and the Invisible Threat
Recorded at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, where 20,000 operators, engineers and executives gathered at Mandalay Bay to shape the future of networking, AI and cybersecurity. KB sits down with two Cisco security leaders on the front lines of agentic AI. Peter Bailey, SVP and GM of Cisco Security, breaks down why the security frameworks built over the last 20 years weren’t designed for machine-speed agents, and what governance actually needs to look like now. Then Amy Chang, Head of AI Threat Intel
June 26 · 40 min
From Atmos SPHERE 2026 - KB On The Go | Everyone's Business: Cyber Resilience from Government to Ground Level
KB grabs the mic backstage at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos for two conversations that couldn’t look more different on the surface, but end up pointing at the same thing: where cyber threats really come from, and who’s pushing back. First up, KB sits down with Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness, Australia’s National Cybersecurity Coordinator, and Steph Way, Director of the National Office of Cybersecurity. They get into what those 60 actions under Horizon 1 actually delivered, how limited use legisla
June 24 · 40 min
Episode 373 Deep Dive: Pete Harteveld | The Digital Insider - Why Your AI Agents Are the Threat You Didn't Hire
Pete Harteveld was appointed CEO of Exabeam in October 2025 and most recently served as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer. He has more than two decades of leadership experience having built a reputation for scaling revenue and building high-performing global teams across the cybersecurity and technology sectors. Pete played a pivotal role in uniting Exabeam and LogRhythm in 2024, leveraging his deep expertise in mergers and acquisitions to drive a seamless integration and maximise stakeholder

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