While Rory is at the Cisco EMEA Analyst Event, Christina chats with Dov Yoran, Co-Founder / CEO of Command Zero, discussing the topics of modernizing SOC investigations, maintaining deterministic rigor in an AI-driven world, and empowering the human security analysts.

Rather than replacing SOC analysts or stockpiling raw logs, Dov argues that using curated, deterministic logic to query disparate data silos in real time helps deliver transparent, repeatable investigations. He believes that this approach up-skills Tier 1 analysts and enables pragmatic, guided remediation that automatically builds compounding organizational knowledge over time.

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Rory gives us a re-cap of his two-day visit to Cisco's EMEA Analyst summit, sharing his thoughts on the vendor's product and go-to-market strategy, how geopolitical considerations affect customers in EMEA, and the importance to Cisco of trust.....

Adobe software dupe maker takes on Microsoft Office, releasing free versions of Word, Powerpoint, and Excel

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Hosts Christina Richmond and Rory Duncan are joined this week by Glenn Weinstein, CEO of Cloudsmith to discuss building high-performing company cultures, navigating software supply chain risks, and securing modern development workflows. To counter machine-speed AI threats, Glenn proposes that organizations must embed automated "don't make me think" security guardrails directly into workflows so developers don't expend cognitive energy on manual vulnerability checks. Much like sports team management taking care of logistics so athletes can focus on competing, leadership should automate background security tasks to free developers to concentrate on solving core customer problems.

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US Senate Passes Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Healthcare Cybersecurity

Temporal buys AI security startup Oso weeks after raising $550M

RSA Launches RSA Agent ID, an agentic identity security platform for highly regulated industries

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This week, Andy Hornegold, Chief Security Technologist and Head of Product at Intruder joins hosts Christina Richmond and Rory Duncan to discuss offensive security, the economics of defensive AI, and how organizations can stay ahead of modern threat actors.

The trio conclude that, to navigate rapid threat evolution and the rising costs and guardrails of commercial frontier models, defenders must prioritize fundamental attack surface reduction and lean toward specialized or open-source models for cleaner vulnerability triage.

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Akamai publishes its latest State of The Internet (SOTI) report, titled “Speed, Scale and Non-Human Identity: The Agentic Threat Landscape”

CISCO Talos Discovers Closed Quorum: the first reported autonomous AI C2 implant

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