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Safe Mode Podcast

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  • Can you prove which agent did what?

    Can you prove which agent did what?
    May 7 2026
    In this week's episode, Greg Otto talks with Howard Ting, CEO of Opal Security, about the growing security challenges created by AI agents inside the enterprise, especially around identity governance, access control, and runtime authorization. As organizations adopt coding agents, workplace assistants, and other AI tools, traditional approaches to managing human access are being pushed beyond their limits by the speed, scale, and context required for agent-driven decisions. The conversation explores the risks of shadow AI, overprivileged agents, unintended data exposure, and the difficulty of enforcing least privilege when agents act on behalf of employees across sensitive systems. It also looks at what CISOs and security teams need to prioritize now, from gaining visibility into agent activity to building policy-aware controls that can make real-time access decisions and safely support AI adoption. In our reporter chat, Greg talks with Derek Johnson about a lawsuit where a dating app stole an influencer's TikTok videos to use in targeted ads to people she knew, all without her consent.
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    28 mins
  • How government and Industry can raise the cost of cybercrime

    How government and Industry can raise the cost of cybercrime
    Apr 30 2026
    Sophos CEO Joe Levy and Director of Government Partnerships Alex Rose join Safe Mode from Washington, D.C. to discuss what meaningful public-private cybersecurity partnership looks like right now—moving beyond “window dressing” to real operational collaboration with agencies like CISA and the FBI. They break down the shift from Secure by Design to Secure by Demand, arguing that procurement and market forces must pressure software vendors to ship safer defaults, while AI simultaneously accelerates both vulnerability discovery and attacker capability. The conversation also spotlights why small and midsize businesses are disproportionately exposed yet often underserved, and previews Sophos’s upcoming CISO Advantage concept to help close the massive cybersecurity leadership gap. Finally, they examine rising open-source software risk—including maintainers being overwhelmed by low-quality AI-generated vulnerability reports—and why addressing OSS security will require coordinated action across government and industry. In our reporter chat, Greg talks with Tim Starks about the oral arguments held at the Supreme Court in relation to a case that deals with the future of geofence warrants.
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    43 mins
  • Proving Identity in the age of agents

    Proving Identity in the age of agents
    Apr 23 2026
    As AI makes deepfakes and voice cloning more convincing, attackers are shifting away from traditional vulnerabilities and focusing on identity as the easiest path to account takeover and fraud. In this conversation, Eran Haggiag of Glide Identity discusses what it will take to protect identity in an agentic world—how to prove a real user approved an action, how to establish accountability when software acts on someone’s behalf, and why cryptographic, hardware-rooted signals may be the clearest way out of the cat-and-mouse cycle. In our reporter chat, Greg talks with Matt Kapko about what led to the Vercel breach that dominated this week's headlines.
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    27 mins
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