Business Security Weekly (Audio)

So you want to be a CISO? Do you know what that role entails? It depends on a number of factors, including industry, country location, technical vs. business, and more. Each position is more different than you think.
Joanna Chen, Chief Information Security Officer at Dashlane, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss why not all CISO gigs are created equal. As a "technical" CISO in a foreign country, Joanna realized that not all of her peers came from a technical background, like herself. It's a broad world and the CISO role varies a lot. Joanna will discuss how to understand the various CISO roles and discuss the skills that are makers and breakers.
Managing Cyber Risk as Financially Motivated Attacks Grow The ransomware and eCrime landscape continue to evolve at a rapid pace. ESET's global research team has been closely following ransomware gang disruptions and their use of EDR Killers to disable cybersecurity tools. In this interview, Tony Anscombe will take a look into recent research, and explore how the industry and businesses are responding to combat financial risk and mitigate threats.
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Attack Surface Just Got a Copilot AI adoption is accelerating faster than most organizations can secure it — and the consequences are showing up in email inboxes, collaboration platforms, and the shadow tools employees use every day. According to Mimecast's State of Human Risk 2026, 80% of organizations are concerned about sensitive data exposure through generative AI tools, yet 60% still lack strategies to address AI-driven threats. The result is a growing gap between the security investments organizations are making and the protection they're actually getting. In this conversation, Rob Juncker will explore why human behavior has become the defining variable in enterprise cybersecurity, how shadow AI is creating new data exposure and insider risk vectors, and what it takes for security architectures to adapt in real time — without slowing down the business.
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Autonomous AI agents are creating a new attack surface for enterprise security teams, particularly as organizations deploy agents for operational tasks such as customer support automation, data analysis, and incident response. How can we align our Zero Trust initiatives to also address the emerging Agentic AI risks?
John Bruggeman, Consulting CISO at CBTS, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss how your Zero Trust readiness can also prepare you for Agentic AI deployments. Organizations are granting agents access to sensitive systems without the security controls typically required for other Zero Trust initiatives. John will help educate CISOs on what they should be doing now to get ahead of the risk, including:
Agent inventory
Data security controls, including data model poisoning
Agent identity controls, including authorization and access levels
Infrastructure security controls, including MCP servers
Why More Technology Hasn't Made Us More Secure Despite massive investment in cybersecurity tools, organizations remain vulnerable because their existing technologies are often misconfigured, poorly integrated, and disconnected from real operational risk. This keynote argues that complexity, human decision‑making, and gaps in execution—not a lack of products—are what truly empower attackers, especially as modern environments like cloud and SaaS expand the attack surface. Real security comes from simplifying, aligning, and expertly orchestrating what organizations already own, shifting the focus from buying tools to achieving disciplined, resilient outcomes grounded in breach reality.
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Downtime: The New Economic Threat Downtime is costing global enterprises hundreds of billions of dollars in losses annually. Caused by cyber incidents and software failures, enterprise CISOs are searching for strategies and solutions that will accelerate recovery and restoration of business operations after cyber disruptions render systems inoperable.
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Most organizations don't fail because of technology. They fail because decision authority is unclear in the first critical minutes. "Being careful" is often interpreted as waiting for certainty, but that delay creates exposure. How should executives make decisions under pressure?
Ann Marie van den Hurk, Founder at Mind The Gap Advisory, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss how executive paralysis leads to business damage. Ann Marie will discuss:
Where Paralysis Actually Comes From
What "Being Careful" Looks Like in Practice
Why the First 20 Minutes Matter
How Paralysis Becomes Business Damage
Why Existing Plans Don't Hold
What Actually Fixes It
Then, we rebroadcast two interviews from RSAC 2026.
Autonomous Intelligence and the Future of Digital Trust AI agents are no longer experimental tools — they are becoming autonomous participants in enterprise infrastructure. Acting independently, making decisions at machine speed, and interacting directly with sensitive systems, these agents fundamentally reshape the trust model that underpins modern organizations. As AI becomes embedded across operations, security must evolve from perimeter defense to continuous, identity-driven trust. This conversation explores what it means to build a resilient trust architecture for autonomous systems — one that ensures verifiable identity, constrained authority, accountability, and governance at scale. We'll examine how enterprises can balance innovation with control, prevent misuse or spoofed agents, and prepare for a future defined by machine-to-machine interactions. At stake is not just cybersecurity, but the integrity of digital trust itself.
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Know Your AI Agents Through Visibility, Control, and Accountability AI agents are rapidly embedding into core enterprise workflows with broad access to sensitive systems and the ability to act autonomously, creating new challenges for security leaders tasked with enabling innovation while maintaining control. In this interview, Matt Immler will discuss why organizations must know about every agent operating in their environment and how to bring those agents under governance.
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With Q-day getting closer, regulatory guidance pushing firms to migrate to quantum security in the next five years, and an extensive remediation backlog waiting to be discovered, security leaders must start their quantum security migration today. Easier said than done. In this Say Easy, Do Hard segment, we discuss the quantum-safe journey using a framework for crypto-agility.
In part 1, we define cryptographic agility, or crypto-agility for short, and why it's important. Crypto-agility is not just about transitioning to quantum-safe cryptography in the nimblest way possible, and it's not something that can be achieved merely by updating encryption algorithms and protocols. Instead, you need to adapt your organization's cryptographic architecture, automation, and governance to allow for greater control and flexibility.
In part 2, we discuss a framework for discovery, prioritization, and remediation while keeping crypto-agility in mind. A quantum-safe journey requires:
Inventory of Systems With Non-Quantum-Safe Algorithms And Protocols
System Prioritization, Leading To A Migration Roadmap
Remediation, Including Vendors And Partners
Once a distant possibility, Q-Day is quickly approaching. Are you ready for 2030?
Segment Resources:
https://pqcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/PQC-Migration-Roadmap-PQCC-2.pdf
https://pqcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/PQCC-Inventory-Workbook.xlsx
https://qramm.org/learn/cryptoscan-guide.html
https://research.ibm.com/blog/quantum-safe-cbomkit
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Security metrics often fail because they measure activity rather than actual risk, often failing to connect with business impact, making them difficult to explain to boards and executives. How do you build efffective metrics that are actionable, contextual, and valuable?
Ben Wilcox, CTO & CISO at ProArch, joins Business Security Weekly to help us speak the language of the board. Ben will cover how to develop measurable, strategic, and AI-ready security metrics.
In the leadership and communications segment, Only 30 minutes per quarter on cyber risk: Why CISO-board conversations are falling short, When the Team Gets the Recognition, Your Leadership Is Working, The communication lesson that changed my career, and more!
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