Security You Should Know

In this episode, Leo Taddeo, CEO and President at AppGate, explains how the company's zero trust network access platform cloaks internet-facing infrastructure from discovery, uses direct-routed architecture instead of cloud-routed hairpinning to avoid the latency tax, and layers in continuous, context-aware policy checks that go beyond device posture and MFA. Joining him are Ross Young, co-host of CISO Tradecraft, and Derek Fisher, Director of the Cyber Defense and Information Assurance Program at Temple University.

Want to know:

Why does securing remote access remain one of the top attack vectors year after year?
How does AppGate's direct-routed architecture avoid the latency and throughput limits of cloud-routed competitors?
What happens to a user's access when the circumstances that justified it change, like a closed service ticket?
How does cloaking network infrastructure stop an adversary's reconnaissance before it starts?
What's the fallback when a controller hosted in a customer's own data center goes down?
How does AppGate defend against credential replay and man-in-the-middle attacks that bypass MFA entirely?
What does AppGate's per-user licensing model mean for organizations managing multiple devices and enclaves?

Check out the episode for the answers you need.

Huge thanks to our sponsor, AppGate

AppGate secures and protects an organization's most valuable assets with its high performance Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution. AppGate ZTNA is the only direct-routed Zero Trust solution built for peak performance, superior protection and seamless interoperability. AppGate safeguards enterprises and government agencies worldwide. Learn more at appgate.com.

In this episode, Sagar Batchu, CEO of Speakeasy, explains how the Speakeasy AI control plane lets organizations adopt AI everywhere and still prove it's governed — putting every agent, tool, and MCP server behind a single security layer that authenticates each action, enforces policy, and inspects every session for prompt injection and data exfiltration. Pressure-testing the approach are George Finney, CISO at The University of Texas System, and Nick Espinosa, host of The Deep Dive Radio Show.
Want to know:
Why is knowing what your AI agent can access still an unsolved problem, and how much of it traces back to the identity and data governance we never fixed for humans?
Should an AI agent ever be allowed to take an action no individual can fully understand, even when it's statistically more effective than the human alternative?
Where's the line between legitimate governance and surveillance, and how do you assure employees you're not building a panopticon?
Are there decisions and departments that should stay permanently in human hands, off-limits to agents entirely?
When an agent acts through a company's API and something goes wrong, who's actually responsible: the employee, the company, the model developer, the API provider, or the governance platform?
Could a control plane have flagged the week's biggest AI incident before it escalated?
Is adopting this really as simple as switching on enterprise settings and plugging in an API, whether you're an SMB or the Fortune 1?
What is "cognitive surrender," and why does Speakeasy's CEO think it's the one quality companies most need to protect?
Check out the episode for the answers you need.
A huge thanks to our sponsor, Speakeasy.
Speakeasy is the enterprise AI control plane. It governs every AI agent, tool, and MCP server from one place. Every connection is authenticated, every policy enforced, and every agentic action inspected and logged. So organizations can scale AI adoption with visibility and control.

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In this episode, Curtis Simpson, CSO at Gambit Security, explains how Gambit moves organizations past that guesswork by continuously mapping a company's minimally viable business capabilities and validating whether the infrastructure, backups, and recovery processes behind them can actually deliver within the timeframes the business requires. Joining him to pressure-test the approach are Howard Holton, former CEO of GigaOm, and Adam Palmer, CISO at First Hawaiian Bank.

Want to know:

Why do so many disaster recovery plans hold up on paper but fail the moment they're actually needed?
What's the real difference between having something backed up and proving you can recover it?
What is a "minimally viable company," and how much of mapping it is automated versus built on human input?
What happens when your infrastructure fails today, versus what Gambit's roadmap has planned for tomorrow?
What should actually land in front of your CEO or board to demonstrate recovery confidence?
Is there an organization too small, or too mature, to get value from this kind of resilience assessment?
Why does decades-old infrastructure like the mainframe often cause the longest, most damaging outages?
Why is now the moment for security to finally move from a "trust but trust" model to "trust but verify" on recoverability?

Check out the episode for the answers you need.

Huge thanks to our sponsor, Gambit Security

Gambit is the AI-native cyber resilience platform for enterprises that can't afford downtime. It continuously maps your live environment, backups, security tools, and infrastructure-as-code, then validates whether your entire stack can actually recover from disruption. Gambit gives security and infrastructure leaders proof of recoverability on demand, so the business keeps running. Balens maps, controls, and proves your recoverability across every layer of your stack - against infrastructure failures, human and AI errors, and cyber threats. One live view of your cloud, IaC, and backups that updates as your environment evolves. Agentless deployment in 15 minutes. Learn more at gambit.security

In this episode, Andrea Sivieri, Chief Product and Technology Officer at CoreView, explains how CoreView secures that overlooked layer, the configuration, permissions, and structure of a Microsoft 365 tenant rather than just the data flowing through it. Joining him are Davi Ottenheimer, principal at Flying Penguin, and Will Gregorian, CISO at Galileo Medical.

Want to know:

Why does Microsoft's own admin console give you roughly a thousand ways to configure a single setting?
What's the actual difference between securing your Microsoft 365 data and securing your Microsoft 365 configuration?
How does a "virtual tenant" stop one compromised admin account from exposing your entire company?
How do you stay ahead of a vendor that can change its APIs or shut off access without warning?
How do you catch a change to your tenant that you had no way of seeing in the first place?
How far back can you rewind a tenant's configuration history, and why does that number matter?
What does managing a 2.7 million-user tenant reveal about resilience that a small business never has to think about?

Check out the episode for the answers you need.
A huge thanks to our sponsor, CoreView

In this episode, Abby Kearns, CEO of ActiveState, explains how her company closes that gap by rebuilding open-source packages from verified sources before they ever reach a developer's pipeline, rather than scanning for problems after the fact. Joining her are Doug Mayer, vp and CISO at WCG, and Howard Holton, former CEO at GigaOM.

Want to know:

Why is AI increasing exploitability on both the attacker side and the developer side of the open source supply chain?
How does a package catalog replace your package manager without slowing developers down or pushing them around the process?
What does ActiveState do differently than upstream scanning tools like JFrog Artifactory or Sonatype Nexus?
What happens when a developer needs a package that isn't in the catalog yet?
How is ActiveState thinking about shadow AI and SBOM coverage beyond language libraries?
What upcoming regulatory deadlines, like the EU Cyber Resilience Act, should security teams have on their radar?
What happens to open source security when AI produces more CVEs and patches than the maintainers behind these projects can process?
Huge thanks to our sponsor, ActiveState

ActiveState gives security and engineering teams a single governed source for open source software. With 79 million components built from source, continuously remediated, and delivered directly into the tools teams already use, ActiveState eliminates the CVE backlog and the developer toil that comes with it. Companies see a 60 to 99% reduction in CVEs and reclaim up to 30% of developer time. 


Curate a private, vetted repository of open source components from the ActiveState Library that developers use safely without scouring the internet. A Curated Catalog provides your security team total control over what enters their environments while giving engineering teams a fast, secure way to build, onboard, and start new projects.