Expert Insights Podcast

Expert Insights Podcast

The Experts Insights Podcast brings you insights and knowledge from cybersecurity and technology experts. Each episode, we conduct in-depth interviews with top cybersecurity leaders from leading vendors, practitioners and security teams. Guests include CEOs, Directors, CISOs and more from innovative tech companies. We dive deep into the cybersecurity issues and trends that matter to your business. podcasts.expertinsights.com

  1. 9h ago

    #95. Black Hat 2026: AI Agents, Frontier Models, and the Quantum Countdown

    This is a roundup episode pulling together four conversations we recorded at Black Hat USA 2026, each looking at a different piece of the same story: AI is changing what attackers and defenders can do, and most organizations are behind on both fronts. Daniel Blackford, VP and Head of Threat Research at Proofpoint, breaks down why ransomware timelines are collapsing from weeks to hours, and walks through “half-click,” a Russian state-sponsored exploit that ran just from an email loading in a preview pane, no click required. Dhawal Sharma, EVP of AI Security and Strategic Initiatives at Zscaler, explains why securing AI agents is a fundamentally different problem from securing human users, and why standard DLP policies miss an agent that’s doing something it was never intended to do. Deepen Desai, Zscaler’s Chief Security Officer, shares results from Project Glass Wing, including a frontier model that bypassed its own security patch three times out of five, and makes the case for deception as the highest-value control against AI-driven attacks. Todd Moore, Global VP and GM of data security products at Thales, explains why 2029 is closer than it sounds for quantum-safe cryptography, and what security leaders should be doing about it right now, not in three years. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit podcasts.expertinsights.com

    #95. Black Hat 2026: AI Agents, Frontier Models, and the Quantum Countdown
  2. Jul 28

    #93. Digital Executive Protection: Why Your C-Suite Is the Weakest Link in Cybersecurity with BlackCloak

    Ahead of Black Hat 2026, Joel Witts, Content Director at Expert Insights, talks with Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder and CEO of BlackCloak, about the growing risk facing corporate executives outside the four walls of the company, in their homes, personal accounts and family lives. Pierson is a former CISO, chief privacy officer, and longtime Department of Homeland Security advisor who founded BlackCloak and created the digital executive protection category. He explains why the millions companies spend on cybersecurity rarely extend to the personal lives of their executives, and why that gap has become a material business risk, from data broker exposure and personal account breaches to home networks that can be compromised despite passing 41 straight weeks of penetration testing. In this episode, they discuss: * Why executives and their family members are targeted through data brokers, breached passwords and public profiles, and how that access can lead back into the company * Real incidents BlackCloak has responded to, including a compromised home alarm and camera system and a virtual kidnapping scam built from social media activity * How live, real-time deepfake voice and video attacks have outpaced Zoom and Teams-based verification, and why attackers simply call an executive’s personal device instead * BlackCloak’s new circle of trust expansion, announced at Black Hat 2026, which extends out-of-band impersonation protection to trusted third parties like wealth advisors, attorneys and family staff * Why digital executive protection has to operate outside the company, structured more like a health benefit than a corporate security function, to protect both executive privacy and the business This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit podcasts.expertinsights.com

    #93. Digital Executive Protection: Why Your C-Suite Is the Weakest Link in Cybersecurity with BlackCloak
  3. Jul 21

    #92. Fighting Back Against AI-Driven Phishing With Cofense

    Ahead of Black Hat 2026, Joel Witts, Content Director at Expert Insights, talks with Marc Olesen, CEO of Cofense, about how AI is reshaping the phishing threat landscape and what it takes to defend against it. Olesen joined Cofense in January 2025, bringing over 30 years of technology leadership from roles including CEO at TokenEx, President and CEO at Sift, and senior leadership positions at Splunk and McAfee. He explains why polymorphic phishing, where AI generates a unique variation of an attack with every email, has become the default delivery model for attackers, and why AI has cut the time to build a phishing attack from 16 hours to five minutes. In this episode, they discuss: * Why 88% of AI-generated phishing attacks are now unique, and what that means for signature and rules-based defenses * How business email compromise and OAuth/identity-based attacks still start with the inbox, even as phishing spreads to WhatsApp, Teams and other channels * Cofense’s post-perimeter approach: combining AI-driven detection with human-verified intelligence to neutralize reported threats in under 10 minutes * The “automation gap” between attacker and defender AI, and why a trained human layer will always be needed to close it * What the next 12 months of phishing could look like, from deepfakes and voice cloning to new email confirmation workflows * Olesen’s advice for security leaders building a defense-in-depth strategy against phishing This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit podcasts.expertinsights.com

    #92. Fighting Back Against AI-Driven Phishing With Cofense

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The Experts Insights Podcast brings you insights and knowledge from cybersecurity and technology experts. Each episode, we conduct in-depth interviews with top cybersecurity leaders from leading vendors, practitioners and security teams. Guests include CEOs, Directors, CISOs and more from innovative tech companies. We dive deep into the cybersecurity issues and trends that matter to your business. podcasts.expertinsights.com