Security Intelligence Podcast

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Security Intelligence is a weekly news podcast for cybersecurity pros who need to stay ahead of fast-moving threats. Each week, we cover the latest threats, trend, and stories shaping the digital landscape, alongside expert insights that help make sense of it all. Whether you’re a builder, defender, business leader or simply curious about how to stay secure in a connected world, you’ll find timely updates and timeless principles in an accessible, engaging format. New episodes weekly on Wednesdays at 6am EST.

  1. 5d ago

    Why won’t AI agents just follow the rules?

    Visit Security Intelligence podcast page to get more cybersecurity content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/security-intelligence Why bother giving your AI agents rules if they’re just gonna reason around them? On episode 50 of Security Intelligence, Dustin “EvilMog” Heywood, Seth Glasgow and Nick Bradley join host Matt Kosinski to discuss why AI agents go off-script and whether we can stop them. Drawing on the HuggingFace hack and an op-ed from Dark Reading, we explore what ethics looks like for a piece of software that has no concept of right and wrong. Is there a way to balance the utility of probabilistic AI with the security of deterministic controls? Then: The OWASP Top 10 for agentic skills is here, and the list is full of some very basic security hygiene failures. We ask: Why are agentic skills hubs so bad at cybersecurity? Plus: As AI makes it easier than ever to find vulnerabilities and generate bug reports, bug bounty programs are struggling to keep up. Will AI slop spell the end of independent bug research? Finally, Itzhak Chimino stops by to show off ThreatXtension, a tool he helped create to detect malicious browser extensions. All that and more on Security Intelligence. Segments: 00:00 - Intro 1:26 - Can we really control AI agents? 11:49 - OWASP’s Top 10 for agentic skills 20:37 - AI breaks bug bounties 28:47 - ThreatXtension "The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity. AI tools may be used to transcribe this episode and support selected stages of the production process. All AI-assisted content is reviewed by the production team before publication."

    Why won’t AI agents just follow the rules?

  2. Sep 2

    Why OpenAI is calling for a ‘cyber defense surge.’ Plus: Find Evil! winners and TeamPCP losers

    IBM, OpenAI and 100 other organizations released an open letter calling for collective action on cyber defense. On episode 49 of Security Intelligence, Michelle Alvarez, Nick Bradley and J.R. Rao join host Matt Kosinski to explore what a “global cyber defense surge” could—and should—look like. And speaking of collective action on cyber defense: The SANS Institute named the winners of its Find Evil! hackathon last week. The five autonomous incident response agents are now available on the SIFT Workstation. We discuss the results and what the hackathon’s success means for the future of autonomous agents in cybersecurity. Finally: Flare unmasked a couple of the alleged leaders of the notorious hacking gang TeamPCP. We look at how they did it, and what the rest of us can learn from it. 00:00 - INTRO 1:19 - OpenAI’s open letter 12:22 - Find Evil! winners 22:03 - TeamPCP takedown All that and more on Security Intelligence. "The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity. AI tools may be used to transcribe this episode and support selected stages of the production process. All AI-assisted content is reviewed by the production team before publication."

    Why OpenAI is calling for a ‘cyber defense surge.’ Plus: Find Evil! winners and TeamPCP losers

  3. Aug 28

    ‘That’s not a knife’: Attackers outpace defenders with AI. Here’s how we catch up.

    You all know the famous Crocodile Dundee scene, right? “That’s not a knife—this is a knife!” According to Dimple Ahluwalia, IBM Consulting’s Global Offering Lead for CyberDefend, that’s basically the cybersecurity situation today. Except we’re the guys with the switchblades getting clowned on. On this bonus episode of Security Intelligence, Dimple helps me understand one of the most concerning bits to surface in IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report: AI-generated attacks are up 56%, while 64% of organizations report limited or no use of AI tools in security. We discuss why the gap exists, how attackers use AI as both a tool and a target and why the key to bringing more AI into security is to stop thinking about AI. Read the Cost of a Data Breach report: https://www.ibm.com/reports/data-breach Watch the webinar: https://ibm.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1769682&tp_key=2abad1a7b6&sti=web "The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity. AI tools may be used to transcribe this episode and support selected stages of the production process. All AI-assisted content is reviewed by the production team before publication."

    ‘That’s not a knife’: Attackers outpace defenders with AI. Here’s how we catch up.

  4. Aug 26

    Who’s afraid of an open-weight model? GLM, context bombing and post-Black Hat attacks

    GLM-5.3 is, by some measures, better than GPT Sol and Anthropic’s Mythos at vulnerability discovery and validation. On episode 48 of Security Intelligence, Erblind Morina, Kimmie Farrington and Patrick Fussell join host Matt Kosinski to debate whether this is really cool or really scary, or maybe a little of both. Then: Tracebit researchers have developed a way to use prompt injections as a defensive measure. Called “context bombing,” the technique plants malicious prompts alongside the very assets that attacking AI agents are likely to target. Finally, Huntress reports on a rash of social engineering attacks on Black Hat conference attendees. They’re not terribly sophisticated, but any concentrated offensive against the cybersecurity community is worth paying attention to. You never know who might be on the other side of those phishing emails. Segments: 00:00 - Intro 1:14 - GLM-5.3 11:46 - Context bombing 19:12 - Black Hat conference attacks "The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity. AI tools may be used to transcribe this episode and support selected stages of the production process. All AI-assisted content is reviewed by the production team before publication."

    Who’s afraid of an open-weight model? GLM, context bombing and post-Black Hat attacks

  5. Aug 19

    What should security leaders do with AI? They don’t know.

    Cybersecurity leaders are flush with cash—earmarked for AI, mind you—and eager to spend it. What they don’t have is a plan for how. This week on Security Intelligence, Claire Nuñez, Curtis Pitts and Dave Bales join host Matt Kosinski to talk about why so many security teams are experience AI decision fatigue—and what to do about it. Then, we discuss Tenet Security’s DEFCON presentation on ghostjacking, a new method for sneaking malicious prompts into some of our most trusted data sources (logs, alerts, error reports). Because regular prompt injections are just too vanilla. Oh, and speaking of how to deploy AI in cybersecurity: Research from 1Password shows LLMs are a lot better at exploiting vulnerabilities than patching them. What does that mean for defenders? Find out all this—and more—on Security Intelligence. 00:00 - Introduction 1:04 - Cybersecurity’s AI paralysis 10:45 - Ghostjacking 20:53 - Is AI bad at patching? Agentic AI identity management with IBM: https://www.ibm.com/solutions/agentic-ai-identity-management "The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity. AI tools may be used to transcribe this episode and support selected stages of the production process. All AI-assisted content is reviewed by the production team before publication."

    What should security leaders do with AI? They don’t know.

  6. Aug 12

    The OWASP LLM Top 10 has a few surprises for you

    What’s the biggest, baddest, most unruly problem in AI security? Turns out that depends on whether you’re asking practitioners or looking at incident data. In this episode of IBM Security Intelligence, we break down the OWASP LLM Top 10 for 2026, which took the unusual step of using both community votes and incident databases to inform its rankings. There are some interesting gaps—the data says misinformation is a bigger deal than the pros think, while prompt injections happen less than the headlines might have you believe. But it’s not as simple as “numbers don’t lie and the experts are wrong.” Then, CISA's 2026 SBOM guidance asks for even more data, but does that actually mean less risk? And our panelists share highlights from Black Hat, including new details on how attackers can use misinformation to hijack agentic browsers. All that and more on Security Intelligence. 00:00 - Intro 1:26 - OWASP LLM Top 10 12:55 - CISA’s SBOM guidance 20:05 - Black Hat 2026 highlights "The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity. AI tools may be used to transcribe this episode and support selected stages of the production process. All AI-assisted content is reviewed by the production team before publication."

    The OWASP LLM Top 10 has a few surprises for you

  7. Aug 5

    Oh look. Anthropic’s AI models also broke containment.

    Last week, OpenAI’s models broke out of their sandboxes to cause chaos. This week, it’s Anthropic’s turn. On this episode of Security Intelligence, Diego Matos Martins, Kimmie Farrington and Jeff Crume join host Matt Kosinski to discuss the results of Anthropic’s internal review of testing procedures following the Hugging Face incident last month. Anthropic uncovered three instances of Claude models escaping containment and hacking real companies during what were supposed to be simulations. Granted, that’s three incidents out of 141,000 reviewed tests, which raises the question: Just how big a deal is this really? Then, we talk about research from Zenity into PleaseFix, a class of vulnerabilities that affects every agentic browser on the market. Zenity’s take: In the rush toward agentic functionality, these tools stripped away decades’ worth of browser security fundamentals. Finally, a so-called “security researcher” has a public GitHub repo of 200+ zero-day exploits. They say it’s to encourage more interest in cybersecurity. Yeah. Okay. Sure. All that and more on Security Intelligence. 00:00 - Intro 1:12 - Claude breaks containment 13:13 - Agentic browsers: security nightmares 21:56 - The Exploitarium Listen to the latest bonus episode: Your data breach plan is missing something major: people. https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/security-intelligence/data-breach-plan-people "The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity. AI tools may be used to transcribe this episode and support selected stages of the production process. All AI-assisted content is reviewed by the production team before publication."

    Oh look. Anthropic’s AI models also broke containment.

  8. Jul 31

    Your data breach plan is missing something major: people.

    When a cyberattack hits, your security team knows exactly what to do. What about everyone else? In this episode of Security Intelligence, Limor Kessem, X-Force Cyber Crisis Management Global Lead, explores the side of breach response that most organizations forget: the human side. From employees posting ransom notes on Facebook to well-meaning staffers accidentally paying ransoms to sanctioned entities, the biggest threats to your crisis response often come from inside the building. Kessem makes the case for expansive, cross-functional incident response playbooks that arm everyone from HR to the C-suite with exactly what they need to do, hour by hour, when things go sideways. She also digs into crisis leadership, emotional management and the overlooked logistics—like who feeds your team during a 48-hour response sprint—that can make the difference between succumbing to the crisis or coming out on top. The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity. Follow the Security Intelligence podcast on your preferred platform: https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/security-intelligence

    Your data breach plan is missing something major: people.
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Security Intelligence is a weekly news podcast for cybersecurity pros who need to stay ahead of fast-moving threats. Each week, we cover the latest threats, trend, and stories shaping the digital landscape, alongside expert insights that help make sense of it all. Whether you’re a builder, defender, business leader or simply curious about how to stay secure in a connected world, you’ll find timely updates and timeless principles in an accessible, engaging format. New episodes weekly on Wednesdays at 6am EST.

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