Techsplainers by IBM

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Introducing the Techsplainers by IBM podcast, your new podcast for quick, powerful takes on today’s most important AI and tech topics. Each episode brings you bite-sized learning designed to fit your day, whether you’re driving, exercising, or just curious for something new. This is just the beginning. Tune in every weekday at 6 AM ET for fresh insights, new voices, and smarter learning. Visit podcast page: https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/techsplainers

  1. 16h ago

    What is Continuous Compliance?

    This episode of Techsplainers explores continuous compliance and how organizations Techsplainers explores continuous compliance and how organizations use automated, ongoing checks to stay aligned with regulations and frameworks instead of relying only on periodic audits. The episode explains how continuous compliance works in practice, from translating legal and policy frameworks instead of relying only on periodic audits. The episode explains how continuous compliance works in practice, from translating legal and policy requirements into measurable controls to collecting evidence across identity systems, cloud environments, configuration tools and vulnerability scanners. It also walks through how governance, risk and compliance platforms help validate that evidence, report on gaps and support remediation workflows. Along the way, the discussion clarifies the difference between continuous compliance and continuous monitoring, showing how monitoring provides the raw signals while compliance maps those signals to regulatory obligations such as HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS. It also examines why continuous compliance matters for audit readiness, incident response, forensic analysis and cost control, especially as noncompliance can increase the financial impact of a breach. Finally, the episode connects continuous compliance to digital sovereignty, highlighting how real-time visibility and verifiable control can help organizations demonstrate trust, resilience and regulatory alignment. Find more information at https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/continuous-compliance Find all the Techsplainers episodes here: https://www.ibm.biz/techsplainers-podcast Narrated by Amanda Downie

  2. 1d ago

    What is Regulatory Compliance?

    This episode of Techsplainers explores regulatory compliance and why it has evolved from a periodic governance task into an ongoing business capability. The episode explains regulatory compliance as the practice of keeping an organization aligned with the laws, regulations and formal requirements that govern how it operates, uses technology, protects data and serves customers. It walks through why compliance matters for risk management, data protection, customer trust and business growth, showing how strong compliance practices can reduce legal exposure while also supporting resilience and market expansion. The discussion also breaks down how regulatory compliance works across its core lifecycle: identifying applicable regulations, establishing internal controls, monitoring effectiveness and maintaining evidence. Along the way, it highlights major privacy, cybersecurity and industry-specific frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2, NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS and SOX, plus newer regulations like the EU AI Act and DORA. The episode also explains how continuous compliance, GRC platforms, SIEM tools, IAM systems and automation are reshaping compliance into a near real-time practice that supports both operational efficiency and digital sovereignty. Find more information at https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/regulatory-compliance Find all the Techsplainers episodes here: https://www.ibm.biz/techsplainers-podcast Narrated by Amanda Downie

    What is Regulatory Compliance?

  3. 2d ago

    What is the GDPR?

    This episode of Techsplainers explores the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, and why it has become one of the most influential privacy laws in the world. The episode explains how the GDPR defines personal data, why it was created to modernize Europe’s earlier privacy framework, and how it applies both inside and outside the EU and EEA. It walks through the regulation’s inside and outside the EU and EEA. It walks through the regulation’s core principles, the six lawful bases for processing data, and the rights it gives individuals, including access, correction, erasure, portability and protections related to automated decision-making. The discussion also examines what GDPR compliance requires from organizations in practice, from maintaining records of processing activities to adopting privacy by design, conducting impact assessments, managing cross-border data transfers and reporting data breaches. Along the way, the episode connects GDPR to broader issues such as digital sovereignty and the responsible use of AI, showing why privacy governance now reaches well beyond legal teams and into product design, security and operations. Find more information at https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/gdpr Find all the Techsplainers episodes here: https://www.ibm.biz/techsplainers-podcast Narrated by Amanda Downie

    What is the GDPR?

  4. 3d ago

    What is Cloud Sovereignty?

    This episode of Techsplainers explores sovereign cloud and how it helps organizations meet country- and region-specific requirements for handling sensitive data. It follows the topic from the basic definition into the practical questions enterprises face around where data is stored, which laws apply, and who can access cloud systems. The episode explains the difference between data residency and data sovereignty, then shows why sovereign cloud has become more important as cloud environments increasingly support critical services, AI workloads, and operations in heavily regulated industries. The discussion also looks at the main benefits of sovereign cloud, including stronger organizational control, improved compliance, tighter access restrictions, resilience planning, and advanced encryption practices. From there, it places sovereign cloud within the wider framework of digital sovereignty, covering operational, technology, AI, and data sovereignty and showing where sovereign cloud fits within that larger picture. The episode closes with deployment choices such as public and distributed cloud, along with the practical factors organizations should evaluate in a cloud service provider, from governance and encryption to resiliency and compliance expertise. Find more information at https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/sovereign-cloud Find all the Techsplainers episodes here: https://www.ibm.biz/techsplainers-podcast Narrated by Amanda Downie

    What is Cloud Sovereignty?

  5. 6d ago

    What is M2M authentication?

    This episode of Techsplainers explores machine-to-machine authentication and explains why it has become a foundational control for modern runtime security. As nonhuman identities continue to multiply, computer systems need a reliable way to verify which workloads are actually making requests before any data, service or infrastructure action is allowed. The episode walks through how M2M authentication works across workload clients, credentials, identity providers and resource servers. From there, the discussion looks at common M2M authentication patterns. Along the way, listeners learn the benefits, tradeoffs and best-fit scenarios for each pattern, along with why short-lived, verifiable machine identity is so important for zero trust, least privilege and safe automation at AI and cloud scale. Find more information at https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/m2m-authentication Find all the Techsplainers episodes here https://www.ibm.biz/techsplainers-podcast Narrated by Anna Gutowska

    What is M2M authentication?

  6. Oct 29

    Runtime security for AI agents

    This episode of Techsplainers explores runtime security for AI agents and explains why autonomous systems require deeper protection once they begin operating live across enterprise environments. Building on earlier discussions of nonhuman identities, accountability and runtime risk, the episode focuses on the unique security challenges created when agents reason, decide, execute actions and adapt continuously. It examines the unpredictable action loop at the center of agentic AI, where seemingly simple tasks can expand into tool orchestration, dynamic data access, emergent decisions and multi-agent interactions. From there, the discussion looks at key runtime threats, including agents acting with excessive permissions, untrusted data shaping decisions and goal drift over time. The episode also introduces the A2AS framework and its five foundational control elements, then walks through four critical defense layers: perception, reasoning, action and memory. Along the way, listeners learn how semantic firewalls, dynamic credentials, out-of-band approvals and state protection can help keep agent behavior bounded and accountable. The result is a practical view of how runtime security helps organizations move from AI capability to trusted AI operations. Find more information at https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/agentic-ai-runtime-security Find all the Techsplainers episodes here https://www.ibm.biz/techsplainers-podcast Narrated by Anna Gutowska

    Runtime security for AI agents

  7. Oct 28

    What is runtime security?

    This episode of Techsplainers explores runtime security and explains why it has become a critical response to the AI and nonhuman identity risks discussed earlier in the series. As applications, workloads, machine identities and AI agents operate live in production, organizations need security controls that can detect misuse, enforce boundaries and respond in real time. The episode follows how runtime security works and explains proactive measures such as process isolation, network segmentation, secure networking and identity-focused controls that help reduce the blast radius of compromise before an attack spreads. Special attention is given to cloud-native environments, where ephemeral workloads and complex microservices make predeployment inspection less reliable, and to generative AI, which has increased the speed of vulnerability discovery and exploitation. The episode also examines why runtime security is especially important for AI agents, whose nondeterministic behavior, tool-calling capabilities and autonomy create risks that often only appear during live execution. Find more information at https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/runtime-security Find all the Techsplainers episodes here https://www.ibm.biz/techsplainers-podcast Narrated by Anna Gutowska

    What is runtime security?

  8. Oct 27

    The AI accountability gap

    This episode of Techsplainers explores the AI accountability gap and why it has become a defining governance challenge for runtime security. As AI agents move beyond simple automation and begin executing business actions across enterprise systems, organizations must answer harder questions about authority, approval and responsibility. The episode explains how agentic AI changes the identity model by introducing continuous action, delegated authority, short-lived identities and decision-making across trust boundaries. It examines why traditional identity and access management approaches fall short when applied to autonomous agents, leading to over-privileged access, invisible delegation, weak runtime enforcement and poor incident reconstruction. Listeners learn why the real shift is from treating identity as a login problem to treating identity as an authority problem. The discussion also covers the need to connect identity, policy, secrets and runtime enforcement so organizations can prove who approved an action, under what conditions and for how long. Along the way, the episode looks at audit pressure, regulatory expectations and the practical security risks of deploying agents without clear accountability controls. Find more information at https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/accountability-gap-autonomous-ai Find all the Techsplainers episodes here https://www.ibm.biz/techsplainers-podcast Narrated by Anna Gutowska

    The AI accountability gap
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Introducing the Techsplainers by IBM podcast, your new podcast for quick, powerful takes on today’s most important AI and tech topics. Each episode brings you bite-sized learning designed to fit your day, whether you’re driving, exercising, or just curious for something new. This is just the beginning. Tune in every weekday at 6 AM ET for fresh insights, new voices, and smarter learning. Visit podcast page: https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/techsplainers

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  • Creator
    IBM
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    260
  • Rating
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    © ibm2026
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