Built For Trust With Nick Lippis

Nick Lippis

The Built for Trust Podcast will explore the critical elements of creating trusted enterprise infrastructures that are reliable, scalable, secure, and cost efficient. Join your host, Nick Lippis, as he delves into the intricacies of building a reliable and secure IT foundation while streamlining the complexities that have emerged in the rapidly evolving technological landscape. In this podcast series, Nick and his guests will navigate the challenges faced by enterprises as they strive to meet the demands of a dynamic business environment. The focus will be on constructing infrastructure that not only aligns with an organization's objectives but also fosters trust and simplification in the enterprise’s digital journey.

  1. Fighting AI with AI: Security, Governance, and the Future of the Enterprise

    5d ago

    Fighting AI with AI: Security, Governance, and the Future of the Enterprise

    Cyber is the one disruption FedEx Freight can't route around. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Michael Milligan, CISO of FedEx Freight, to discuss how AI is reshaping enterprise security from the boardroom to the front lines of enterprise operations. Michael breaks down the two questions dominating board conversations today: how risk is being managed and how the company is leveraging AI to stay competitive. They explore why the traditional model of waiting on vendor roadmaps is breaking down, how AI is compressing development cycles from weeks to hours, and what that shift means for security teams responsible for managing risk and governance. Michael also shares how AI is transforming logistics at FedEx Freight, from routing and fleet efficiency to automated red teaming, and why he believes the only real defense against AI-powered threats is fighting AI with AI. New episodes of the Built for Trust Podcast come out every Thursday. Subscribe to get notified.

    27 min
  2. The Summer of Turbulence: How AI Is Rewriting Infrastructure Operations

    Jun 18

    The Summer of Turbulence: How AI Is Rewriting Infrastructure Operations

    This episode is part of a seven-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes released each month. Networking is entering its "summer of turbulence." Frontier AI models can now identify and exploit vulnerabilities in massive, decades-old codebases faster than traditional security and operations teams can respond. Cisco's Tom Gillis and Murali Gandluru join Nick Lippis to discuss what that means for the future of infrastructure operations. The conversation explores the shift from centralized monitoring to distributed, agent-driven visibility, why infrastructure teams will need to adopt CI/CD-style software lifecycle operating models, and how organizations can keep pace with a growing wave of AI-discovered vulnerabilities. Tom and Murali also demonstrate how Cisco is approaching the challenge through technologies such as Cisco Cloud Control, Nexus Dashboard, and Live Protect. They also examine the organizational changes that come with AgenticOps, from evolving NOC and SOC responsibilities to rethinking how infrastructure teams manage risk, change control, and lifecycle management. The discussion concludes with a look at digital twins, smart switches, autonomous operations, and the path toward infrastructure that can increasingly manage and protect itself. New episodes of the Built for Trust Podcast come out every Thursday. Subscribe to get notified.

    54 min
  3. AI Changed the Network: Inside the Ethernet Fabric Powering AI Infrastructure

    Jun 11

    AI Changed the Network: Inside the Ethernet Fabric Powering AI Infrastructure

    AI is pushing networking into territory it has never seen before. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Hasan Siraj, Vice President of Products at Broadcom, to talk about how AI workloads are rewriting the rules of Ethernet, optics, and data center architecture. They dig into why AI traffic is fundamentally different from traditional TCP/IP traffic. Think massive elephant flows instead of self-balancing streams, and what that means for load balancing, congestion, and reliability at scale. Hasan breaks down the three distinct networking challenges AI infrastructure demands: scale up, scale out, and scale across, and why each requires a different approach. On the hardware side, Hasan walks through Broadcom's latest silicon, including the Tomahawk 6, the only 100-terabit switch in production today, and explains why co-packaged optics are achieving reliability 10x better than pluggable alternatives. For enterprises watching from the sidelines, Hasan makes the case that the same innovations powering hyperscale AI clusters are now accessible at the scale most organizations actually need. New episodes of the Built for Trust Podcast come out every Thursday. Subscribe to get notified.

    24 min
  4. Hybrid AI Infrastructure and the Rise of Non-Human Identity

    Jun 4

    Hybrid AI Infrastructure and the Rise of Non-Human Identity

    Agents don't log in. They connect. And that changes everything about access control. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Tom Gillis of Cisco and Robert Kim of Presidio to discuss hybrid AI infrastructure and the operational challenges no one has fully solved yet. They explore why on-prem AI is becoming practical for enterprises that can't easily retrofit their data centers for liquid cooling, how Presidio built an agent framework that lets users switch between cloud and private models, and why Ethernet is emerging as the preferred fabric for enterprise AI infrastructure. Tom draws a direct line from infrastructure to security: agents have the access footprint of a human but none of the judgment, and today's access control frameworks weren't built for that. The network, he argues, is where non-human identity has to live and the only enforcement point organizations can truly rely on when agents begin operating at scale. Want to go deeper? Watch the related on-demand AI Networking Summit session, Hybrid AI Infrastructure and Agentic Ops Security in Practice: https://hubs.li/Q04jpjxF0 New episodes of the Built for Trust Podcast come out every Thursday. Subscribe to get notified.

    26 min
  5. The Token Economy: eBay's Build vs. Buy Playbook for AI

    May 28

    The Token Economy: eBay's Build vs. Buy Playbook for AI

    eBay has been running its own private cloud for decades. So when AI spending started accelerating, the calculus didn't change. It got more complicated. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with John Feldmeier, CIO at eBay, to talk about what a build-first philosophy actually means in the age of AI. They discuss why eBay is doing both, buying to move fast and bringing things in-house as usage scales, and what token economics looks like in practice when budgets are finite and model choices matter. John also addresses the tension showing up everywhere right now: boards pushing for speed, security teams pumping the brakes, and finance asking hard questions about ROI. And why, ultimately, the hardest part of AI adoption isn't the technology. It’s bringing people along with it. New episodes of the Built for Trust Podcast come out every Thursday. Subscribe to get notified. See you next week!

    28 min
  6. From Observability to Reasoning: How AI Is Transforming Network Operations

    May 21

    From Observability to Reasoning: How AI Is Transforming Network Operations

    Traditional tools can detect problems. They can’t reason about them. That gap is becoming one of the biggest challenges in enterprise network operations. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with David Mann, Global Services Leader at NetBrain, to discuss what AI-driven network operations actually looks like in practice. They explore why context and intent are foundational to effective automation, how standard changes and runbooks become the training ground for autonomous agents, and where human oversight still matters before organizations fully take humans out of the loop. Nick and David also get into the infrastructure question many enterprise teams are facing right now. As AI workloads reshape traffic patterns and operational complexity, what breaks first, and how should teams rethink network design for the next era of enterprise infrastructure? New episodes of the Built for Trust Podcast come out every Thursday. Subscribe to get notified. See you next week!

    35 min
  7. Who Let All the Agents In? Securing the Agentic Era

    May 7

    Who Let All the Agents In? Securing the Agentic Era

    This episode is part of a six-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes released each month. AI agents don't have passwords, MFA tokens, or biometrics. They're proliferating across enterprise environments faster than any technology we've seen before, often without IT even knowing they're there. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Cisco's Tom Gillis (SVP, Infrastructure & Security) and Matt Caulfield (VP, Identity) to unpack why securing the agentic era is fundamentally a networking problem and what organizations need to do about it now. Tom and Matt cover the case for a proxy-based gateway architecture that sits between agents and the resources they access, why traditional ACL-style rules won't work against agents clever enough to route around them, and why AI will ultimately be the only thing capable of policing AI at scale. If your organization is feeling pressure to move fast on agentic AI while keeping security intact, this episode is your starting point. New episodes of the Built for Trust Podcast come out every Thursday. Subscribe to get notified. See you next week!

    44 min
  8. Mythos and the Coming Patch Storm: Are You Ready?

    May 5

    Mythos and the Coming Patch Storm: Are You Ready?

    When an AI model can discover and exploit decades-old vulnerabilities in hours, enterprise security changes fast. In this episode, Nick Lippis is joined by Peter Campbell, Senior Director of Cloud Security at Cigna, and Dev Awasthi, AI Security Advisor at Accenture, to unpack what Anthropic’s Mythos model and Project Glasswing mean for enterprise defenders. They discuss how vulnerability timelines are collapsing from weeks to hours, why traditional patch management is reaching its limits, and why defending AI with AI is quickly becoming a requirement, not a choice. Peter and Dev introduce the idea of Digital Darwinism, where the organizations that adapt fastest will be the ones that keep up. The conversation also covers the human toll of alert fatigue, why agentic security needs to be built incrementally, and what separates organizations that pause from those that move forward. Nick, Peter, and Dev will continue this discussion at the AI Networking Summit in Dallas, May 13–14. Learn more and register to join the conversation: https://hubs.li/Q04fn4y90 New episodes of the Built for Trust Podcast come out every Thursday. Subscribe to get notified.

    41 min
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The Built for Trust Podcast will explore the critical elements of creating trusted enterprise infrastructures that are reliable, scalable, secure, and cost efficient. Join your host, Nick Lippis, as he delves into the intricacies of building a reliable and secure IT foundation while streamlining the complexities that have emerged in the rapidly evolving technological landscape. In this podcast series, Nick and his guests will navigate the challenges faced by enterprises as they strive to meet the demands of a dynamic business environment. The focus will be on constructing infrastructure that not only aligns with an organization's objectives but also fosters trust and simplification in the enterprise’s digital journey.

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