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The Catalyst by SoftchoiceAuthor: Softchoice
A documentary-style podcast about how IT leaders tackle high-stakes transformations.Each episode weaves together real voices, expert insights, and compelling narratives that reveal universal challenges and practical wisdom.Season 7: "Small Teams, Big Dreams" explores the human stories behind IT transformationsfrom AI adoption experiments to burnout crises, from toxic job markets to infrastructure decisions that matter. These aren't polished case studies. These are authentic accounts from IT professionals navigating the same impossible gaps between expectations and resources that you face every day.From Softchoice, a World Wide Technology company. Language: en-us Genres: Business, Management, Technology Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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The AI Strikes Back Episode: Finally Fixing Security's Fundamentals
Thursday, 3 September, 2026
This summer, an AI agent escaped its testing sandbox, crossed the internet, and spent four and a half days inside another company's production servers. Roughly seventeen thousand actions. No human at the keyboard.Sounds scary, right? But the same power the attackers have is now available to defenders too. And it's arriving just as the oldest excuse in security runs out. Jason Maynard, Field CTO for Cybersecurity at Cisco, and Robert Geis, Field CTO for Global Cyber at World Wide Technology, unpack why unpatched vulnerabilities just overtook stolen credentials for the first time in nineteen years, why the fundamentals kept getting deferred, and how IT leaders can put AI to work closing the gap.Support our sponsor:This episode is brought to you by Cisco. Learn how to reduce risk, strengthen your security posture, and stay one step ahead of emerging threats at softchoice.com/cisco-security.In this episode:• Why the year's most alarming AI attack would have been caught by just doing the basics• The reframe that turns security from the department of no into the reason the business can move fastNarrated by guest host Joseph Byer.#Cybersecurity #AISecurity #ITLeadership #ZeroTrust #MidMarketIT #AgenticAI #ThePodcastForITLeadersShow Notes & Resources• Jason Maynard, Field CTO, Cybersecurity — Cisco• Robert Geis, Field CTO, Global Cyber — World Wide Technology• Cisco LLM Security Le`aderboard — public rankings of model security, safety and robustness: leaderboard.aidefense.cisco.com/rankings• Cisco AI Defense — AI asset discovery, model validation, agentic red-teaming: cisco.com/site/us/en/products/security/ai-defense/index.html• WWT ARMOR (AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience), developed with NVIDIA: wwt.com/atc-capabilities/ai-readiness-model-for-operational-resilience/overview• 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report: verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/• Black Hat USA 2026 — “The ‘Breaking’ News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident”: youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY• Cisco security solutions through Softchoice: softchoice.com/cisco-securityThe Catalyst by Softchoice is the podcast dedicated to exploring the intersection of humans and technology.
