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KBKAST
Hosted by KBI.Media · EN
Unlike every other security podcast, we don’t get stuck down in the technical weeds. Our remit is to speak with experts around the globe at the strategic level – how security technology can improve the experience and risk optimisation for every organisation.
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From SAP Sapphire - KB On The Go | Legacy Risk and the AI Trust Gap
2d ago00:33:55Summary readyKB is on the ground at SAP Sapphire 2026 in Orlando, where AI has moved beyond experimentation and into the center of enterprise decision making. In this KB On The Go episode, Maura Hameroff (CMO, Cloud ERP Private and RISE with SAP) makes the case that modernizing your core is a business transformation decision rather than a technical upgrade, and that companies still running on legacy systems carry more operational and security risk than most realize. Then Ted Way, PhD (VP & Chief Product Officer, Business AI Product Engineering, SAP) walks through what responsible enterprise AI actually takes: a governance layer, real business process knowledge, and data you can trust. As he puts it, AI first without security first is just a faster way to a data breach. A grounded look at what it takes to move from AI pilots to AI at scale without cutting corners that come back to bite you.
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Episode 376 Deep Dive: Anna Wheeler | Synthetic Confidence - When the Board Believes the Machine
4d ago00:39:54Summary readyIn this episode, Anna Wheeler, CEO of SSAW LLC, joins KB as she explains why so many cyber teams are stuck in event-driven strategy while calling it the real thing, why the doers can’t climb out of it because their KPIs won’t let them, and why visionary CEOs keep getting ousted when the board can’t see what they see. Along the way: the CEOs quietly burning more AI tokens than anyone else in their company, vendors winning unicorn exits on marketing rather than technology, adversaries stealing encrypted data as a long game, and what happens when boards start making decisions on synthetic confidence. Her closing advice for leaders: get very comfortable with being uncomfortable, and go looking for the sources you’d normally avoid. About Anna: Anna Wheeler is a cybersecurity strategist and former Army Blackhawk crew chief who has spent the last two decades helping government and industry modernize how they secure missions, data, and critical infrastructure. She has led federal modernization and cyber campaigns across DHS and the wider national security community, shaping multi‑billion‑dollar technology portfolios and advancing cloud, Zero Trust, and AI‑driven approaches to resilience. As CEO of SSAW LLC and a trusted advisor to C‑suites, boards, and policymakers, Anna is known for turning buzzword-heavy innovation into pragmatic, mission‑aligned change. She serves on multiple advisory boards, mentors rising cyber leaders, and speaks frequently on moving from “FOMO to focus” in cybersecurity innovation. Keywords: AI strategy, CISO, board of directors, CEO, cybersecurity leadership, event-driven strategy, strategic thinking, synthetic confidence, AI bias, go-to-market, vendor marketing, Symantec, SBOM, harvest now decrypt later, cybersecurity podcast
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From Cisco Live 2026 Las Vegas – KB On The Go | AI-Speed Attacks and the Race to Quantum-Safe
1w ago00:32:36Summary readyRecorded at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, where 20,000 operators, engineers and executives gathered at Mandalay Bay to shape the future of networking, AI and cybersecurity. KB sits down with two Cisco leaders confronting the problems AI is creating and the infrastructure built to outlast them. Tom Gillis, SVP and GM of Cisco’s Infrastructure and Security Group, explains why the gap between a vulnerability being disclosed and exploited has collapsed from months to hours, and how Live Protect shields critical flaws between patches with no reboot and no downtime. Then Ramana Kompella, Head of Cisco Research and Cisco Fellow, makes the case for quantum networking over ever bigger quantum computers, unpacks the new Universal Quantum Switch, and explains why “harvest now, decrypt later” makes quantum safe infrastructure a today decision, not a 2029 one. Key topics: AI accelerated exploitation, vulnerability shielding and Live Protect, continuous infrastructure updates and digital twins, quantum networking, the Universal Quantum Switch, post quantum cryptography and CNSA 2.0, and the harvest now decrypt later threat.
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Episode 375 Deep Dive: John Deeb | Governance Theater - Why Your AI Policy Is Really Just a Set of Documents
2w ago00:40:06Summary readyJohn leads customer success, presales, and professional services across APAC at Workato and serves as Field CTO for the region. With more than twenty-five years of experience, including roles at Oracle and TIBCO and as co-founder of Rubicon Red, he focuses on helping enterprises unlock real, lasting value from AI and integration. In this episode of KBKast, John joins KB to unpack why 42% of AI initiatives were abandoned in 2025, up from 17% the year before, and why the answer isn’t the technology. It’s trust. John explains why AI is a bigger deal than cloud ever was: what used to be storage and processing is now decision and action inside core enterprise systems. He takes aim at “governance theater,” the steering committees and policy documents that create a feeling of control while nobody can actually see what an agent is doing. And he lands the warning every security leader needs to hear: you got away with over-provisioning access for humans, because humans never went looking. Agents will. Also covered: the tokenomics panic, 700% month-on-month cost blowouts, why AI shouldn’t re-map a purchase order every single time, who owns the agent when things go wrong, and why a central control plane is the only way to govern agents at scale. Keywords: AI agents, agentic AI, AI governance, governance theater, enterprise AI, AI security, control plane, observability, MCP, tokenomics, AI cost management, AI strategy, CISO, agent permissions, Workato, shadow AI, AI ROI, autonomous agents
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From Atmos SPHERE 2026 – KB On The Go | Global Instability, Vendor Accountability, and Why the Energy Sector Is Already Ahead
2w ago00:38:18Summary readyKB grabs the mic backstage at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos for two conversations that sit on either end of the same problem: how leaders should be thinking about risk in an unstable world, and what it actually looks like when a sector has been living that instability for years. First up, KB sits down with Chris Krebs, former Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). They get into the CISA cuts making headlines, why old assumptions baked into risk registers no longer hold, and the five cracks Chris sees forming in the foundation of modern risk management. He also breaks down why boards need to push vendors harder on third-party risk, and why cyber has become the opening move in every modern conflict. Then Tom Huth, Specialist in Energy Market Cyber Incident Coordination at AEMO, and Ryan McLaren, co-founder and COO of Retrospect Labs, bring it back to ground level. They unpack why the energy sector’s tight-knit supply chain has made it a genuine leader in cyber resilience, the difference between a tabletop exercise and a full functional simulation, and the trust problem nobody’s fully solved: how do you verify who’s really on the other end of the phone when your systems go down? A grounded look at what it takes to build real muscle memory before the bad day arrives.
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From SAP Sapphire - KB On The Go | AI Theater vs the Real Thing
2w ago00:35:03Summary readyKB is on the ground at SAP Sapphire in Orlando, where AI has officially moved beyond experimentation and into the core of enterprise decision making. In two conversations, Marielle Ehrmann (Chief Security, Compliance and Risk Officer, SAP) unpacks why AI governance has entered the boardroom as an accelerator rather than a brake, what separates responsible AI from AI theater, and why the biggest risk usually isn’t the model itself but the humans around it. Then Martin Merz (President Sovereign Cloud, SAP) explains why sovereign cloud has surged back into the conversation, the four dimensions SAP uses to define it, and why Australia’s pragmatic regulatory approach puts it among the top countries he works with globally. A grounded look at trust, governance and what it actually takes to innovate at enterprise scale. Keywords: AI governance, sovereign cloud, enterprise AI risk, digital sovereignty, responsible AI
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Episode 374 Deep Dive: Mark Jones | The Department of No Is Over - Why Cyber Has to Lead AI Adoption
3w ago00:40:07Summary readyMark Jones is Co Founder of MosaicalAI and has spent more than 25 years working across cybersecurity, technology risk, governance and resilience in complex environments where decisions need to be defensible and the cost of getting it wrong is high. His work sits at the intersection of security, business leadership and change. He helps organisations understand risk, build capability in their people, create practical operating models, and move with confidence when technology is changing faster than traditional governance can keep up. Today, Mark’s work is focused on AI. At MosaicalAI, he helps Australian organisations rebuild how teams work for the agentic era. His view is that every team runs on three things: people, technology and data, but most teams are still operating on a model built before AI. MosaicalAI maps how a team works today, builds the agentic version beside it, then rebuilds it with them. Mark’s approach is AI native and cybersecurity driven. He does not start with tools or generic productivity use cases. He starts with the team, the workflow, the data, the controls, the risks and the decisions that matter. The goal is practical AI capability that the organisation owns, understands and can govern. Cybersecurity is MosaicalAI’s first proof point because it is where AI adoption gets real quickly. Cyber teams already understand risk, evidence, accountability, control and resilience. When they use AI to improve triage, reporting, exposure management, control mapping, evidence gathering and decision support, they are better placed to guide safe AI adoption across the broader business. Mark believes AI cannot simply be bolted onto an organisation. It needs ownership, guardrails, evidence, accountability, resilience and control from day one. He is a Certified Information Security Manager and Certified Information Systems Security Professional, combining practical executive experience with globally recognised security credentials.
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From Cisco Live 2026 Las Vegas - KB On The Go | Agents, Attacks, and the Invisible Threat
3w ago00:34:07Summary readyRecorded at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, where 20,000 operators, engineers and executives gathered at Mandalay Bay to shape the future of networking, AI and cybersecurity. KB sits down with two Cisco security leaders on the front lines of agentic AI. Peter Bailey, SVP and GM of Cisco Security, breaks down why the security frameworks built over the last 20 years weren’t designed for machine-speed agents, and what governance actually needs to look like now. Then Amy Chang, Head of AI Threat Intelligence and Security Research, reveals how adversarial attacks are moving beyond text into images and audio in ways that are invisible to the human eye but not to your agents. Key topics: agentic AI governance, prompt injection and jailbreaks, multimodal attack vectors, MCP security gaps, identity in AI environments, security by design, and the post-Mythos threat landscape.
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From Atmos SPHERE 2026 - KB On The Go | Everyone's Business: Cyber Resilience from Government to Ground Level
3w ago00:40:15Summary readyKB grabs the mic backstage at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos for two conversations that couldn’t look more different on the surface, but end up pointing at the same thing: where cyber threats really come from, and who’s pushing back. First up, KB sits down with Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness, Australia’s National Cybersecurity Coordinator, and Steph Way, Director of the National Office of Cybersecurity. They get into what those 60 actions under Horizon 1 actually delivered, how limited use legislation is changing the way businesses talk to government after an incident, and why cyber resilience can’t just sit with the technical few — it has to be something every Australian feels some ownership of. Then James Taliento, CEO of AFTRDRK, and Jeremy Kirk, Director of Intelligence at Okta, bring it down to ground level. Cybercrime-as-a-service has made it possible for almost anyone with a internet connection to get in the game, and the latest wave of threat actors isn’t in it for ideology or even the money. It’s the thrill, the bragging rights, and a kind of rockstar lifestyle that’s being actively sold to a younger generation. It’s a candid, practical chat about what all of that means for defenders today.
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Episode 373 Deep Dive: Pete Harteveld | The Digital Insider - Why Your AI Agents Are the Threat You Didn't Hire
4w ago00:40:25Summary readyPete Harteveld was appointed CEO of Exabeam in October 2025 and most recently served as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer. He has more than two decades of leadership experience having built a reputation for scaling revenue and building high-performing global teams across the cybersecurity and technology sectors. Pete played a pivotal role in uniting Exabeam and LogRhythm in 2024, leveraging his deep expertise in mergers and acquisitions to drive a seamless integration and maximise stakeholder value. His earlier career included leadership roles at Aryaka, Veracode, Compuware, and Deloitte, where he guided complex integrations, redefined go-to-market strategies, and delivered measurable impact for customers and partners alike. At Exabeam, Harteveld is focused on advancing the mission to secure the world from cyberthreats. His leadership centers on empowering customers with cutting-edge solutions, fostering innovation that drives business outcomes, and cultivating a culture of excellence that inspires teams to achieve their best.
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