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[PODCAST] ANALYST YELLS AT CLOUD

Get closer to the people who understand where threat actors are today — and where they are likely headed tomorrow.

What’s the fastest way for information sharing to fail? Make it too big to trust.

For something a little different

Last week, I sat down with some old friends to yell at the cloud. What did we learn in years past that needs to be applied to todays AI driven game. Where did information sharing efforts fail, and how do we adapt them in this new era..

Join myself, Dan Larkin (ex-FBI, NCFTA, PNC), Tom Grasso (ex-FBI, Qintel SuperStar) and Sean Zadig (ex-NASA/OIG, Google T&S, Yahoo CISO) for the start of a much longer conversation, making it personal.

Make it too big to trust.

That was one of the clearest lessons from our "Make it Personal" conversation.

Cyber defense does not move forward because another vendor says “visibility.” It moves forward when the right people compare notes before the pattern becomes a headline.

[FORECAST] Iran-Linked Cyber Risk Is Real. The Evidence Bar Is Harder (Updated: 2026-05-14)

The forecast is 29%, but the operational risk is still worth preparing for this week.

[SIGNALS WEEKLY] Edge Access, False Flags, and Emerging AI Attack Surfaces

The edge box blinked. PAN-OS, Ivanti, Teams lures, ClickFix, AI agents. Different doors. Same ugly pattern: access keeps hiding in the plumbing. The boring surface became the breach path.

[FORECAST] Will Akira trigger a week-long hospital disruption by end of 2026? (Updated 2026-05-11)

We’re revising the Akira hospital disruption forecast down to 2%. The risk is real, but the question is narrower than it looks.

[FORECAST] Device-Bound Sessions Are Coming. Defaults Are the Hard Part.

“Secure by default” sounds great until it meets BYOD, VDI, federated SSO, and the help desk exception list from hell. Device-bound sessions help. Waiting for every SaaS vendor to flip the default is not a strategy.