Ali Waezzadah from iCOUNTER joins theCUBE host Jon Oltsik for anotrher episode of The Cybersecurity Bridge

Rick Howard of Cybersecurity Canon Project, chief executive officer, joins Jon Oltsik of theCUBE Research on The Cybersecurity Bridge podcast. Howard presents a shift-from-prevention-to-resilience thesis and discusses agentic artificial intelligence, referred to below as AI, for automated risk calculations, probability-based risk assessment for material events, threat intelligence, and the value of cybersecurity literature and history for practitioners.Key takeaways include reframing objectives toward resilience to survive the attack and practical steps for leaders and chief information security officers, referred to below as CISO. Howard outlines top-down control prioritization and the diminishing returns of tool sprawl. They highlight the emerging role of agentic AI in risk scoring and control orchestration. Operational imperatives include reliable backups, restore procedures and chaos engineering to maintain business continuity.Listen to the full episode of The Cybersecurity Bridge podcast for a deeper examination of cyber resilience, agentic AI, probability-based risk assessment and threat intelligence.

Karim Toubba of LastPass brings decades of cybersecurity leadership to this episode of The Cybersecurity Bridge. Jon Oltsik of theCUBE Research hosts a focused conversation on identity, passkeys and artificial intelligence. Toubba shares experience as a chief executive in identity and password management and they present strategic implications for enterprise security.The discussion covers identity and access management and passkeys. It examines password management evolution, AI integration, agentic and non-human identities and LastPass' browser-based visibility and control capabilities for software as a service and AI applications.Toubba emphasizes that organizations should treat identity as the foundational control plane and prepare for a multi-year transition from passwords to passkeys while supporting mixed authentication during the shift. They recommend planning for identity governance, seamless user experience and migration tooling as key factors to consider.Oltsik emphasizes visibility-first approaches. They advise continuous browser and software as a service visibility, clear AI acceptable-use policies and policy-driven just-in-time access to manage agentic identities.This episode provides actionable guidance for security leaders on IAM, passwordless strategies, passkey adoption, agentic non-human identity management and browser-based control for SaaS and AI workloads.

Vince Peeler of Enlighten Intelligence joins Jon Oltsik of theCUBE Research for a discussion on designing and maturing cyber threat intelligence, CTI and the use of artificial intelligence, AI to augment analyst capabilities and bridge current practices to future threat-informed defenses.Peeler draws on naval and intelligence experience and their book The Intelligence Pyramid to explain top-down approaches, mitigation priorities such as MITRE ATT&CK and the Pyramid of Pain and how governance, people and processes shape operational CTI. They describe program requirements, dissemination strategies and analyst training that support actionable intelligence across incident response, threat hunting and digital risk management.Key takeaways include guidance on defining clear requirements and tailored dissemination, establishing feedback loops and treating CTI as an organizational function. Peeler emphasizes that artificial intelligence, AI augments human analysts rather than replaces them by helping detect weak signals and operate at adversary speed. Oltsik emphasizes CTI as an ongoing conversation between analysts and leadership to improve decision support and reduce risk.

MK Palmore of Apogee Global RMS is founder and principal advisor and brings decades of federal and private sector cybersecurity experience, including 32 years in US government service and leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud. Jon Oltsik of theCUBE Research hosts the Cybersecurity Bridge podcast and interviews Palmore on mid-market cybersecurity strategy, artificial intelligence adoption and risk management.The conversation examines Zero Trust fundamentals, managed security service providers and managed detection and response, fractional virtual chief information security officer models, practical artificial intelligence use cases for security operations centers, and governance risk and compliance considerations. Topics also cover identity and access management and Center for Internet Security controls, security operations center operations and public private information sharing.Key takeaways include Palmore's emphasis on returning to cybersecurity fundamentals as strategic priorities. They recommend that small and medium-sized businesses partner with managed security service providers and managed detection and response providers and adopt fractional virtual chief information security officer leadership. Oltsik and they advise that artificial intelligence is most effective as an augmenting tool for security operations center triage, alert enrichment and workflow automation, and that organizations establish governance risk and compliance processes, conduct risk assessment, and pursue public private information sharing.

Vlad Babiuk of Stellar Cyber, director of technical product marketing, joins Jon Oltsik of theCUBE Research on The Cybersecurity Bridge to examine security operations, artificial intelligence referred to as AI, open extended detection and response referred to as XDR, autonomous security operations centers referred to as SOC, telemetry strategies and market consolidation. The discussion highlights AI-native and autonomous SOC architectures, unified data pipelines and identity-aware telemetry as critical factors for modern threat detection and response.Babiuk draws on product marketing and operational experience to explore data pipelines, agentic architectures and identity context and to explain how AI reshapes threat detection, investigation and response workflows. They emphasize open telemetry and unified data pipelines as essential for accurate AI-driven detection and investigation. Oltsik observes that autonomous SOCs change analyst roles and create demand for AI-aware skills while managed security service providers and managed detection and response providers can leverage automation to scale more efficiently.