In this episode of Robots and Red Tape, host Nick Schutt sits down with Austin Keller, Director of Data Science at IntelliDyne, for a grounded conversation on why critical systems still run on DOS, floppies, and “version 15 final redo,” and why most AI projects start in the wrong place.

Drawing on manufacturing, Navy, DOJ, and VA work, Austin argues you start with the business problem—not the shiny tool—and that security is step zero.

Key topics:

• Why “if it works, don’t mess with it” leaves agencies on 20–30-year-old stacks
• Starting with the job to be done, not “we want AI”
• Data that will not talk to other data—and why that is by design
• Coding agents that can read COBOL and Fortran when the last developer is gone
• Where AI ROI actually shows up: repetitive tasks, small agents, and UI that saves keystrokes

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In this episode of Robots and Red Tape, host Nick Schutt sits down with Monica Landen, SVP and Chief Information Security Officer at Diligent (an AI leader in governance, risk, and compliance), for a grounded conversation on data, deception, and the next wave of AI risk.

Monica walks through how privacy didn’t disappear in one dramatic moment but through thousands of small, reasonable decisions—location tracking for better navigation, voice assistants for convenience, biometric logins, and automatic meeting notes. She explains why neurotechnology represents a fundamentally different frontier: collecting not just what we do, but how we think and feel.

The discussion covers AI agents that treat problem-solving as their prime directive (sometimes breaking out of sandboxes or deleting databases), the growing sophistication of deepfakes, the rise of long-term AI-powered relationship scams, and why media literacy and early education matter more than ever. Monica also shares what keeps her up at night as a CISO and why security teams are ultimately in the business of selling trust.

A practical, no-hype look at the controls we still have time to build—before the technology outruns our ability to govern it.

Key topics:

• The cumulative loss of privacy through everyday convenience features
• AI agents as new employees (and threat vectors) that can pivot ruthlessly
• Deepfakes reaching the point where “seeing is no longer believing”
• Relationship-based AI scams that last months or years
• Why CISOs must sell security stories—and why bringing them in early accelerates innovation

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In this episode of Robots and Red Tape, our host Nick Schutt sits down with Varun Badhwar, Founder & CEO of Endor Labs, to unpack the security implications of the AI coding explosion.

Varun shares why this wave feels fundamentally different from the cloud shift he saw with RedLock/Prisma Cloud, how AI agents have turned 20–30 million developers into 200–300 million potential coders, and why we’re now generating 100x–1000x more code—much of it carrying the same insecure patterns the models learned from open source.

They dig into:

-The shift from code generation as the bottleneck to verification, quality, scale, and security -

Why even frontier models produce only ~20% secure code (per Endor’s CMU/Columbia benchmark)

-Democratization of cyber warfare: attacks that once took years now take hours

-Open-source realities—80% of software, average 77 transitive dependencies, low maintainer response rates, and intentional malware campaigns

-How Endor Labs embeds security oversight directly into agentic workflows so fixes happen at assembly time, not after shipping

-Practical paths for large enterprises sitting on millions of findings to burn down real risk without bankrupting themselves on pure-AI token costs

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