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Organizations excel at generating massive volumes of unstructured data through recorded meetings. The struggle lies in extracting value from it. The reality is that most of this data is never touch again after its created. The temporal nature of voice communication creates unique challenges. These conversations capture real-time insights and concerns that are highly valuable for immediate decision-making. But traditional data management approaches fail to surface actionable intelligence before it becomes stale.

In this episode, Joe Essenfeld, CEO and co-founder at FORA, explains how their platform addresses these challenges by automatically processing recorded meetings to generate personalized, contextual summaries while maintaining strict data privacy controls. Joining him are Howard Holton, CEO at GigaOm, and Derek Fisher, Director of Cyber Defense at Temple University. The conversation explores how FORA’s AI-powered personalization engine creates individualized meeting cards based on organizational context and project involvement. The platform implements sophisticated filtering to remove personal banter and protects sensitive information through automated labeling systems that can detect IP discussions, HR-sensitive content, and accidental recordings.

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In this episode, Rob Allen, chief product officer at ThreatLocker, explains how their Storage Control solution addresses these challenges by implementing program-level access restrictions that work alongside traditional user permissions. Joining him are Jonathan Waldrop, CISO-at-large, and Nick Ryan, former CISO at RSM.

The conversation explores how ThreatLocker's endpoint-focused approach applies default-deny principles not just to what programs can run, but to what data they can access. This allows users to work normally while preventing unauthorized programs from reaching sensitive information. This streamlined block-request-approve process can resolve access needs within 60 seconds.

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Asset visibility remains a persistent challenges in cybersecurity. Despite working on this challenge for decades, CISOs continue to struggle with knowing what assets exist in their environments, where they’re located, and what risks they present.

The problem has only intensified with dynamic cloud resources spinning up and down in seconds, APIs proliferating across environments, and third-party integrations creating complex dependency chain. Traditional scanning tools simply can’t keep pace.

In this episode, Franz Fiorim, Field CTO at Trend Micro, explains how their Cyber Risk Exposure Management (CREME) solution addresses these challenges through continuous asset discovery and risk prioritization across the entire attack surface.

Joining him are Krista Arndt, Associate CISO at St. Luke’s University Health Network, and Brett Conlon, CISO at American Century Investments.

They discuss how CREME consolidates external attack surface management, cloud security posture management, and vulnerability remediation into a unified platform that discovers hidden assets through multiple methods including agentless cloud integrations, network discovery sensors, and third-party API connections.

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Most data breaches don't happen because attackers are geniuses. They happen because organizations give too much access to too many people for far too long. Despite decades of security frameworks and best practices, enforcing least privilege remains one of cybersecurity's most persistent challenges. The culprit isn't technology: it's politics.

In this episode, Mokhtar Bacha, CEO of Formal, discusses how their granular privilege access management solution operates at the packet level to enforce least privilege across databases and APIs.

Joining him are Howard Holton, COO and industry analyst at GigaOm, and Arvin Bansal, a Fortune 100 veteran CSO. The conversation tackles the truth about why access management fails, explores how AI agents are exploding the identity landscape, and examines whether automated policy enforcement can finally solve the political friction that has plagued privilege management for years.

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In this episode, Simone Rapizzi, CSO at RedCarbon, explains how their AI-powered platform uses specialized models to automate threat detection and response while learning from each customer's unique environment. Joining him are Jonathan Waldrop, former CISO, and John Scrimsher, CISO at Kontoor Brands.

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In this episode, Matt Hillary, CISO at Drata, explains how their AI-native trust management platform addresses these challenges by automating evidence collection from integrated systems and reducing manual effort by over 90%. Joining him are Mike Lockhart, CISO at EagleView, and Johna Till Johnson, CEO at Nemertes.

We talk about how Drata’s platform bridges the policy-execution gap through hundreds of out-of-the-box integrations, AI-assisted questionnaire responses that handle 90% of vendor due diligence automatically, and real-time control monitoring that enables GRC teams to operate more like security operations centers, responding quickly to control failures rather than simply passing audits.

SIEM costs are spiraling out of control for organizations. Increasing log volumes, longer compliance-driven retention requirements, and the habit of collecting everything "just in case," the list goes on.

Traditional SIEM architecture forces painful choices between cost control and security visibility, with teams constantly fighting to keep log volumes down while still maintaining adequate coverage for investigations.

In this episode, Cliff Crosland, co-founder and CEO of Scanner, explains how their data lake approach can reduce SIEM costs by 80-90% while giving organizations full custody of their data in their own cloud storage. Joining him are Nick Espinosa, host of the Deep Dive Radio Show, and Howard Holton, COO and industry analyst at GigaOm.

In this episode:

• Data retention policies
• The fundamental challenge of managing growing log volumes over time
• How AI copilots are bridging the gap between security analysts and software engineers in detection workflows.

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Security awareness is critical to cultivate in your organization. But security awareness training can often miss the mark. Traditional training is slow and reactive. As deepfakes and LLM-enhanced attacks become common, organizations need training solutions that can adapt and provide relevant training.

In this episode, Brian Long, CEO of Adaptive Security, explains how their platform provides engaging training that can be customized in a matter of minutes. Joining him are Janet Heins, CISO at ChenMed, and Gary Chan, CISO at SSM Health.

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And now, with Adaptive’s new AI Content Creator, security teams can instantly transform breaking threat intel or updated policy docs into interactive, multilingual training — no instructional design needed. That means faster compliance, better engagement, and less risk.

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