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In this episode, Jamie Zajac, Chief Product Officer at Recorded Future, explains how autonomous threat operations can close this gap by automatically deploying intelligence across security controls at machine speed. Joining him are Dan Holden, CISO at Commerce, and Arvin Bansal, CISO at C&S Wholesale Grocers.

• Why do organizations still struggle to operationalize threat intelligence despite massive investments?
• How does threat intelligence translate into board-level metrics that demonstrate business impact?
• What do autonomous threat operations mean and how do they differ from traditional threat intelligence?
• How can intelligence drive faster incident response and more efficient SOC operations?
• Why third-party risk intelligence matters more than vendor questionnaire scores?
• How AI is changing the threat landscape and what defenders should prioritize?
• What does the future of threat intelligence look like in two years?
• How to use intelligence for policy decisions and budget building, not just tactical blocking?

A huge thanks to our sponsor, Recorded Future

Recorded Future is the world's largest threat intelligence company, serving 1,900+ organizations across 80 countries. Its Intelligence Graph® contains 200+ billion nodes of threat data, combining AI analytics with autonomous capabilities to transform manual threat intelligence into automated Intelligence Operations across security ecosystems. Recorded Future was acquired by Mastercard (NYSE: MA) in 2024. Learn more at https://pages.recordedfutureext.com/

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In this episode, Alastair Paterson, CEO and co-founder at Harmonic Security, explains how Harmonic Protect addresses these challenges by securing workforce AI adoption through browser-based visibility, endpoint agents, and MCP gateways. Joining him are Ross Young, co-host at CISO Tradecraft, and Johna Till Johnson, CEO and founder at Nemertes.

• Why are enterprises still struggling with AI governance despite years of motivation to solve it?
• How does Harmonic keep pace with 50,000+ AI products when the landscape changes monthly?
• What's the difference between visibility, coaching, and blocking in AI governance?
• How do you implement AI controls without creating thousands of new alerts for security teams?
• Where does Harmonic fit in the multi-step process of setting policy, monitoring compliance, and enforcement?
• How can CISOs measure the ROI of AI governance tools and benchmark against industry peers?
• What's Harmonic's strategy with secure AI browsers?
• Why should AI browsers be blocked by default in the enterprise?
• What should CISOs prioritize for AI security in 2026?

In this episode, Peter Worth, founder, president, and CEO at Athena Security, explains how their security operations platform addresses these challenges through unified detection and response. Joining him are Jason Taule, CISO at Luminous Health, and Will Gregorian, head of security at Galileo Medical.

• Why are security teams still struggling with alert fatigue despite decades of awareness?
• How does security product fragmentation create blind spots in enterprise defense?
• What's the difference between indicators of compromise and indicators of attack?
• How do AI anomaly detection systems avoid declaring malicious activity "normal"?
• What strategies prevent model drift and adversarial poisoning in AI-based threat detection?
• Why does each client need their own behavioral baseline model?
• How do open source foundations impact enterprise security platform reliability?
• Why are CISOs increasingly held personally accountable for security incidents?

Huge thanks to our episode sponsor, Athena Security Group

Athena Security Group delivers a best in class, AI enabled, Cyber Defense solution (SIEM, EDR, XDR & MDR) on top of Wazuh's award winning open-source SIEM/EDR platform, synthesizing and consolidating cyber security alert management and response across the entire security operations landscape, facilitating intelligent and efficient cybersecurity decision making and response for the modern enterprise, table stakes in the age of AI.