You bought a product. It's running a process you never designed.

Episode 13 is the audio cut of Pulse #13 — Jim Langevin's decade-old line applied to the thing most boards are still debating. Host Jane walks through why AI coding agents aren't the tool your vendor sold you — they're an autonomous process with network egress, shell access, and more trust than any intern — and why nobody in your org can name the person accountable for what they do.

Plus: ADT's third breach in two years (SSO vishing → Salesforce → ten million records), a new OAuth phishing toolkit that bypasses passkeys entirely, and why banning AI assistants is the worst move your board could make.

→ Signal Score: echocyber.io/assessment

→ Newsletter: signal.echocyber.io

Editorial: Mike Faas, fractional CTO/CISO at Echo Cyber. Voice by ElevenLabs.

Your Identity program isn't an Identity problem.

NOTE: Episode numbering matches the Signal vs. Noise newsletter — this podcast launched when the newsletter was at Pulse #12. Audio episodes align one-to-one with newsletter issues.

Episode 12 is the audio cut of Pulse #12 — the cascade argument applied to the one domain that drags nine others down with it.

Host Jane walks through why weak identity quietly pulls AppSec, Incident Response, Compliance, and AI Governance into the same grave, why CrowdStrike's latest numbers — eighty-two percent malware-free, twenty-seven-second breakout — mean your perimeter is watching the wrong door, and why buying another IAM product makes the cascade worse, not better.

This is the episode where the Signal Score goes live. Fifteen minutes. Free. It maps the cascade shape inside your own program.

→ Signal Score: echocyber.io/assessment

→ Newsletter: signal.echocyber.io

Editorial: Mike Faas, fractional CTO/CISO at Echo Cyber. Voice by ElevenLabs.

Start here. Episode 0 is the orientation episode — five minutes that lays out the editorial spine for Signal vs. Noise.

Security doesn't fail in silos. It fails in cascades. Host Jane walks through why most security failures trace back to leaders treating complex systems like complicated ones — and why the frameworks that decompose security into independent domains structurally hide the cascades that actually take programs down.

Running order: the premise, the thesis, the show's cadence, and where to find the Signal Score assessment.

→ Signal Score (free, 15 minutes): echocyber.io/assessment

→ Newsletter: signal.echocyber.io

→ Website: echocyber.io

Editorial: Mike Faas, fractional CTO/CISO at Echo Cyber. Voice by ElevenLabs.