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Your AI initiative gets the green light. But now all the parameters and guardrails you built into your plan need to be executed. Who owns AI once it goes live? Who’s watching as AI use expands? And if the AI workflow fails, can anyone still run the process it replaced? In this episode, Maria Haight, Global Information Security Officer at Joyson Safety Systems, joins Dustin Childs to unpack the operational realities of AI security. She advocates for preserving human know-how, assigning business ownership, and backing up critical data to keep the business running should an AI system fail or dare we say it, go rogue. You’ll learn: Why you need to plan for AI failure before implementation begins How to keep approved AI initiatives accountable, monitored, and focused on delivering value What questions to ask LLM providers and security vendors about data use, retention and costs before surprises force a change in strategy Why stick around:  Get concrete guidance on the critical decisions and safeguards to put in place before implementing AI to protect business continuity. Episode resources: Ep 4: Is your Enterprise AI strategy deliver ROI?: https://go.trendaisecurity.com/enterprise-ai-roi  Securing the AI enterprise (2026 study): https://go.trendaisecurity.com/global-ai-study  Maria Haight on LinkedIn  Dustin Childs on LinkedIn  ⁠Johnny Hand on LinkedIn TrendAI on LinkedIn About AI Security Brief AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait. About TrendAI™ TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.

The “AI trust paradox” in cybersecurity goes like this: organizations invest in AI automation, then hold back from fully implementing it. Yet as attackers continue to use AI to move faster, defenders need to leverage AI to fix things as fast as it finds them.  In this episode, Tyler Shields, Chief Marketing Officer at Allstacks and a cybersecurity industry analyst with more than 25 years advising security vendors and teams, shares the steps needed to build trust in autonomous remediation without sacrificing human judgment and control.  You’ll learn: How enterprise-specific context, not just CVE severity, should drive AI-based prioritization  Where to automate with no human in the loop, and where risk still demands human sign-off before anything ships  Why Tyler recommends tackling one flaw class at a time (not a full autonomous rollout),  and how to avoid a key mistake CISOs make when communicating to the board Why stick around:  Get a practical starting point for automated remediation in your organization and the trust-building playbook Tyler borrows from an unlikely source, Windows auto-updates. Episode resources: https://www.allstacks.com/  The Enterprise Guide to Governing Autonomous AI Agents: https://go.trendaisecurity.com/ai-agent-governance  Aftershocks: The Hidden Cost of Speed at Scale — 1H 2026 State of AI Security: https://go.trendaisecurity.com/state-of-ai-security-1h2026  ⁠Tyler Shields on LinkedIn  Dustin Childs on LinkedIn  Johnny Hand on LinkedIn TrendAI on LinkedIn About AI Security Brief AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait. About TrendAI™ TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.

In traditional IT, isolating a compromised endpoint can stop an attack. In operational technology (OT) environments, that same action could disrupt control of a pipeline, cause a rupture, or trigger environmental damage. That’s why adopting AI in critical infrastructure requires a fundamentally different security approach. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience across energy, pipelines, aerospace, and defense, Jason Cradit, CTO and CISO at Everline, explains how security leaders can move beyond blanket restrictions and establish practical AI governance and guardrails. You’ll learn: Why “no AI” policies can fuel shadow AI instead of preventing it How security leaders can chart a path toward secure, responsible AI adoption How to build effective AI guardrails around real business and operational use cases Why stick around:  Discover how to move beyond a “no AI” mandate and harness AI’s value without compromising the safety and availability of critical infrastructure. Episode resources: The AI Security Playbook for Industrial and Energy Are you ready for NERC CIP-015? Jason Cradit on LinkedIn Dustin Childs on LinkedIn ⁠Johnny Hand on LinkedIn TrendAI on LinkedIn About AI Security Brief AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait. About TrendAI™ TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.

There's no silver bullet when it comes to AI security strategy, and treating one model, tool, or vendor as the answer can limit an organization’s ability to adapt.  Morgan Adamski, who leads PwC’s Cyber, Data & Technology Risk practice, joins us to tackle two pressing questions: How should organizations choose between closed frontier models and open-weight alternatives? And how can they build a multi-model architecture flexible enough to keep pace as AI technology rapidly evolves?  Drawing on her work with boards, CISOs, and security teams, Morgan cuts through the “paralysis by analysis” surrounding these questions and offers security leaders a practical path forward.   You'll learn:  Why the choice between closed and open-weight models isn’t binary   How a multi-model architecture can improve agility, cost efficiency, and resilience  Why data structure and data readiness for AI are critical before bolting AI onto a “Frankenstein” architecture  Why mastering enterprise security fundamentals for AI is the highest-leverage move your team can make. Why stick around:  Morgan shares clear guidance for making confident AI model decisions while preserving model-use flexibility, strengthening security, and helping your organization keep pace with rapid innovation.    Episode resources:  Morgan Adamski on LinkedIn Frontier AI: The future of AI-driven cybersecurity When every weakness is visible: Leadership in the age of AI-exposed risk Related episode: Who governs your AI agents? Dustin Childs on LinkedIn ⁠Johnny Hand on LinkedIn TrendAI on LinkedIn About AI Security Brief AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait. About TrendAI™ TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.

Is your organization truly AI native, or did you just bolt AI onto existing infrastructure? Your answer could be an indicator to how much risk you’re carrying without realizing it.   Zach Evans, Chief Technology Officer at Xsolis, has a simple test for telling the difference: strip out the AI and see if your process still works. If it does, you may be exposing your organization to security blind spots and workflows that quietly erode organizational knowledge and skills.   Zach joins Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs to unpack what it actually takes to build an AI-native organization, and why the stakes of getting agentic AI wrong can be unforgiving for every organization, not just those in healthcare. You’ll learn: What makes an organization truly AI-native and why it matters How to design security, redundancy, and access controls into AI workflows from the start Why you should onboard AI agents like a new hire How to assess MCP servers as third-party vendors Why both technical redundancy and having people who can still perform critical work manually can’t be an afterthought Why stick around:  Zach turns lessons from real hospital downtime into a practical mandate for every security leader: plan for when the agent fails, not only for when it works. Episode resources: Zach Evans on LinkedIn Learn more about Xsolis From Predictive to Generative to Agentic AI: Understanding Healthcare’s Next Evolution The Cybercriminal Underground: Mapping the Healthcare Data Economy Hunt Them All: An AI-Powered Vulnerability Sweep of 19,000 MCP Servers Dustin Childs on LinkedIn ⁠Johnny Hand on LinkedIn TrendAI on LinkedIn About AI Security Brief AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait. About TrendAI™ TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.

Attackers aren't just using AI to steal data; they're using it to fight back while you investigate them in real time. And once an adversary is inside, why would they ever want to leave? That's the unsettling reality Tom Kellermann, VP of AI Security and Threat Research at TrendAI, lays out in this episode. And the numbers prove it. According to a 2026 TrendAI survey of 46 financial-sector CISOs, more than 60% of respondents experienced counter-incident response, where adversaries actively disrupt live investigations. In addition, nearly 90% of these leaders reported more AI-enabled attacks year over year.  Tom joins Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs to explain why the threats that hit the banks first tend to hit everyone else next, and what defenders can do about it. You'll learn: Why ungoverned AI should be treated as a command-and-control (C2) channel, and how attackers use it for reconnaissance, lateral movement, and persistence How agentic attacks work end-to-end, from jailbreaking LLMs through API attacks to dynamically spinning up C2s in minutes What tactics are used most for bank crime, from the rise of reverse business email compromise (RBEC), deepfake "employee digital twins," and the theft of non-public market information for digital front-running  How a strategic leadership alignment can improve AI defense  Why stick around:  Tom lays out how defenders can turn AI against the attackers, and why a CISO's independent voice has never mattered more. Episode resources: Modern Bank Heists 2026 report Tom Kellermann on LinkedIn Dustin Childs on LinkedIn Johnny Hand on LinkedIn TrendAI on LinkedIn About AI Security Brief AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can’t wait. About TrendAI™ TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.

While AI might seem abstract, something that lives in "the cloud" is concrete. The AI applications we use every day run on GPUs in physical buildings, and Mark Houpt secures them. As Chief Information Security Officer at DataBank, he's watched those data centers go from anonymous warehouses to national security targets almost overnight. Mark joins hosts Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs to make the case that the AI era is, at its core, a physical security problem, and why the security fundamentals you already know still work, even when applied to threats that didn't exist two years ago. You'll learn: How GPU scarcity and government export controls turned ordinary data centers into national security targets How the data center threat map has evolved - from employee badge slip-ups to nation-states, “laptop farm” fraud, and foreign-backed activism  Why compartmentalization is back at the center of the cybersecurity playbook, including the individual disk and the cage.  Why stick around: Mark hands you a working checklist for securing AI at the physical layer: how it’s being targeted, who's coming for it, and what to do about it. Episode resources: The AI Security Playbook (for Tech, Media & Communications)  DataBank website Mark Houpt on LinkedIn  Dustin Childs on LinkedIn Johnny Hand on LinkedIn TrendAI on LinkedIn About AI Security Brief AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait. About TrendAI™ TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.

Your team spent a decade maturing privileged access management. Then AI agents arrived and they don’t log in like humans. Now your biggest insider threat is an AI agent that lacks the access it needs, and then it goes to get it. In this episode Sundari Parekh, VP of AI Security and Cyber Risk Advisory for TrendAI™, addresses a hard truth: PAM was never fully solved, and non-human identity and agentic AI are amplifying the gap. Her fix: stop building a separate AI team, upend your identity thinking, and shift from gatekeeping AI adoption to safely enabling it.   You'll learn: Why 'least privilege' breaks down with agentic AI Why non-human identity covers more than service accounts, and where the real exposure lies How your existing PAM work is the agentic-identity head start most teams overlook Why stick around: Your already-stretched security team now supports an AI-native mandate. Sundari lays out how to govern the explosion of non-human identities before shadow AI does it for you. Episode resources: Sundari Parekh on LinkedIn ⁠Johnny Hand on LinkedIn TrendAI on LinkedIn About AI Security Brief AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait. About TrendAI™ TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.

If you think the recent wave of AI-discovered vulnerabilities is a problem, Rob Bair of Anthropic has a reframe for you. Discovery is the easy part. Closing the remediation gap is now the defining security challenge. Drawing on his experience in the Navy, in national security, and now frontier AI, Rob shares with host Johnny Hand what frontier models like Mythos actually mean for security leaders, and how defenders can keep pace when nation-state actors are already running autonomous attacks.  You’ll learn: What to do now that the discovery-to-exploitation window has collapsed and what that means for your patch cadence Why the answer to addressing AI-discovered vulnerabilities isn’t a single tool; it’s getting back to cybersecurity basics  What Anthropic’s GTG-1002 disclosure reveals about fully autonomous, AI-driven cyber kill chains used by nation-state actors Why stick around:  Learn how you can embrace frontier AI without losing sight of the operational fundamentals that ultimately determine organizational resilience. Episode resources: Anthropic Claude Mythos Expanding Project Glasswing The AI Threat Landscape: Why Your Security Playbook Needs a Rewrite Mythos Raises the Stakes Rob Bair on LinkedIn Dustin Childs on LinkedIn Johnny Hand on LinkedIn TrendAI on LinkedIn About AI Security Brief AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can’t wait. About TrendAI™ TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk. AI Fearlessly. trendaisecurity.com

At Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, a security researcher used agentic AI to help her win. The AI surfaced real, verified bugs, then wrongly called her winning bug “not unexploitable in practice.” Spoiler - it was.That uneven record is exactly what security leaders need to understand about the promise and limits of agentic AI. In this episode, host Dustin Childs sits down with Valentina Palmiotti – better known as Chompie – who took home $70,000 for zero-days in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Drawing from firsthand experience, Chompie shares agentic AI’s proven value for defenders and why human expertise remains essential. What we cover: What agentic AI can genuinely do in skilled hands today, and where it still fails Why your real exposure isn't new bugs, it's the widening gap before known ones get patched How agentic AI is best viewed as a tool that frees skilled teams for higher-value work Why stick around: This is a real-world view of agentic AI beyond the hype: what security work AI can accelerate and the judgement calls it can’t make without human input. Episode resources: Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 — Day One results (TrendAI Zero Day Initiative) Chompie on X Dustin Childs on LinkedIn Johnny Hand on LinkedIn TrendAI on LinkedIn About AI Security Brief AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can’t wait. About TrendAI™ TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.

Your enterprise AI strategy isn’t as far along as you think. The reality for most organizations today is that AI is disrupting existing processes more than it’s delivering outcomes… so far. And according to Dr. Grace Trinidad, Research Director at IDC, that’s how it should be. In this episode, host Johnny Hand sits down with Dr. Grace to discuss how AI adoption follows the same pattern as almost every major digital transformation, and why this disruption phase we’re in is messy, yet critically important.  What we cover: How history demonstrates that automation across industries created disruption well before delivering value Why your AI adoption strategy is much more than simple tool deployment What business and technology leaders need to consider as they integrate AI into operational workflows How token consumption and AI FinOps are the emerging security and cost risk How AI ontologies will be the next real business differentiator Why stick around:  If you’ve been wondering if your organization’s AI adoption strategy is ahead of the curve, Dr. Grace will give you a much clearer picture of where you really stand. Episode resources: Dr. Grace Trinidad on LinkedIn Securing the AI Enterprise: 5 Key Steps for Business Leaders Closing the Governance Gap in Agentic AI ⁠Johnny Hand on LinkedIn TrendAI on LinkedIn About AI Security Brief AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait. About TrendAI™ TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.

With over two decades of experience spanning global CIO and CISO roles Sachin Jain has a perspective on accountability that goes well beyond the CISO's desk. In this episode, Sachin shares why AI governance is a shared responsibility across the organization, and offers practical advice on one of the biggest challenges security leaders face: learning to speak the board's language.  What we cover: Who is actually accountable when AI agents make decisions that go wrong How to build an AI governance framework that holds up under pressure Breaking down silos across legal, engineering, and the board Why shadow AI is already happening in your organization, whether you know it or not How to speak the board's language and translate technical risk into budget approval Why stick around: If you've ever struggled to translate technical risk into budget approval, this conversation is going to resonate.  Episode resources: Sachin Jain on LinkedIn Dustin Childs on LinkedIn Johnny Hand on LinkedIn TrendAI on LinkedIn About AI Security Brief AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait. About TrendAI™ TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.

Ashish Rajan doesn’t sugarcoat what it means to be a security leader in the AI era. This is a moment where innovation is outpacing control. Where AI is being embedded into everything, often faster than organizations can understand, govern, or secure it. Ashish is a CISO, trusted advisor, and host of both the Cloud Security Podcast and AI Security Podcast. He is also the author of the upcoming book AI Security Engineering - which he describes as a framework for building and monitoring secure AI systems.  In this episode, Ashish addresses how security leaders can get ahead of the accelerated use of AI in their organization. What we cover: What happens to your risk posture when non-technical employees start committing code Why the built-in guardrails from your LLM or cloud provider aren't enough, and why assuming they are is your biggest blind spot What most incident response playbooks are completely missing when it comes to AI Practical advice for both security leaders and practitioners on how to get ahead of this Why stick around: If your organization is moving fast on AI adoption, Ashish will tell you plainly what's already exposed, and what to do about it. Episode resources: Pre-order AI Security Engineering Ashish Rajan linktr.ee Cloud Security Podcast AI Security Podcast Ashish Rajan on LinkedIn Dustin Childs on LinkedIn Johnny Hand on LinkedIn TrendAI on LinkedIn About AI Security Brief AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait. About TrendAI™ TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.

Robert (Bob) McArdle has spent two decades tracking cybercriminals - from ransomware groups to nation-state actors to financially motivated crime organizations. As a result, he has a front-row seat on how agentic AI is reshaping the threat landscape right now. In conversation with hosts Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs, Bob shares why agentic AI is a bigger game changer for cybercriminals than generative AI. What you’ll learn: How the criminal service economy is being rebuilt around AI, and why it was already perfectly structured for it The three rules of cybercrime adoption and how to use them to anticipate what's coming What defenders can actually do when the volume of attacks multiplies Why stick around:  Security teams take note: AI isn't only making phishing emails better. The entire criminal ecosystem has a new AI-driven engine. Episode resources: VibeCrime Report  The Next Phase of Cybercrime news.aatf.ai Robert McArdle on LinkedIn Dustin Childs on LinkedIn Johnny Hand on LinkedIn TrendAI on LinkedIn About AI Security Brief AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait. About TrendAI™ TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.

AI Security Brief is a new biweekly podcast, hosted by Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs, unpacking emerging AI threats, vulnerability research, and the strategic decisions and investments security leaders are making right now. Featuring proprietary intelligence from TrendAI threat research and conversations with international law enforcement, policy leaders, influencers and security executives building strategies for the next evolution in attack surface. AI Security Brief Episode 1 premieres on April 23rd, 2026. Listen and subscribe to the⁠ podcast⁠ wherever you get your favorite shows.