No Day 3 podcast, but we saved a great discussion for Day 4 - with Dave Merkel, Co-Founder and CEO of Expel. During the chat, we looked at the past, present and potential future of cybersecurity, including AI, the Agentic SOC and the restorative power of a burger washed down with a pint of ale!

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"It's a new cyber war of digital escalation" - Day 2 at #RSAC2026, and in the second of our Cyber Sidekicks podcasts, hosts Christina Richmond and Rory Duncan chat with #IBM's Associate Partner of Security Services John Velisaris about "the art of the possible" for enterprise security protection.

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It's Day 1 of RSAC 2026! Principal Analysts Christina Richmond and Rory Duncan chat with Spektrum Labs' CISO Josh Brown about cybersecurity resilience, safeguards, posture validation and insurance readiness

This is the first of our RSAC 2026 podcasts. You can see the video version on our YouTube Channel.

Day 2 and Day 4 podcasts and videos to follow!

Richmond Advisory Group

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It's RSAC 2026 Week! In the run-up to the show, Christina and Rory chat with Zenity's VP of Security Strategy, Chris Hughes. The discussion centers on the transformative and "double-edged" nature of AI in cybersecurity - simultaneously breaking traditional security paradigms and offering new promise for areas like GRC, AppSec, and SecOps.

RSAC 2026 Preview

Christina & Rory highlight some of the meetings planned at the show, including with IBM, Netcraft, LevelBlue and Zenity.

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Serious discussions this week as Christina & Rory look more closely at how a combination of physical and digital threats are bringing the effects of the conflict in the Middle East home to people across a wide region. Datacenter outages, AI-powered targeting and large-scale hacktivist attacks outline the heightened vulnerability of critical infrastructure.

AWS UAE data center hit by outage following military strikes across the region

Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’ 

Iran Cyber Front: Hacktivist Activity Rises, but State-Sponsored Attacks Stay Low

As War Continues, Pro-Iranian Actors Launch Barrage of Cyberattacks

AI NEWS

GenAI content spawns a new acronym

Microsoft gets pissed at new AI term - I wonder why?

AI Agent scans GitHub for exploitable Actions - asks for crypto

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This week we discuss some of the trends, new directions and common approaches of some of this year's RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox Finalists! We also cover the latest M&A News: Palo Alto Networks announcing their intention to buy AI endpoint security platform Koi; the pitfalls of using an AI-generated random password (hint: they're not actually unique or necessarily secure...), and; the latest threat from LLM "distillation".....

NEWS

Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Koi in Reported $400 Million Transaction

Your AI-generated password isn't random: it just looks that way

Detecting & Preventing Distillation Attacks

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In the run-up to RSAC 2026 we have the first of a series of shows highlighting some of the new and innovative cybersecurity firms in the event's Innovation Sandbox Top 10 Final. This week, Christina & Rory chat with Hanah-Marie Darley, Chief AI Officer at Geordie.ai about how to govern AI agents by deeply understanding what they are capable of, their behaviour, and how to manage and govern them through the context that they are operating in, on a minute-by-minute basis.

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Another week, another acquisition? This time, Sophos is front-and-centre with the announcement that it intends to purchase UK-based Arco Cyber in a move that the company says will help customers by combining agentic AI, integrated platforms, and trusted human expertise delivered in partnership with managed service providers (MSPs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs).

We also have a great chat with cybersecurity community activist, semi-retired industry analyst, consultant, and board member Jon Oltsik about SOAPA - stay tuned for more content around this architecture/framework!

NEWS

Sophos to acquire Arco Cyber “to Bring CISO-Level, Agentic AI-Powered Expertise to Every Organization”

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This week, Christina & Rory discuss Moltbook: the social network built for AI agents - but what are the security implications, and how could attackers take advantage of potential vulnerabilities? Also, more AI-fuelled attacks on AWS' S3 public buckets make credential finding much quicker, and an update on how Poland's cybersecurity police are cracking down on the increase in domestic hacking and DDoS / botnet crime!

NEWS

Security Analysis of Moltbook Agent Network: Bot-to-Bot Prompt Injection and Data Leaks

8-Minute Access: AI Accelerates Breach of AWS Environment

Polish cops bail 20-year-old bedroom botnet operator

RSAC 2026

The preparations have started! Let us know what you would like to see covered on our special Show Episode at the end of March.

We recorded a fun episode with IBM in 2025 - take a look at the video on our YouTube channel.

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