This week, we chat with Simon Hunt, Chief Product Officer at Securonix about the intersection of human intelligence and AI in cybersecurity, and the current hype and "anthropomorphizing" of large language models (LLMs). 

Christina also gives us an update on her visit to Cisco Live! She's also written a great blog that includes her thoughts and insights from the event.

We also cover a couple of news items, including this week's "wtf" moment from the demo of the AI- hallucinated VibeOS and discuss what the potential security implications might be.

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This week, another in our series of Special Episodes - this one dedicated to an analysis of the state of the Threat Hunting market, the key players and the early movers in pre-emptive cybersecurity. Richmond Advisory Group's Principal Analysts Christina Richmond & Rory Duncan outline the evolution of threat hunting from reactive, through proactive, to pre-emptive, debating the use of AI agents and "machine speed" defence. The team also look at some of the more prominent early movers, including Netcraft, Bfore.ai, Nisos, DeepWatch, IBM and Sweet Security.

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Cody Pierce, Co-Founder & CEO of Neon Cyber chat with Rory this week about visibility, context, and the importance of decentralized security as he proposes that the browser will become the operating system for most people's daily work. 

NEWS

Christina & Rory discuss healthcare and data confidentiality this week - outlining the alarming increase in cyber-attacks in this sector: 118 large-scale healthcare data breaches in the first 2 months of 2026 alone! What’s behind it and what can we do about it? Counter measures, strategies and tactics are debated and discussed in a wide-ranging discussion!

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How do you differentiate between a scenario where agents are getting smarter and working for you versus getting smarter and working against you? This week, Christina & Rory chat with Shiv Agarwal, Co-Founder & CEO at Singulr AI, discussing the advancements in detective and preventive technologies and the importance of modelling out the Good vs. the Bad

NEWS

Google Detects First AI-Generated Zero-Day Exploit

Sweet Security Launches Agentic AI Red Teaming to Counter ‘Mythos Moment’

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The critical topic of securing the software supply chain is discussed this week with Daniel Bardenstein, CEO & Co-Founder of Manifest Cyber. Rory, Christina & Daniel talk about the critical intersection of AI, supply chain security, and the erosion of trust in technology.

Christina also shares her thoughts about her visit to IBM Think 2026, including why specific solutions for orchestration and observability have calmed many of her fears about the governance of agentic AI !

Link to the IBM video that Christina mentions:

Agentic Runtime Security Explained: Securing Non-Human Identity

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In this week's episode, Kory Daniels, Chief Security & Trust Officer at LevelBlue describes how the rapid advancement of AI is fundamentally altering the cybersecurity landscape, necessitating a shift in how organizations approach defense, culture, and risk management. In discussion with Christina and Rory, Kory argues that the speed of AI agentic capabilities—specifically citing models like Anthropic’s Opus and the newly-announced Mythos —is making traditional vulnerability management irrelevant.

NEWS

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue!

Airbus strengthens sovereign cyber security with acquisition of Quarkslab in France

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This week's mega-episode is the second in our series of deep-dives into industry topics, this time looking at Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC). Christina and Rory chat about the history of GRC, its "facelift" more! 

Two guests join the show this week to discuss the topic: Fabio Campos, Managing Partner, Global Cyber Strategy & Risk Leader at IBM Consulting, and Matt Alderman, Chief Product Officer at CyberSaint.

Links to things discussed in the show:

IBM Announces Autonomous Security

IBM Blog: Autonomous Security for Cloud in Azure.... 

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A bumper episode this week: Christina & Rory discuss the announcement of IBM Autonomous Security & cybersecurity assessment services. Does this fulfill the goal of using agents to autonomously handle repetitive security tasks - aka the "boring bits" - that humans often struggle to maintain?

This week's guest is Co-Founder & CEO of Straiker, Ankur Shah, and we have an interesting discussion about securing the AI lifecycle, particularly during the development and experimentation phases addressing the risks that arise when coding agents generate new autonomous entities for the enterprise.

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Former CIA officer and seasoned cybersecurity leader - and co-host of CISO Tradecraft, creator of the OWASP Threat and Safeguard Matrix (TaSM) - Ross Young joins the show this week to discuss his latest book - Cybersecurity's Dirty Secret: Why Most Budgets Go To Waste - and chat about the importance of strategy & workflow when it comes to Agentic AI.

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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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