For this episode we’ve got another great conversation recorded live during the 2024 Black Hat conference in Las Vegas! Alex welcomes Francis Odum, founder of the Software Analyst—a cybersecurity research platform. Francis is a well-regarded analyst with a large audience of investors, builders, and practitioners who look to him for guidance on what security solutions and technologies they should be paying attention to. 

Francis and Alex talk about the state of the industry and dig into two related topics on everyone’s mind at Black Hat: non-human identities and gen AI. Francis shares his views on what’s hype, what isn’t, and how the industry is responding to new threats and new tech. It’s a timely episode that will have you looking ahead to 2025 and beyond!

What’s inside:

• The explosion of service accounts and how the industry is solving for it
• AI’s possibilities—and access issues
• What cybersecurity trends Francis is paying attention to right now 
• Use cases for point solutions vs. platforms
• How the shared responsibility model of security is evolving