The Segment

The Monday Microsegment for the week of November 9. All the cybersecurity news you need to stay ahead, from Illumio's The Segment podcast.

• ·       Officials probe suspected hacks of freezers on U.S. military bases.
• ·       New details in last week’s record Binance crypto heist.
• ·       And Britain's cyber chief warns U.K. critical infrastructure providers to brace for AI-powered ransomware.

Plus, Gary Barlet joins to discuss the growing gap between cloud adoption and security.

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The Monday Microsegment for the week of November 2. All the cybersecurity news you need to stay ahead, from Illumio's The Segment podcast.

• More than six billion dollars snatched in the biggest crypto heist on record
• Last week’s PHP flaws have already hit real targets.
• And hacktivists expose data on more than forty thousand Homeland Security workers.

Plus, Gary Barlet joins to discuss state-sponsored threats and the battle for trust in U.S. elections.

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"Everything that we are going through with AI right now will only accelerate the need for zero trust, because if indeed software is easy to develop, people will have more tools. We cannot trust (unmanaged) end user devices. We need to have more controls where the data is."

In this episode of The Segment, host Raghu Nandakumara reconnects with Dr. Alex Shulman, Global CISO at Kraken Technologies, to explore what security leadership needs to look like in the age of AI.

Having worked together during the early days of cloud adoption, Raghu and Alex reflect on how security strategies have evolved, what lessons organizations can carry forward from cloud, and why AI is challenging some of our most fundamental assumptions about trust.

Alex makes the case that security fundamentals aren't static. As technology evolves, so must our approach to protecting identities, devices, and data. And with AI making it easier than ever for employees to develop and adopt new tools, she argues that Zero Trust, shared responsibility, and proactive security practices are becoming even more critical.

Raghu and Alex also discuss:

• Why security can no longer be the responsibility of the security team alone, and what it means to embed security into everyday engineering and operations
• How AI is redefining security fundamentals, from managing human identities to securing autonomous AI agents
• Why security teams need to enable employee creativity and innovation rather than simply enforce restrictions
• What Zero Trust really means in the modern enterprise, and why Alex believes it starts with making zero assumptions about the underlying environment
• What organizations can learn from cloud adoption as they navigate AI security, shared responsibility, and evolving risks

Plus, Alex shares some uncomfortable cybersecurity truths, challenges conventional thinking about security policies, and offers her advice for what organizations should prioritize over the next 12 months.

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The Monday Microsegment for the week of October 26. All the cybersecurity news you need to stay ahead, from Illumio's The Segment podcast.

• Websites across the globe go dark to fix a pair of critical PHP flaws.
• An AI-powered hacking tool targets hundreds of organizations.
• And OpenAI says it’s revoking internet privileges for models in training.

Plus, Christer Swartz joins for October’s Boos and Bravos.

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Get the Industry’s First Vendor-Neutral Zero Trust Certification: https://www.illumio.com/zero-trust-certification 

The Monday Microsegment for the week of October 19. All the cybersecurity news you need to stay ahead, from Illumio's The Segment podcast.

• It looks like the accused OpenAI spy may have had an accomplice: ChatGPT.
• France's fridge fry has reached around 700 stores. And officials warn it may not be over.
• Could the next botnet think for itself? Researchers say small AI models are getting close.

Plus, Aishwarya Ramani joins to discuss the growing cybersecurity risks of AI adoption in financial services

Head to The Zero Trust Hub: hub.illumio.com

Get the Industry’s First Vendor-Neutral Zero Trust Certification: https://www.illumio.com/zero-trust-certification 

The Monday Microsegment for the week of October 12. All the cybersecurity news you need to stay ahead, from Illumio's The Segment podcast.

• Another suspected Shiny Hunter member is in custody as the FBI traces its attack to a single missed patch — and now-removed contractor.
• Hackers turn an AI attack tool on South Korean banks.
• And attackers lock Fortinet customers out of their own firewalls.

Plus, Gary Barlet to discuss the recent cyberattack on the Pentagon.

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Get the Industry’s First Vendor-Neutral Zero Trust Certification: https://www.illumio.com/zero-trust-certification 

AI is giving attackers new ways to move faster, scale attacks, and explore every possible path through an environment. But does that mean defenders need an entirely new security strategy?

In this special episode of The Segment, Raghu Nandakumara is joined by John Kindervag, creator of Zero Trust and Chief Evangelist at Illumio; Rich Mogull, Chief Analyst at the Cloud Security Alliance; and Don Yeske, longtime federal cybersecurity leader and Senior Solutions Architect and

Together, they explore why Zero Trust remains critical in the age of AI, how organizations can identify and secure their most important protect surfaces, and why trying to defend everything at once is often a recipe for failure.

Download the book here: https://www.illumio.com/resource-center/cyber-resilience-at-machine-speed-the-zero-trust-model-for-the-ai-era

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why AI changes the speed and scale of cyberattacks, but not the fundamentals of security
• How protect surfaces make Zero Trust practical and achievable
• Why attackers face a fundamentally different problem than defenders
• How segmentation and security boundaries can make an attacker’s job harder
• Why “the accumulation of tactics isn’t strategy”
• How organizations can prioritize their most critical assets instead of trying to secure everything at once
• Why AI is making security fundamentals more urgent, not obsolete
• How Zero Trust has evolved from the cloud era to the age of frontier AI

The Monday Microsegment for the week of October 5. All the cybersecurity news you need to stay ahead, from Illumio's The Segment podcast.

• Hackers steal records on 3 million people in a monthslong Pentagon break-in. 
• Two suspected ShinyHunters members are in custody, and one is said to be helping the FBI. 
• AI’s biggest names sign a safety pledge — with no penalties or enforcement attached. 

Plus, John Kindervag for this month’s book club discussion, featuring Think Like an Attacker by Dr. Chase Cunningham. 

Link to book: https://www.illumio.com/resource-center/think-like-an-attacker

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Get the Industry’s First Vendor-Neutral Zero Trust Certification: https://www.illumio.com/zero-trust-certification 

AI may be the latest technology transformation, but for security teams, the challenges feel familiar.

In this episode of The Segment, Raghu Nandakumara sits down with Ashish Rajan, CISO of TechRiot, host of the Cloud Security Podcast and AI Security Podcast, and author of AI Security Engineering, to explore what the cloud era can teach us about securing AI.

They discuss how AI is reshaping cloud security, why the shared responsibility model gets even murkier with AI, and what changes when security teams have to protect agents whose behavior and intent aren’t always predictable.

Ashish also shares how organizations can start building practical AI security programs today, why continuous evals and human oversight matter, and the AI skills security practitioners will need for what comes next.

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The Monday Microsegment for the week of September 28. All the cybersecurity news you need to stay ahead, from Illumio's The Segment podcast.

• The FBI is investigating claims from ShinyHunters that it breached the bureau. 
• You’ll never guess what OpenAI agents did (again). 
• And is vibe-coding putting personal data at risk? 

Plus, Christer Swartz joins us for September's Boos and Bravos. 

Head to The Zero Trust Hub: hub.illumio.com

Get the Industry’s First Vendor-Neutral Zero Trust Certification: https://www.illumio.com/zero-trust-certification