Cybersecurity News & Analysis by Cyber Sidekicks - Your Weekly Update’
Christina Richmond and Rory Duncan of Cyber Sidekicks discuss the latest insights into the cybersecurity market’s most significant news, trends, and technologies. Follow us at richmondadvisorygroup.com, linkedin.com/in/roryduncan and linkedin.com/in/christinarichmond
Episodes
Lots to discuss this week!
We find out about what's happening in the world of AI, Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) with Danny Howett, Technical Director at CyXCel.
NEWS
M&A: CyberBit Acquires RangeForce to Create Combined Cyber Range Platform
Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Prioritizing Identity to Safeguard Critical Infrastructure
New AI term of the week – Workslop: In an article for the Harvard Business Re...
In this episode we have an in-depth chat with Kyle Wickert, Field CTO at AlgoSec about Cloud 2.0 / Network 2.0 and what his customers are saying to him about the use of AI/AI Agents, policy management, application recertification and much more!
No News this week but Christina talks to us about her impressions of Lumen Technologies, following her attendance at last week's Analyst Summit.
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This week's episode sees us in discussion with the globetrotting CISO of Cequence Security, Randolph Barr about everything to do with AI, preventing API vulnerabilities, security hygiene and the dream of a fully agentic AI vulnerability management lifecycle...
Cybersecurity Society of the Philippines
IN THE NEWS
Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows
Rock Lambros, CEO & Founder of Rock Cyber joins us again this week to delve deeper into the emerging opportunities, risks and challenges of using agentic AI in your SecOps - and what you can do to minimize potential exposure and risk.
OWASP GenAI / Agentic AI resources
In the news:
Personal Liability, Security Become Bigger Issues for CISOs
Varonis Acquires Email Security Provider SlashNext to Enhance BEC Defenses
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This week we chat with Chris Newton-Smith, CEO of ISMS Online about AI compliance, governance and the regulatory requirements relating to ISO 42001, the EU AI Act and more!
In the news:
US, Allies Push for SBOMs to Bolster Cybersecurity
US Offers $10 Million for Three Russian Energy Firm Hackers
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This week we delve into OWASP's recently-released OWASP Agentic AI SecOps Framework and Market Landscape report:
https://genai.owasp.org/resource/ai-security-solutions-landscape-for-agentic-ai-q3-2025/
This week's guest is Paul Farrington, Chief Product Officer at Glasswall. Paul, Christina & I talk about the evolution of Zero Trust and where the industry is headed....
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This week's guest is Simon Hodgkinson, Strategic Advisor to security firm Semperis. We chat about the importance of business fundamentals, the data and infrastructure hygiene required for effective cybersecurity, and what keeps him up at night!
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In this week's special 30th Episode (woot!) we have a great discussion with IBM's Global Managing Partner of Cybersecurity Services, Mark Hughes around the adoption of AI, AI Agents and how to prepare for and manage the cybersecurity challenges and risks to the enterprise.
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This week: more M&A news as SentinelOne announces its plan to acquire Prompt Security. Also, special guest Nate Case of Clarity talks about cyber warfare tabletop exercises, scenario gaming and AI!
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In this week's episode we cover the latest hot cybersecurity M&A deal of the year, as Palo Alto Network announces it intent to acquire identity specialist CyberArk!
We also chat with Rock Lambros, Founder & CEO of Rock Cyber
Check out Rock's collaboration on OWASP's latest GenAI / LLM reports & guides
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This week, Erik Bloch, VP of Security at Illumio outlines why he believes that 90%+ of AI-generated alerts are trivial or benign, and what affect this is starting to have on security analysts.
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This week it's all about AI Agents as we chat with Kayla Underkoffler, Lead Security Engineer in the Office of the CTO at Zenity -
LI profile: linkedin.com/in/kayla-underkoffler-7400673a
Website: https://zenity.io/
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This week we have an in-depth discussion about post quantum cryptography (PQC), AI & digital sovereignty with Utimaco's CTO, Nils Gerhardt
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In this episode we deep-dive into LevelBlue's announced plan to acquire Trustwave. We also have a great discussion with Wallarm's Tim Erlin about what's coming next in API Security.
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This week's guest is GitLab's VP of Product Security Julie Davila
We chat about AI, identity, trust in the context of the latest cybersecurity trends, as well as the best route into learning ice hockey!
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This week’s special guest Kayne McGladrey, (blog: kaynemcgladrey.com ), CISO-in-Residence at Hyperproof, outlines the business challenges that CISO's face, as we discuss new types of risk in daily threat management.
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...Rory is off this week due to illness, so this episode is brought to you by two AI hosts who discuss some of our latest research and what services Richmond Advisory Group offers.
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This week's guest - Ryan LaSalle, CEO of Human Threat Management solutions vendor Nisos - discusses how to identify human exposure, behavioral patterns, and adversarial intent, and protect your cybersecurity infrastructure.
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This week we discuss the future of penetration testing and AI in cybersecurity with NetSPI’s Principal AI Researcher Kurtis Shelton.
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This week:
- The challenges of talent & recruitment in the security services sector and the state of the incident response market with Trustwave's Damian Archer.
- News about how AI Agents and Assistants are affecting Google, and Gitlab via Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) attacks!
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