Security Boulevard: A Podcast about the Technologies and Developments Driving Modern Cybersecurity | The Futurum Group Podcast Network
Welcome to Security Boulevard, a podcast about the technologies and developments driving modern Cybersecurity and part of The Futurum Group Podcast Network. Hosted by Tom Hollingsworth of Tech Field Day and Fernando Montenegro of The Futurum Group, each episode explores a variety of topics within development, artificial intelligence, and the technologies influencing the modern landscape of Cybersecurity in the Enterprise Technology industry. New episodes post every Tuesday. The Security Boulevard Podcast is part of The Futurum Group Podcast Network.
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Your smart TV might be watching you back—and footprinting every other device on your home network while it’s at it.
In this episode of Security Boulevard, Tom Hollingsworth and Zoë Rose unpack the troubling revelations from Gamers Nexus regarding LG smart TVs, examining how ambient recording and pervasive data scraping have become normalized across modern consumer tech...
When AI creators sound the alarm on apocalyptic cyber threats, are they warning society or pitching their own lucrative solutions?
In this episode of the Security Boulevard Podcast, Tom Hollingsworth, Jack Poller, and Drew Conry-Murray unpack OpenAI’s recent open letter calling for a society-wide defensive surge against AI-driven security risks.
The panel examines the glaring irony of frontier AI developers sounding alarms ov...
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Imagine your home router silently tracking every step you take through your living room without you ever realizing it.
In this episode of the Security Boulevard Podcast, host Tom Hollingsworth is joined by cybersecurity experts Jack Poller and Kate Scarcella to tackle Comcast’s controversial move to enable Wi-Fi motion-sensing capabilities on home routers.
The panel dives de...
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What happens when autonomous AI agents are given competing goals without strict safety boundaries? They build custom malware, sabotage rivals, and wage digital war on each other.
In this episode of Security Boulevard, host Tom Hollingsworth along with Fernando Montenegro and Drew Conry-Murray unpack a wild experiment where Anthropic models unexpectedly resorted to offensive...
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Cyberattacks are evolving faster than ever, leaving enterprise IT teams scrambling to protect their networks against intelligent threats.
In this episode of the Security Boulevard Podcast, hosts Tom Hollingsworth and analyst Fernando Montenegro from The Futurum Group break down the shifting cybersecurity landscape. They discuss how organizations can adapt their defense strat...
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Storing your cryptocurrency offline might not protect your wealth as well as you think.
In this episode of Security Boulevard, host Tom Hollingsworth joins cybersecurity experts Drew Conry-Murray and Ed Weadon to breakdown how attackers siphoned over $90 million in Bitcoin from supposedly air-gapped Cold Card wallets.
The panel discusses how a simple coding flaw in random numb...
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What happens when the world’s biggest tech companies team up to fix AI security, but leave the top AI creators out of the room?
In this episode of Security Boulevard, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by security research analyst Fernando Montenegro to break down the sudden launch of the Open Secure AI Alliance. Formed by major industry players like NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Dell, t...
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Is the traditional CISO officially extinct?
In this episode of the Security Boulevard Podcast, hosts Tom Hollingsworth is joined by security research analyst Fernando Montenegro and 25-year industry veteran Kate Scarcella to discuss the evolution of Chief Information Security Officers, from hands-on networking nerds to strategic business executives navigating personal board ...
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What happens when an anonymous researcher uses AI to unleash a hidden wave of zero-day exploits without giving maintainers any warning?
In this episode of the Security Boulevard Podcast, hosts Tom Hollingsworth and Fernando Montenegro dive into the chaos caused by the "Exploitarium" code drop on GitHub, where AI tools were used to uncover zero-day vulnerabilities in critical open...
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What if the secret to mastering supply chain security is accepting that it can never actually be "fixed"?
In this episode of the Security Boulevard Podcast, host Tom Hollingsworth, co-host Fernando Montenegro, and Packet Pushers' Editor-in-Chief Drew Conry-Murray tackle the escalating complexities of both hardware and software supply chains.
Drew highlights how attackers increasi...
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When a massive database of exposed, internet-facing devices is leaked to the world, the last thing customers expect from their trusted security vendor is a nine-day silence.
In this episode of the Security Boulevard Podcast, Tom Hollingsworth, Ed Weadon, and Jonathan Davis break down Fortinet's controversial handling of a recent FortiGate vulnerability exposure.
While Fortinet's ...
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Are we trying to secure the future of artificial intelligence with the cyber equivalent of duct tape?
In this episode of Security Boulevard, Tom Hollingsworth and Fernando Montenegro dive into the dangerous industry tendency to fall back on legacy frameworks—like firewalls, tunnels, and isolation VLANs—to solve modern AI, LLM, and agentic security challenges.
They exp...
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Imagine giving an autonomous AI agent a task, only for it to act like an evil genie that twists your words and deletes your entire database to "manage" it.
In this episode of the Security Boulevard Podcast, host Tom Hollingsworth and Fernando Montenegro explore how the concept of Zero Trust is evolving to solve this exact problem.
They move past the traditional networking hype to...
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Are corporate lawsuits about to push independent security researchers out of cybersecurity just as AI becomes better at finding vulnerabilities?
In this episode of the Security Boulevard Podcast, host Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Fernando Montenegro and cybersecurity architect Kate Scarcella to discuss Microsoft’s legal threats ag...
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When Dutch authorities shattered a massive 17-million-device botnet, they exposed a critical reality of modern infrastructure: you aren't the target, but your everyday devices absolutely are.
In this episode of the Security Boulevard Podcast, host Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Fernando Montenegro and Zoë Rose to dissect the coordinated takedown of a global botnet operation fuele...
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What happens when AI can find and exploit vulnerabilities faster than humans can respond?
In this episode of the Security Boulevard Podcast, host Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Drew Conry-Murray and Jack Poller to examine the rise of the so-called “Vulnpocalypse” and what it means for security teams, developers, CISOs, and IT operations.
The discussion explores how AI...
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Imagine managing 100 autonomous digital workers for every human employee in your organization, now, how do you stop them from going completely rogue or violating your security compliance?
In this episode of the Security Boulevard Podcast, host Tom Hollingsworth sits down with Fernando Montenegro and Alan Shimel to tackle the chaotic frontier of Agentic AI and the massive cybersec...
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What happens to your security team when public certificate lifetimes shrink to just 47 days?
In this episode of the Security Boulevard Podcast, Tom Hollingsworth, Fernando Montenegro, and Mitch Ashley tackle the looming operational nightmare of ultra-short certificate validity and why manual management is officially hitting its breaking point.
The panel explores the "Red Queen Hy...
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As security alerts skyrocket and cloud infrastructure becomes the new normal, is the traditional Security Operations Center officially hitting its breaking point?
In this live episode of the Security Boulevard Podcast recorded at Security Field Day, host Tom Hollingsworth is joined by analysts Jack Poller and Fernando Montenegro to dissect the massive shifts hitting SecOps.
The p...
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The gap between what AI vendors build and what customers actually need has reached a breaking point in 2026.
In this episode of Security Boulevard, hosts Tom Hollingsworth, Mitch Ashley, and Fernando Montenegro discuss the growing tension between vendor roadmaps and user reality.
The team dives deep into the "Spring of Agentic 2026," discussing how the meteoric rise of OpenClaw d...
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