KBKAST

Most security vendors are shipping AI that treats capability as authority. Sean Duca thinks that’s the mistake customers are already paying for. Back on KBKast for a third time, now as co-founder and CEO of getsoteria.ai, Sean makes the case that confidence and permission are two separate gates, and that an autonomous SOC needs both before it touches...

The old security math is broken. Teams used to get roughly 60 days between a vulnerability going public and attackers using it. Harman Kaur, Tanium’s CTO, explains why that number has flipped to negative, and what it means when the patch you need does not exist yet.

This con...

Bradon Rogers, Chief Customer Officer at Island, the company that created the enterprise browser category in 2020, joins KB to unpack why the industry spent two decades bolting security around the browser instead of building it in. They dig into whether organisations are solving complexity or just relocating it, why VPNs and VDI survived so long when everybody hated...

KB is on the ground at SAP Sapphire 2026 in Orlando, where AI has moved beyond experimentation and into the center of enterprise decision making. In this KB On The Go episode, Maura Hameroff (CMO, Cloud ERP Private and RISE with SAP) makes the case that modernizing your core is a business transformation decision rather than a technical upgrade, and that companies st...

In this episode, Anna Wheeler, CEO of SSAW LLC, joins KB as she explains why so many cyber teams are stuck in event-driven strategy while calling it the real thing, why the doers can’t climb out of it because their KPIs won’t let them, and why visionary CEOs keep getting ousted when the board can’t see what they see. Along the way: the CEOs quietly...

Recorded at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, where 20,000 operators, engineers and executives gathered at Mandalay Bay to shape the future of networking, AI and cybersecurity. KB sits down with two Cisco leaders confronting the problems AI is creating and the infrastructure built to outlast them. Tom Gillis, SVP and GM of Cisco’s Infrastructure and Security Group...

John leads customer success, presales, and professional services across APAC at Workato and serves as Field CTO for the region. With more than twenty-five years of experience, including roles at Oracle and TIBCO and as co-founder of Rubicon Red, he focuses on helping enterprises unlock real, lasting value from AI and integration.

In this episode of KBKast, John join...

KB grabs the mic backstage at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos for two conversations that sit on either end of the same problem: how leaders should be thinking about risk in an unstable world, and what it actually looks like when a sector has been living that instability for years.

First up, KB sits down with Ch...

KB is on the ground at SAP Sapphire in Orlando, where AI has officially moved beyond experimentation and into the core of enterprise decision making. In two conversations, Marielle Ehrmann (Chief Security, Compliance and Risk Officer, SAP) unpacks why AI governance has entered the boardroom as an accelerator rather than a brake, what separates responsible AI from AI theater, and why the biggest risk usually isn’t the model it...

Mark Jones is Co Founder of MosaicalAI and has spent more than 25 years working across cybersecurity, technology risk, governance and resilience in complex environments where decisions need to be defensible and the cost of getting it wrong is high.

His work sits at the intersection of security, business leadership and change. He helps organisations understand risk, build capability in their people, create practical operating models...

Recorded at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, where 20,000 operators, engineers and executives gathered at Mandalay Bay to shape the future of networking, AI and cybersecurity. KB sits down with two Cisco security leaders on the front lines of agentic AI. Peter Bailey, SVP and GM of Cisco Security, breaks down why the security frameworks built over the last 20 years wer...

KB grabs the mic backstage at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos for two conversations that couldn’t look more different on the surface, but end up pointing at the same thing: where cyber threats really come from, and who’s pushing back.

First up, KB sits down with Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinnes...

Pete Harteveld was appointed CEO of Exabeam in October 2025 and most recently served as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer.  He has more than two decades of leadership experience having built a reputation for scaling revenue and building high-performing global teams across the cybersecurity and technology sectors.

Pete played a pivotal role in uniting Exabeam and LogRhythm in 2024, leveraging his deep expertise in merge...

KB is on the ground at the ISACA 2026 North American Conference in Las Vegas, this time for the AI conversation that’s reshaping ROI, risk and governance all at once.

Sushila Nair, Independent Information Security Consultant, and President of the ISACA Greater Washin...

As a specialist in networking and software development, Vincent joined the F5 team in France in 2000 as a pre-sales engineer. Having contributed to F5’s growth initially in the French market and South EMEA region, he took on several managerial roles before overseeing from 2018 the EMEA pre-sales teams as the VP of Solutions Engineering for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).  From 2025, Vincent has been appointe...

KB takes the mic behind the scenes at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos, where 1,500 people from across cyber, legal, tech and government packed a room to do something rare: shift the entire industry’s focus from the moment of crisis to what comes before it. In two conversations, Reece Corbett-Wilkins and Leah Pinto reflect on the day, the speakers, and what it actually takes to change an industry’s centre of gravity.

Then Anthony C...

Snowflake has recently appointed Mayank Upadhyay its Chief Security and Trust Officer to lead security efforts.

Mayank brings one of the most influential careers in enterprise security to Snowflake. During his more than two decades at Google, he shaped the modern security landscape, ultimately serving as Vice President of Engineering for Google Cloud where he secured both the public-facing Google Cloud Platform and the private clou...

KB is on the ground at ISACA 2026 North American Conference in Las Vegas, sitting down with two guests pulling at the same thread from different angles: the gap between how dependent we’ve become on modern tools and how little we actually understand them.

First, Pam ...