The Watchtower

Are We Building Enterprise AI Backwards?

Are we building enterprise AI backwards? As organizations race to adopt bigger, more powerful AI models, Alex Attumalil, Global CISO at Under Armour, believes the real tr

Convenience: The Common Thread Behind Human and Agentic Risk

If Convenience Wins, We Lose. Evan Gordenker led more than 160 insider investigations at Unit 42, including work on DPRK IT-worker operations, before taking over insider

Are We Facing Machine-Speed Threats With Human-Speed Security?

Should detection and response remain the center of security when AI, data, and identity are converging at machine speed? Detection and response has long been an organizi

The AI Fraud Risk Already Inside Your Company

If you focus entirely on the external AI-fraud threat, you're going to get burned by what's already inside your organization. AI is making external fraud more convincing

Are We Too Secure?

When security deals in absolutes, the business finds a way around it. Bose CISO Arun Abraham joins Ash Hunt to discuss why flat “no”s create shadow IT, how security lead

Cyber Burnout Is a Security Vulnerability

Is security really failing or is it our Paleolithic brains?  It’s the 'responsibility-control paradox' eating CISOs alive Peter Coroneos is the founder of Cybermindz.or

"Can Defense Keep Up?" Is the Wrong Question

How defense keeps up with AI, cyber threats, and private-sector innovation. In this episode of The Watchtower, Ash Hunt sits down with Jimmy Harrington, retired Air Forc

AI Doesn't Give Us Judgment

Is AI helping us make better decisions or just giving us more data to misinterpret? In this episode of The Watchtower, Ash Hunt speaks with Tony Martin-Vegue, founder of

When Identity Fails, The Business Stops

Identity is now the fabric that determines the viability of every business operation. In this episode of The Watchtower, Ash Hunt talks with Valvoline CISO Corey Kaemmin

Are We Measuring the Right Things?

Security runs on metrics, but do those metrics reflect real risk? In this episode of The Watchtower, Ash Hunt sits down with Wade Baker - co-founder of Cyentia Institute

What 1,000+ Breaches Taught This CISO About Preparedness

Are you just avoiding a breach? Or are you prepared for one? Dan Bowden is the Global CISO at Marsh - the world's largest insurance broker - where he protects 90,000+ em

Has Cybersecurity Failed Us?

We’ve spent billions on cybersecurity. Why are the problems the same? In the first episode of The Watchtower, Ash Hunt invites Jason Clark, CSO at Cyera, to dig into the

Welcome to The Watchtower

The systems we rely on weren’t built for the world we’re running today. Welcome to The Watchtower. The cybersecurity podcast exploring how identity, data, and behavior