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Meet Tiffany and Matt for some intellectual banter where awareness prepares everyone.

A discussion on how to identify and deal with such tactics.

Where we talk about best practices in reducing operational risk from 3rd parties.

We discuss how organizations need to set up guardrails before deploying AI in their environment or the company.

In this episode we talk about how to combat compliance fatigue to avoid the regulatory minefield that could expose a company to significant financial and legal risks.

In this episode, we talk about Coinbase scams and what bad actor's do to compromise your crypto accounts.

In this episode, we talk about how to break into cybersecurity roles or jobs.

In this episode we talk about practical ways on how individuals or companies can go about in protecting data.

In this episode, we discuss the importance of having the right governance in place and meeting compliance needs to ensure trust in your AI portfolio of projects and/or programs.

In this episode, we discuss security tools such as a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) which helps log and monitor activities in an IT environment.

In this episode we talk about how AI Bias can be a real problem where it introduces reputational and/or legal risks.

In this episode, Tiff goes solo and shares her “Save the Date” Hack Story, where she shares her personal experience on how she became vulnerable to a scam, what she learned, and how others can protect themselves.

In this episode we talk about AI anxiety leading to mental health issues and how one can protect themselves. And ease the challenges they face by looking at AI for good vs. bad.

SOURCES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

  1. MIT Computer Science and AI Lab Study — "AI Is a Rising Tide, Not a Crashing Wave" (April 2, 2026) https://www.axios.com/2026/04/02/ai-jobs-mit-study-workforce-impact

  2. Harvard Business School Working Knowledge — "Research: How AI Is Changing the Labor Market" (March 4, 2026) https://hbr.org/2026/03/research-how-ai-is-changing-the-labor-market https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/enhance-or-eliminate-how-ai-will-likely-change-these-jobs

  3. Goldman Sachs Research — "The Jobs AI Is Likely to Boost — and Those It May Disrupt" (April 24, 2026) https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/the-jobs-ai-is-likely-to-boost-and-those-it-may-disrupt

  4. Spring Health Workplace Survey — "The Hidden Cost of AI Anxiety" (March 3, 2026) https://www.springhealth.com/blog/hidden-cost-ai-anxiety-workplace-stressor

  5. Modern Health / Fair Play Talks — "Seven in 10 Workers Fear AI Layoffs" (May 8, 2026) https://www.fairplaytalks.com/2026/05/08/seven-in-10-workers-fear-ai-layoffs-as-burnout-political-stress-and-workplace-distrust-surge/

  6. Frontiers in Psychology — "Algorithmic Anxiety: AI, Work, and the Evolving Psychological Contract" (February 17, 2026) https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1745164/full

  7. Frontiers in Psychology — "Mental Health in the Era of AI: Technostress and Anxiety" (2025) https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1600013/full

Free Learning Resources:

  1. University of Helsinki — Elements of AI (Free Course) https://www.elementsofai.com

  2. Google — AI Essentials / Grow with Google (Free) https://grow.google/ai

  3. IBM SkillsBuild — AI Foundations (Free with badges) https://skillsbuild.org

  4. OpenAI Academy (Free workshops and digital content) https://academy.openai.com

  5. DataCamp - "Best Free AI Courses 2026" (April 30, 2026) https://www.datacamp.com/blog/best-free-ai-courses

In this episode, we talk about the differences between AI Agents and Agentic AI. And a discussion on the risks associated with them.

SOURCES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

  1. Information Age / ACS — "Gone in 9 Seconds: AI Agent Deletes Company Database" (May 5, 2026) https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2026/gone-in-9-seconds--ai-agent-deletes-company-database.html

  2. Live Science — "I Violated Every Principle I Was Given: AI Agent Deletes Company's Entire Database in 9 Seconds" (April 29, 2026) https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/i-violated-every-principle-i-was-given-ai-agent-deletes-companys-entire-database-in-9-seconds-then-confesses

  3. Euronews — "An AI Agent Deleted a Company's Entire Database in 9 Seconds, Then Wrote an Apology" (April 28, 2026) https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/04/28/an-ai-agent-deleted-a-companys-entire-database-in-9-seconds-then-wrote-an-apology

  4. Tom's Hardware — "Claude-Powered AI Coding Agent Deletes Entire Company Database in 9 Seconds" (April 27, 2026) https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds

  5. CX Today — "Claude-Powered Cursor AI Agent Deletes an Entire Company Database in 9 Seconds" (April 29, 2026) https://www.cxtoday.com/security-privacy-compliance/claude-powered-cursor-ai-agent-deletes-an-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-is-your-customer-data-secure/

  6. Fortune — "Your Company's AI Could Delete Everything in 9 Seconds. ServiceNow Wants to Be the Kill Switch" (May 6, 2026) https://fortune.com/2026/05/06/servicenow-kill-switch-ai-agents-bill-mcdermott/

  7. AWS Official Announcement — Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments (Preview) (May 7, 2026) https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/amazon-bedrock-agentcore-payments-preview/

  8. AI Magazine — "AWS, Coinbase & Stripe Launch Autonomous Paying AI Agents" (May 7, 2026) https://aimagazine.com/news/aws-coinbase-stripe-launch-autonomous-paying-ai-agents

  9. CoinDesk — "Amazon's New AI Wallet: AWS, Coinbase, and Stripe Build Payment Rails for Bots" (May 7, 2026) https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/05/07/amazon-rolls-out-ai-agent-stablecoin-payments-platform-with-coinbase-and-stripe

  10. AI Business — "AI Agents News: Enterprises Contain AI Agents to Balance Risk, Reward" (May 5, 2026) https://aibusiness.com/generative-ai/agentic-ai

  11. Gartner — 40% of enterprise applications to integrate AI agents by end of 2026 (via ainews.ai) https://ainews.ai/agents

Free Learning Resources:

  1. DeepLearning.AI — Agentic AI Course (Free to Audit) by Andrew Ng https://learn.deeplearning.ai/courses/agentic-ai

  2. LangChain Academy — Introduction to LangGraph (Free) https://academy.langchain.com

  3. Salesforce Trailhead — AI Agent Course (Free, No Coding Required) https://www.salesforce.com/agentforce/ai-agent-course/
    MIT Computer Science and AI Lab Study — "AI Is a Rising Tide, Not a Crashing Wave" (April 2, 2026) https://www.axios.com/2026/04/02/ai-jobs-mit-study-workforce-impact

In this episode, we have a very special guest, Meenu of Cyber Advisory who walks us through what GRC or Governance, Risk, and Controls and the start of Cyber Advisory. And how Cyber Advisory helps entrepreneurs or start-ups ease their challenges in protecting their business from security risks and meeting compliance requirements in a highly regulated landscapes.

SOURCES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

  1. Cyber Advisory, LLC - cyberadvisoryllc.com

  2. What happened in the Power School App Breach? — https://www.security.org/identity-theft/breach/powerschool/

In this episode we speak about securing your AI tools and being aware of AI being used in nefarious ways, deepfakes, our thoughts and takes on it. Join us and listen and share your thoughts.

SOURCES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

  1. White House Executive Order on AI Innovation and Security (June 2, 2026) https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/promoting-advanced-artificial-intelligence-innovation-and-security/

  2. Federal News Network — AI Executive Order and Cybersecurity Directives (June 2, 2026) https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/06/ai-executive-order-sets-stage-for-new-cybersecurity-directives/

  3. Microsoft Build 2026 — Windows Platform Security for AI Agents (June 2, 2026) https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2026/06/02/windows-platform-security-for-ai-agents/

  4. OWASP GenAI Security Project — Infosecurity Europe Summit (June 4, 2026) https://genai.owasp.org/

  5. Cycode — Top AI Security Vulnerabilities to Watch in 2026 (March 2026) https://cycode.com/blog/ai-security-vulnerabilities/

  6. Entrust 2026 Identity Fraud Report — Deepfakes and Injection Attacks https://technologymagazine.com/news/cybercrime-when-the-sun-is-down-entrust-shows-attack-surge

  7. Keepnet Labs — Deepfake Statistics 2026 https://keepnetlabs.com/blog/deepfake-statistics-and-trends

  8. Bolds Media — AI Cybersecurity Threats 2026 https://www.boldsmedia.com/ai-cybersecurity-threats/

  9. Arup Deepfake Fraud Incident — $25M Wire Transfer (widely reported) Referenced in: Financial Times, Cycode, Stellar Cyber, World Economic Forum: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/02/deepfake-ai-cybercrime-arup/

  10. Stanford Real World AI Security Conference 2026 (June 23–25, 2026) https://seclab.stanford.edu/RealWorldAIsec

In this episode, we begin to discuss AI governance, specifically AI Agents that need to be treated like a workforce, only that its digital. But the same rules should apply as we would with the human workforce. We spend millions securing employees. So why are we giving AI agents access to the same systems without asking who's watching them. Join us and listen and share your thoughts.

SOURCES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

  1. Google DeepMind — Indirect Prompt Injection (Jan 29, 2025). How we estimate the risk from prompt injection attacks on AI systems- Google DeepMind — Prompt Injection Research

  2. Replit — AI Agent Database Incident (July 29, 2025). Doubling down on our commitment to secure vibe coding. Replit acknowledges the incident in which its Agent deleted data from an application's database and describes the subsequent development/production separation and rollback safeguards-Replit — Secure Vibe Coding / Database Incident. Replit also explains its new separation of development and production databases- Replit — Safer Vibe Coding with Databases

  3. Microsoft Security — AI Agents & MCP Tool Poisoning (June 30, 2026)- Securing AI agents: When AI tools move from reading to acting. Discusses MCP tool poisoning, agentic supply-chain risk, prompt injection and the transition from AI merely reading information to taking actions-Microsoft Security — Securing AI Agents

  4. Anthropic — Claude Cybersecurity Evaluation Incidents (July 30, 2026)-Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations. Anthropic describes three incidents where Claude models accessed the internet from evaluation environments and subsequently reached real third-party systems. Importantly, Anthropic attributes the incidents to a misconfiguration that left evaluation machines with live internet access-Anthropic — Cybersecurity Evaluation Incidents

  5. OpenAI — Model Misalignment Reporting Framework (Sept 16, 2026)-Our framework for reporting model misalignment. OpenAI describes its new framework for tracking and disclosing unexpected model behavior, including unauthorized actions and attempts to evade oversight. OpenAI also explicitly cautions that the individual examples aren't evidence of how frequently such behavior occurs across models-OpenAI — Model Misalignment Reporting Framework

In this episode we discuss the ASOS online retailer data security breach and how AI can now play a part in security incidents. We also speak on what folks can do to protect themselves. Join us and listen and share your thoughts.

SOURCES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

  1. ASOS — Official customer incident update

    • Date: October 2026, following the October 6 incident.

    • Key point: ASOS says an attacker impersonated a trusted contact to obtain employee login credentials, accessed certain third-party platforms, and may have accessed names and contact details. ASOS reported that payment-card information and account passwords were not accessed.

    • URL: https://www.asos.com/customer-care/engagement/unauthorised-asos-notification/

  2. UK National Cyber Security Centre — Incident affecting ASOS customers

  3. Reuters — South Korea and Japan face cyberattacks as AI lowers the barrier for criminals

  4. Reuters — Cyberattack affects connected refrigeration systems at French supermarkets

  5. BleepingComputer — Anthropic restricts internet access for certain high-risk AI testing

  6. Background research — Sysdig's reported agentic ransomware case

    • Reported: July 2026; outside the two-week news window.

    • Key point: Sysdig described an AI-driven operation dubbed JadePuffer that exploited a vulnerable Langflow instance, obtained credentials, moved to another system, and encrypted configuration records. Attribute technical details to the researchers' report.

    • Related reporting: https://www.csoonline.com/article/4193195

  7. Background reporting — Unit 42 research into AI-assisted intrusion

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