Best Enterprise Software Defenders Podcasts (2025)

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Defending the realm: Trust and safety at Stack Overflow 37:25

23h ago37:25

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The Trust and Safety team is using aliases in this episode. Learn more about who the Community Management team is at Stack Overflow. Explore how we keep our community safe in our Code of Conduct. Congratulations to Lifeboat badge recipient Arvin Yorro, who won it for their helpful answer to the question Docker Desktop - WSL update failed.…

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"My job is going to change in a dramatic way”: Exploring the future of the internet with Cloudflare 23:09

2d ago23:09

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Dane shares his excitement about the Model Context Protocol (MCP), exploring its potential impact on the future of technology. The discussion turns to the growing need for sustainable content monetization and fair compensation for creators in an AI-driven world, and how this connects to Cloudflare’s mission to build a better internet. The conversat…

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After 30 years, Java is still brewing up new features 27:31

4d ago27:31

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Connect with Georges on LinkedIn and see his work on inside.java. Listen to our previous episode with Georges, a celebration of Java’s 25th anniversary. Today we’re shouting out the age-old question What is a NullPointerException, and how do I fix it?, which was answered 31 times as a community effort.…

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Insider threats, migrating away from cloud, RSAC interviews with Cyera and Blumira - Rob Allen, Matthew Warner, Yotam Segev - ESW #411 1:19:04

5d ago1:19:04

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Segment 1 - Interview with Rob Allen from Threatlocker Segment 2 - Topic: Growing Trend - Edge Computing and Hybrid Cloud Segment 3 - Interviews from RSAC 2025 Cyera Cyera is the fastest-growing data security company in history, empowering companies to classify, secure, and manage their data, wherever it is, and leverage the power of the industry’s…

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“We’re not worried about compute anymore”: The future of AI models 25:51

8d ago25:51

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Together AI is a platform for building with open-source and specialized multimodal models. Check out their docs. Connect with Jamie on LinkedIn. Shoutout to user aryaxt who earned a Stellar Question badge by wondering about MySQL Data - Best way to implement paging?.By Ryan Donovan, Ben, Jamie de Guerre

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Better vibes and vibe coding with Gemini 2.5 33:03

11d ago33:03

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Gemini 2.5 is DeepMind’s most advanced model yet, with strong reasoning and coding capabilities. Connect with Tulsee on LinkedIn. Connect with Logan on LinkedIn and Stack Overflow. Check out our previous episode with Logan, we discussed his unique path from coding to AI to product, the challenges of non-determinism in AI models, and surprising less…

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The enterprise security news, more secure by removing credentials, & RSAC interviews - Marty Momdjian, Amit Saha, Dr. Tina Srivastava - ESW #410 1:38:02

12d ago1:38:02

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Segment 1 - Enterprise Security News, Live at IDV This week, in the enterprise security news, Acquisitions potential IPOs Terminator Salvation in real life First $1B one-employee business? Mikko puts in his notice Pitch Black in real life, and more! Segment 2 - Interview with Dr. Tina Srivastava The #1 cause of data breaches is stolen credentials. …

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Banking on a serverless world 23:28

14d ago23:28

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Explore how Capital One is using tech to innovate the banking experience here. Connect with Kathleen on LinkedIn and visit her blog. Shoutout to user Theraot for answering the questions How to connect a signal with extra arguments in Godot 4, which won them a Lifeboat badge.By Ryan Donovan, Kathleen Vignos

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If an attacker can edit your mobile code, how do you defend your app? 28:31

15d ago28:31

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SPONSORED BY GUARDSQUARE Learn more about mobile application security and how to protect your app. Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Chitrakshi for rescuing TypeScript Error: No overload matches this call in Express route handler.By Stack Overflow

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In a deterministic simulation, you can debug with time travel 28:20

18d ago28:20

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Antithesis is an autonomous testing platform that finds bugs in your software with perfect reproducibility. Connect with Will Wilson on Linkedin. Congrats to user hannes neukermans whose question How can I do tag wrapping in Visual Studio Code? won them a Stellar Question badge. Our 2025 Developer Survey is live! We want to know what your developer…

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Building Cyber Resilience: AI Threats, Mid-Market Risks & Ransomware Trends - Karl Van den Bergh, Tony Anscombe, Eyal Benishti, Nick Carroll, Chad Alessi, Chris Peluso - ESW #409 1:38:33

19d ago1:38:33

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Segment 1 CTG Interview Middle market companies face unique challenges in the ever-evolving cyber environment. Developing a comprehensive cybersecurity approach is a business imperative for middle market companies, and Chad Alessi will discuss the threat landscape, what’s keeping IT decision-makers awkward at night, and the best approach to creatin…

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Getting rid of the pain for developers on Shopify 30:05

21d ago30:05

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Check out Shopify’s newest updates on their editions page, including Horizons and their new AI capabilities with Sidekick. Connect with Glen Coates on LinkedIn and X. Shoutout to Stellar Question badge winner nouptime for asking Converting string to byte array in C#.By Ryan Donovan, Glen Coates

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Understanding the limitations of AI is crucial for enterprise success 32:03

23d ago32:03

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The discussion also: Touches on the role, evolution, and adoption of AI agents, emphasizing their growing integration into systems, while addressing key safeguarding measures to ensure AI agents can accurately use data to reason effectively. Explores how Abnormal AI utilizes AI to detect and protect against cybersecurity threats, and how Dan and hi…

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Behavior Is the Battlefield: Rethinking the Cyber Perimeter with Expeditors VP & CISO Rob Nolan 29:41

22d ago29:41

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On the 28th episode of Enterprise AI Defenders, hosts Evan Reiser and Mike Britton, both executives at Abnormal AI, talk with Rob Nolan, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Expeditors. Expeditors is a Fortune 500 freight and logistics company, powering over 25% of all U.S. customs clearance. They enable global trade and supply …

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“The future is agents”: Building a platform for RAG agents 32:29

25d ago32:29

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Contextual AI offers a platform for building RAG agents. Get started with their docs here. Connect with Douwe on LinkedIn. Congrats to Stack Overflow user Smrutiranjan Sahu, who earned a Stellar Question badge by asking How to define type for a function callback (as any function type, not universal any) used in a method parameter.…

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Reality check on SOC AI; Enterprise News; runZero and Imprivata RSAC interviews - Erik Bloch, HD Moore, Joel Burleson-Davis - ESW #408 1:49:38

26d ago1:49:38

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Segment 1: Erik Bloch Interview The math on SOC AI just isn't adding up. It's not easy to do the math, either, as each SOC automation vendor is tackling alert fatigue and SecOps assistants a bit differently. Fortunately for us and our audience, Erik Bloch met with many of these vendors at RSAC and is going to share what he learned with us! Segment …

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WBIT #8: Typescript for gut biomes 44:40

25d ago44:40

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Jona provides an AI-powered gut biome test for clinicians and patients alike. Connect with Tyler on Twitter.By Stack Overflow

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Can a dev environment spark joy? The Android team thinks so. 37:02

29d ago37:02

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Get the whole rundown of what’s new in this version of Android Developer’s Studio. Google I/O just happened, and the Android team announced a bunch of things. Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn. Congrats to Populist badge winner chudo xl for their answer to Android app stuck at "Launching on Devices" or 'device 'DEVICEID' not found' error.…

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Durable execution: autosave for your microservices 22:35

1M ago22:35

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DBOS Transact is a lightweight, open-source library that makes durable execution simple so you no longer need to worry about manually coding retries and recovery procedures. Connect with Jeremy on LinkedIn. Connect with Qian on LinkedIn. Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Vanita L., whose answer to What does the Swift 'mutating' keyword mean? earned t…

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The State of Cybersecurity Readiness for the Next Big Emergency - David Aviv, Bri Frost, Marshall Erwin - ESW #407 2:12:42

1M ago2:12:42

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Segment 1: Fastly Interview In this week's interview segment, we talk to Marshall Erwin about the state of cybersecurity, particularly when it comes to third party risk management, and whether we're ready for the next big SolarWinds or Crowdstrike incident. These big incidents have inspired executive orders, the Secure by Design initiative, and eve…

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Salesforce wants to do for agentic AI what they did for SaaS 29:17

1M ago29:17

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The new Salesforce Developer Edition includes access to Data Cloud and Agentforce, Salesforce’s platform for building, customizing, and deploying autonomous AI agents. Developers can sign up here to start building. Connect with Christophe on LinkedIn. Instead of a badge, we have a question for you: If you are a developer who is working with AI age…

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Next-level observability: live breakpoint debugging 26:27

1M ago26:27

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Dynatrace is an AI-powered observability platform. It empowers today’s AI-enabled digital enterprises to understand their systems and data so they can analyze, automate, and innovate faster. Learn more about Dynatrace’s Live Debugger. Connect with Henrik Rexed on LinkedIn or check out Is it Observable on YouTube.…

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Is the enterprise (actually) ready for AI? 29:08

1M ago29:08

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watsonx.ai is an enterprise-grade AI studio. Developers can get started in the watsonx Developer Hub. We published a technical behind-the-scenes look at watsonx, as well as a Q&A on why it’s business-ready. Find Maryam on LinkedIn. Congrats to Stack Overflow user Michael Kolber, who earned a Lifeboat badge with a straightforward and effective answe…

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Secrets and their role in infrastructure security - Jawahar Sivasankaran, Chas Clawson, Sergey Gorbaty, Fernando Medrano - ESW #406 2:14:05

1M ago2:14:05

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Segment 1 - Secrets and their role in infrastructure security From API keys and tokens to environment variables and credentials, secrets are foundational—and often overlooked—attack surfaces in cloud-native and distributed systems. We break down the risks tied to poor secret hygiene, discuss emerging patterns for secure secret management at scale, …

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Using AI to find patient zero in marketing campaigns 28:01

1M ago28:01

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Alembic is an AI platform that helps organizations see how marketing spend connects to revenue so they can illuminate blind spots and make more informed business decisions. Connect with Abby on LinkedIn. Stack Overflow user krishnan muthiah pillai earned a Lifeboat badge with a top-notch answer to How to forget a wireless network in android program…

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Moving beyond velocity: Measuring real business impact 30:32

1M ago30:32

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In this episode of Leaders of Code, Dan Lines, cofounder and COO of LinearB; Ben Matthews, Senior Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow; and host Ben Popper talk about why velocity should be a diagnostic tool, not the primary goal of engineering teams. They also touch on the need for cross-disciplinary collaboration to align engineering with bu…

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Mastering microservices with a former Uber and Netflix architect 30:26

2M ago30:26

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Orkes is a developer-first enterprise workflow orchestration platform. Explore the developer edition or dive into the docs. Before cofounding Orkes, Jeu was an architect at Uber and Netflix. Find him on LinkedIn. Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Alex Stiff, whose answer to Bash - Sort a list of strings earned them a Lifeboat badge.…

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2025 Security Trends: Identity, Endpoint, Cloud & the Rise of Browser Threats - Jason Mical, Lori Robinson, Hed Kovetz, Rob Allen, Vivek Ramachandran, Alex Pinto - ESW #405 1:42:43

2M ago1:42:43

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Now in its 18th year, the Verizon Business DBIR is one of the industry’s longest standing and leading reports on the current cybersecurity landscape. This year’s report analyzes more than 22,000 security incidents with victims spanning 139 countries, examining significant growth in third-party involvement in breaches, increases in ransomware and ex…

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Improving on a 30-year-old hardware architecture 34:54

2M ago34:54

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SambaNova makes a full-stack AI platform and an “intelligent chip” capable of running models of up to five trillion parameters, allowing developers to run state-of-the-art open source models without the time-consuming work of tuning and modeling. See what developers are building with the tech. Find Rodrigo on LinkedIn. This episode was recorded at …

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“We’re not replacing you; we’re with you”: Where AI meets infrastructure 21:22

2M ago21:22

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The Geminus platform is built to automatically integrate data, physics, and computation for autonomous control of complex systems. Explore the platform or get in touch. Find Greg on LinkedIn.By Greg Fallon, Ryan Donovan

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The Future of Access Management - Jeff Shiner - ESW #404 2:00:22

2M ago2:00:22

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As organizations embrace hybrid work, SaaS sprawl, and employee-owned devices, traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) tools are failing to keep up. The rise of shadow IT, unmanaged applications, and evolving cyber threats have created an "Access-Trust Gap", a critical security challenge where IT lacks visibility and control over how emplo…

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Grab bag! On the floor at HumanX 17:55

2M ago17:55

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Paul Dhaliwal is the founder and CEO of CodeConductor. Priya Joseph is the AI field CEO at DDN. Lizzie Siegle is a developer advocate at Cloudflare. Erin Mikail Staples is a developer experience engineer at Galileo. This episode was recorded at HumanX last month. Next year’s event will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today!…

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Standardization and simplification as key to engineering excellence 23:44

2M ago23:44

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They also discuss: Lloyds Banking Group's multi-year journey to drive simplification and standardization, reduce cognitive load & improve engineering efficiency, and enhance developer happiness. Challenges engineering teams face today, along with the cultural shifts in regulatory environments. Episode notes: Connect with Hilary Lanham and Tom Kelk.…

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Real World Risks: AI & Cybersecurity in Crisis Zones with Save the Children International Global CISO Gareth Packham 32:11

2M ago32:11

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On the 27th episode of Enterprise AI Defenders, hosts Evan Reiser and Mike Britton, both executives at Abnormal AI, talk with Gareth Packham, Chief Information Security Officer at Save the Children International. Save the Children is one of the world's largest nonprofit organizations focused on protecting the rights and well-being of children. Oper…

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Visually orchestrating data diagnostics but platform agnostic 23:02

2M ago23:02

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Dataiku orchestrates data stacks and lets you create analytics, models, and agents. Find Florian on LinkedIn. This episode was recorded at HumanX last month. Next year’s conference will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today!By Stack Overflow

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The past, present, and future of enterprise AI - Matthew Toussain, Pravi Devineni - ESW #403 2:11:51

2M ago2:11:51

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In this interview, we're excited to speak with Pravi Devineni, who was into AI before it was insane. Pravi has a PhD in AI and remembers the days when machine learning (ML) and AI were synonymous. This is where we'll start our conversation: trying to get some perspective around how generative AI has changed the overall landscape of AI in the enterp…

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Generating components, not tokens 23:59

2M ago23:59

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Bit lets you generate composable software simplicity, speed and quality. Connect with Laly on LinkedIn. Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner and blog contributor Charlie Martin for their answer to How does this proof, that the halting problem is undecidable, work? .By Stack Overflow

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WBIT #7: Exploring WebAssembly with the first SO user to get 10k rep 36:28

2M ago36:28

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Kyle notes that his only experience with WebAssembly is Blazor. If you’re wondering about Blazor, we covered it on the blog in 2020. While Michael may have been the first user to get 10,000 rep, he’s not stopping there. His current employer, neuRealities, is still in stealth mode, shhhh. Find Michael on his blog and possibly elsewhere.…

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How AI can prevent clinician burnout 18:14

2M ago18:14

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Lunar Analytics specializes in AI-powered claim optimization and healthcare solutions. Connect with Richard on LinkedIn. Knowtex allows healthcare providers to automate clinical workflows with generative AI. Connect with Caroline on LinkedIn. Delve Deep Learning provides artificial intelligence solutions for public affairs. Connect with Jeff on Lin…

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What is old is new again: default deny on the endpoint - Colby DeRodeff, Danny Jenkins - ESW #402 2:03:21

2M ago2:03:21

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Default deny is an old, and very recognizable term in security. Most folks that have been in the industry for a long time will associate the concept with firewall rules. The old network firewalls, positioned between the public Internet and private data centers, however, were relatively uncomplicated and static. Most businesses had a few hundred fir…

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How do you fact-check an AI? 26:46

2M ago26:46

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Vectara is a platform-as-a-service that allows users to build AI assistants and agents. Get started with their docs. This interview was recorded at HumanX last month. They are gearing up for next year’s conference on April 6-9, 2026. Follow Amr on LinkedIn.By Ryan Donovan, Amr Awadallah

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“There is a real cost to moving fast”: Using AI to accelerate drug discovery 25:23

2M ago25:23

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They also: Explore key challenges engineering leaders face, including data capacity, relevance, and throttling issues. Highlight how emerging AI tools and applications are transforming software engineering practices. Episode notes: Connect with Maureen Makes on LinkedIn. Learn more about Recursion and their open roles here. Read about Knowledge Sol…

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WBIT #6: Be curious, ask questions, and don’t argue with JavaScript 44:30

2M ago44:30

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When this episode was recorded, Jesse worked for WaveSeven Consulting, which provides business advisory and project delivery support for media and entertainment companies. He now works for ClickUp, same as previous Stack Overflow Podcast guest, RJ Tuit. Read Jesse’s hot takes on his blog. You can connect with Jesse as Jtomchak on all the socials.…

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Bottom of the first: A veteran VC’s take on the AI landscape 28:00

2M ago28:00

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Tomasz is a general partner at Theory Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage software companies. He’s a coauthor of Winning with Data, a deep dive into how big data has changed business best practices and organizational culture. Tomasz was on the podcast back in 2023. Give it a listen! Explore Tomasz’s writing. Follow Tomasz on Lin…

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Soft skills for engineers - Evgeniy Kharam, Paul Nguyen - ESW #401 2:03:22

3M ago2:03:22

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When we use the phrase "talent gap" in cybersecurity, we're usually talking about adding headcount. For this interview, however, we're focusing on a gap that is evident within existing teams and practitioners - the often misunderstood soft skills gap. Side note: I really hate the term "soft skills". How about we call them "fundamental business skil…

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Is AI a bubble or a revolution? The answer is yes. 33:05

3M ago33:05

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2024 was a defining year for AI investment. Read the HumanX/Crunchbase report. You can learn more about HumanX or register for next year’s event, April 7-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Follow Stefan on LinkedIn. Follow Jager on LinkedIn.By Ryan Donovan, Stefan Weitz, Jager McConnell

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Approaching AI, Identity, and Scale with Former Unilever CISO Kirsten Davies 26:12

3M ago26:12

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On the 26th episode of Enterprise AI Defenders, hosts Evan Reiser and Mike Britton, both executives at Abnormal Security, talk with Kirsten Davies, former Chief Information Security Officer at The Estée Lauder Companies and Unilever and founder of The Institute for Cyber. Kirsten's storied career has given her a front-row seat to understanding the …

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Boots on the ground: Holistic AI and Audioshake at HumanX 24:25

3M ago24:25

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Holistic AI is an AI governance platform that helps the enterprise adopt and scale AI. Audioshake uses AI to mix, master, and separate music and other audio content. Learn more about HumanX here. Feeling the FOMO? The event takes place again on April 7-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Early birds can register here. Connect with Raj on LinkedIn. Connect wi…

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Setting up your SIEM for success - Pitfalls to preclude and tips to take - Geoff Cairns, Neil Desai - ESW #400 1:58:15

3M ago1:58:15

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A successful SIEM deployment depends on a lot more than implementing the SIEM correctly. So many other things in your environment have an impact on your chances of a successful SIEM. Are the right logs enabled? Is your EDR working correctly? Would you notice a sudden increase or decrease in events from critical sources? What can practitioners do to…

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“Are AI agents ready for the enterprise?” 28:20

3M ago28:20

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Deepak works on Amazon Q Developer, a GenAI-powered coding assistant that includes autonomous agents. Thinking, Fast and Slow by psychologist Daniel Kahneman is one of those books that’s a classic for a reason—and it’s more relevant to today’s AI landscape than you might think. Connect with Deepak on LinkedIn. Congrats to Stack Overflow user Morten…

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