AI Security, Cyber Risk, and Cloud Strategy on ClearTech Loop
Season 2 of ClearTech Loop is built around three questions:
How is AI changing the way organizations think about risk?
What does stronger cybersecurity leadership look like right now?
How should leaders rethink cloud strategy as business and technology keep shifting?
Hosted by Jo Peterson, Chief Analyst at ClearTech Research, ClearTech Loop is a fast, focused podcast covering AI, cybersecurity, and cloud risk through a business leadership lens.
Each 10-15 minute episode explores the issues shaping modern technology strategy and the decisions leaders cannot afford to ignore.
From governance and resilience to infrastructure change and emerging risk, ClearTech Loop helps leaders make sense of what is shifting, what matters most, and what comes next.
Episodes
59 episodes
Your AI Agents Are Already Running. Can You See Them? | Alvaro Gonzalez
AI agents can hold credentials, access sensitive data, make decisions and even create other identities. But many organizations still cannot answer a basic question: what is actually running in the environment? In this episode...
AI Agents Are New. The Security Fundamentals Are Not
The conversation around AI is shifting from what agents can do to how enterprises actually govern and secure them. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with cybersecurity professional Marcus Cylar to tal...
Can AI Agents Earn Your Trust? Elliott Mattice on AI Governance
What if an AI agent had to earn—and keep—its access based on how it behaved? In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with Elliott Mattice, founder of Exprima, to examine trust as the missing operating layer between ...
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What Happens When an AI Agent Acts Without Permission?
What happens when an AI agent takes an action no one authorized? The answer is not, “The model did it.” In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with cybersecurity and technology executive Billy Spears to...
Okta’s AI Blueprint: Moving AI Agents from Shadow to Governed
AI agents are becoming part of the enterprise workforce, but many organizations still do not know where those agents are, what they can access, or what they are allowed to do. In this ClearTech Loop Special Edition sponsored by Okta...
Derek Fisher on AI Governance, AI Agents & MCP Risk
AI governance is no longer just a policy conversation. As AI moves into business workflows, sanctioned platforms, employee tools, local models, agents, and third-party services, organizations need to understand where AI is being used, what it c...
AWS Security Hub: Centralized Identity Risk Management for Agentic AI
In this ClearTech Loop Special Edition from AWS Summit New York, Jo Peterson speaks with Himanshu Verma, Worldwide Leader for Security, Identity, and Governance Specialists at AWS, about how agentic AI is changing the identity risk conversation...
The USB Problem for AI: Phil Stafford on Agents, Governance, and MCP Risk
Short Description Season 3 of ClearTech Loop kicks off with AI security architect Phil Stafford in a practical conversation about AI governance, agent permissions, fractional identity, and why MCP servers may be the next soft...
AI Security: Gerald Auger on Shadow AI, Non Human Identities, and AI Defense
AI is moving faster than policy, training, and many traditional controls were designed to handle. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with Gerald Auger, Chief Content Creator of Simply Cyber, about sha...
AI Security: Maybelyn Plecic on Shadow AI, Non Human Identities, and AI Defense
Your AI policy does not matter much if no one understands how to follow it. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with Maybelyn Plecic, Manager of Training and Adoption at Network to Code, about shadow AI, non human i...
AI Security: Patricia Titus on Shadow AI, Non-Human Identities, and AI Defense
AI security is not showing up as one clean problem. It is showing up across governance, risk, productivity, identity, API security, and defense. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with seasoned C...
ClearTech Loop Special Edition: Rethinking CDN Pricing with AWS CloudFront
Cloud pricing can look simple until the bill arrives. In this ClearTech Loop Special Edition, Jo Peterson talks with Cristian Graziano, Principal Product Manager at Amazon Web Services, about AWS CloudFront flat rate plans an...
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AI Security Starts with Education: James McQuiggan on Shadow AI, NHIs, and AI Defense
AI security is not only about policies, tools, and controls. It is also about education. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with James McQuiggan, founder and CISO of Apparent Security, about shadow AI...
AI Security: Shadow AI, Non Human Identities, and AI Defense (Rock Lambros)
AI is already inside your environment. The problem is most organizations don’t fully see where or how it’s being used. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with Rock Lambros, CEO of RockCyber, to break d...
AI Security: Todd Smith on Shadow AI, NHIs, and AI Defense
What does AI security actually look like inside real organizations? In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with Todd Smith, SVP and Director of Customer IAM and Threat Intelligence at Ameris Bank, about shadow A...
AI Security: Thomas Bryant on Shadow AI, NHIs, and AI Defense
What does AI security actually look like inside real organizations? In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with Thomas Bryant, Director of Technical Marketing at Pure Storage and independent analyst and consultant at T...
ResOps: Bridging Security & Operations for Smarter Cyber Recovery
When ransomware strikes, even the most prepared organizations can find themselves scrambling—security hunting for indicators while IT races to spin up restores. It’s a recipe for confusion and downtime.Chris Bevel, Practice Lead for Cybe...
AI Security: Matt Sharp on Shadow AI, NHIs, and AI Defense
What does AI security actually look like inside real organizations? In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with Matt Sharp, Chief Information Security Officer at Xactly, about shadow AI, non human identities, and what ...
AI Security Is a Risk Leadership Problem First with Gerry Gadoury
In this episode of the ClearTech Loop podcast, Jo Peterson sits down with Gerry Gadoury to talk about what AI security leadership actually requires as the threat landscape changes faster and the business pressure around AI keeps rising.
Cybersecurity Is a Social System with Fernando
In this episode of the ClearTech Loop podcast, Jo Peterson sits down with Fernando Montenegro to talk about what the CISO role actually looks like right now as generative AI spreads across the enterprise. This is not a conversation...
Security Is an Environment with Miri Rodriguez
What CISOs miss when security only lives in features AI security is still getting framed like a technology problem: new tools, new controls, new dashboards, and new rules. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peters...
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AI, Cost, Control, and Relevance with Margaret Dawson, CMO, SUSE
AI is getting embedded into everything, security workflows, engineering workflows, and customer facing products, often faster than organizations can govern it. The upside is real. The risk is in the assumptions leaders are making while they cha...
AI Security Needs Better Execution with Zach Lewis (CIO/CISO | Author, Locked Up)
AI security is getting marketed like it requires a brand-new playbook—new frameworks, new job titles, new spend. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with Zach Lewis (CIO/CISO and author of Locked Up) fo...
Governance Is a Catalyst in AI Security with Stefano Righi (AMI)
AI is speeding up both attackers and defenders. The goal is not speed alone. The goal is speed with trust. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with Stefano Righi, Chief Security Architect at AMI, for a hot take ...
From Tool-Driven Cyber to Adaptive AI Defense with Ryan Lutz
Cybersecurity has become a tool driven industry. Organizations buy platforms, stack controls, generate alerts, and ask humans to stitch it all together under pressure. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down...
