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
48 episodes
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...
From Reactive to Predictive in AI Security with Jen Waltz
Cybersecurity has been trapped in a reactive cycle for years: a new threat emerges, a new tool gets purchased, and teams get overwhelmed by alerts. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with Jen Waltz (Chief Infor...
AI Security Is Still Software Security with Nicolas Moy
AI is being embedded into enterprise tools faster than most organizations can govern it. Productivity platforms, security systems, and development workflows now include AI capabilities by default, often without a single approval mom...
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The CISO’s Job in AI Is Not to Stop the Wave, But to Shape It with Travis Farral, CISO at Archaea Energy
AI did not arrive through a single decision. It crept into enterprises through productivity tools, cloud platforms, security products, and SaaS applications that teams were already using. Most organizations did not choose to adopt A...
AI Risk Is Mostly Not New with Michael Machado
AI has technically been around for years. What changed is not the math, it is the front door. Suddenly anyone in the organization can touch it, feed it data, and make decisions with it and that shift in accessibility is rewriting business risk....
AI as a Digital Co-Worker With the Experience of an Intern with Timothy Youngblood
As AI becomes embedded across security operations and business workflows, organizations are confronting a new reality. AI is no longer just a tool. It is behaving like a digital co-worker acting on data, surfacing decisions, and influencing out...
The CISO’s Role in AI Is to Lead the Risk Conversation with Mustapha Kebbeh, Chief Security Officer at UKG
AI adoption is accelerating across the enterprise, often faster than governance and risk models were designed to support. Boards want innovation. Business leaders want speed. Security teams are expected to manage risk in environments where the ...
When the Market Converges with Dan DeBacker
The market is converging. Networking, security, and cloud operations are no longer separate conversations. They are colliding at the operational layer, driven by hybrid environments, AI driven operations, and growing pressure to red...
From Reaction to Prediction in AI Security with Evan Kirstel
Security teams have spent years operating in reaction mode. Alerts fire, analysts scramble, and incident response often moves at human speed while adversaries move faster. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down wit...
Air Traffic Control for AI Security with Deputy CISO Aby Rao
AI has erased the perimeter. Security teams are no longer guarding walls — they’re managing airspace. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with Deputy CISO Aby Rao to unpack what AI security really looks l...
AI Only Works If Your Foundations Do: A Conversation with Dr. Anton Chuvakin
AI is not a fix for a broken SOC. It exposes weaknesses you already have. In this ClearTech Loop episode, Jo Peterson talks with Dr. Anton Chuvakin — Senior Security Staff in Google Cloud’s Office of the CISO and one of the most respected voice...
AI with Financial Intelligence: Turning Hype Into Measurable Value (with Ajay Patel, GM Apptio/IBM)
A practical framework for AI ROI: visibility, accountability, and value Episode description / show notes Last week, you probably caught my chat with Ajay Patel, GM of Apptio and IBM IT Automation. If you missed it...
