Cybersecurity News & Analysis by Cyber Sidekicks - Your Weekly Update’
Episodes
2025 Cybersecurity Market Recap Part #1: More M&A as Deal Sizes Increase!
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the first of our recap of the 2025 cybersecurity market, Christina & I delve into the continuing boom in M&A that has fuelled consolidation...
2026 Cybersecurity Predictions: Agents, Defence Perimeters & Quantum Resistance
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our first, annual predictions special episode! We delve into what we believe 2026 will mean for the cybersecurity industry, including what trends, tec...
Palo Alto Networks snaps up Chronosphere: is it $3.35B well spent?
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss the under-the-radar purchase by Palo Alto Networks of observability specialist Chronosphere for $3.35 billion: what does it mea...
Identities for AI Agents? Cybersecurity expert Harold Moss discusses bots, visibility & why skills matter
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We had a wide-ranging chat with renowned cybersecurity researcher, innovator and author Harold Moss, looking at why we need to treat AI Agents like pe...
Exploring Cybersecurity Complexity: Data Lakehouses & Digital Risk with Fortra's Cary Hudgins
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cary Hudgins, VP of Product Management for Fortra's Cyber Portfolio joins us this week to chaqt about the increasing complexity of cybersecurity, part...
AI & Incident Readiness: Deepfakes & Tabletop Cybersecurity Exercises with Ekco's Mike Perez
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Mike Perez, a Director at managed IT and security services provider Ekco chats to us about Digital Loss Prevention (DLP), incident readines...
AI Agents, Bots & Identity: A State of the Market with Andy Ash, CISO at Netacea
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oh boy, we had a wide-ranging and detailed discussion this week with Andy Ash (aka "Andy Two"), CISO at Netacea about the role of AI agents and bots i...
Security: a multi-layered, programmatic approach - with Charles Henderson of Coalfire
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Christina has a great chat with Charles Henderson, EVP & Head of DivisionHex at Coalfire. The discussion covers offensive and defensive...
"... it was DNS": AWS outage chat with Sean Deuby, Principal Technologist at Semperis
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lots to talk about this week as we dissect the AWS outage, what the implications are for resiliency, and AWS' own advice about how to mitigate depende...
LevelBlue to acquire Cybereason as autumn M&A activity kicks off!
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Big M&A news of the week as we discuss the announcement that LevelBlue will be acquiring Cybereason! We also have a great discussion about secur...
Post-Quantum Cryptography Management: with IBM's Chaitanya Challa
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Chaitanya Challa, Product Leader, IBM Data Security & Quantum Safe. Having just released the IBM Guardium Cryptography Mana...
Finding the Evidence: Digital Forensics, AI & Incident Response with CyXcel's Danny Howett
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lots to discuss this week! We find out about what's happening in the world of AI, Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) with Danny Howett, ...
AI & Policy Management: the customer perspective with Kyle Wickert, Field CTO at AlgoSec
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we have an in-depth chat with Kyle Wickert, Field CTO at AlgoSec about Cloud 2.0 / Network 2.0 and what his customers are saying to hi...
API vulnerabilities & AI: Cequence Security's Randolph Barr tells us why we should care!
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode sees us in discussion with the globetrotting CISO of Cequence Security, Randolph Barr about everything to do with AI, preventing A...
Agentic AI: Why your SecOps is at risk and what to do about it - with Rock Lambros
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rock Lambros, CEO & Founder of Rock Cyber joins us again this week to delve deeper into the emerging opportunities, risks and challenges of using ...
AI Compliance & Governance: why it matters - with ISMS Online's Chris Newton-Smith
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we chat with Chris Newton-Smith, CEO of ISMS Online about AI compliance, governance and the regulatory requirements relating to ISO 42001, t...
OWASP Agentic AI SecOps deep dive: Solutions & Framework!
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we delve into OWASP's recently-released OWASP Agentic AI SecOps Framework and Market Landscape report: https://genai.owasp.org/resource/ai-s...
Why Business Fundamentals Matter: a Cybersecurity 101 with Simon Hodgkinson, Strategic Advisor to Semperis.
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is Simon Hodgkinson, Strategic Advisor to security firm Semperis. We chat about the importance of business fundamentals, the data an...
AI, Agents & Cybersecurity: Managing the Challenges & Risks with IBM's Mark Hughes
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's special 30th Episode (woot!) we have a great discussion with IBM's Global Managing Partner of Cybersecurity Services, Mark Hughes aroun...
SentinelOne acquires Prompt Security; Cyber warfare tabletops with Nate Case!
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week: more M&A news as SentinelOne announces its plan to acquire Prompt Security. Also, special guest Nate Case of Clarity talks about cyber ...
Summer of Cyber M&A: Palo Alto Networks drops a hot $25 billion on CyberArk!
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode we cover the latest hot cybersecurity M&A deal of the year, as Palo Alto Network announces it intent to acquire identity sp...
AI in cybersecurity: too many alerts? Erik Bloch of Illumio explains why...
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Erik Bloch, VP of Security at Illumio outlines why he believes that 90%+ of AI-generated alerts are trivial or benign, and what affect this...
Agentic AI & Security - with Zenity's Kayla Underkoffler
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's all about AI Agents as we chat with Kayla Underkoffler, Lead Security Engineer in the Office of the CTO at Zenity - LI profile: linkedi...
Post Quantum Cryptography, AI & Sovereignty: Insights from Utimaco's Nils Gerhardt
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have an in-depth discussion about post quantum cryptography (PQC), AI & digital sovereignty with Utimaco's CTO, Nils Gerhardt Leave u...
LevelBlue to acquire Trustwave / API Security discussion with Wallarm
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we deep-dive into LevelBlue's announced plan to acquire Trustwave. We also have a great discussion with Wallarm's Tim Erlin about what...
AI, Identity & Trust: a chat with GitLab's Julie Davila
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is GitLab's VP of Product Security Julie Davila We chat about AI, identity, trust in the context of the latest cybersecurity trends,...
AI, Business Risk & Threat Management: a CISO’s guide
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s special guest Kayne McGladrey, (blog: kaynemcgladrey.com ), CISO-in-Residence at Hyperproof, outlines the business challenges that CISO'...
AI Cybersecurity Podcast Takeover!
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rory is off this week due to illness, so this episode is brought to you by two AI hosts who discuss some of our latest research and what services Rich...
The Human Threats in Cybersecurity - Insights from Nisos’ Ryan LaSalle
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest - Ryan LaSalle, CEO of Human Threat Management solutions vendor Nisos - discusses how to identify human exposure, behavioral pattern...
AI & the Future of Pentesting - Insights from NetSPI’s Kurtis Shelton
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss the future of penetration testing and AI in cybersecurity with NetSPI’s Principal AI Researcher Kurtis Shelton. Leave us a mess...
The State of Incident Response with Trustwave’s Damian Archer
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week: The challenges of talent & recruitment in the security services sector and the state of the incident response market with Trustwave's ...
AI Agents & Threat Intelligence - Insights from Verizon DBIR with Alex Pinto'
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
THIS WEEK Verizon DBIR, AI Agents and the Future of Threat Intelligence with Special Guest Alex Pinto, Associate Director of Threat Intelligence at Ve...
RSAC 2025 Recap - Identity Hygiene & AI Insights
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Show Notes In an extended episode this week, we recap on who we met and what we saw at RSAC 2025! We also talk identity hygiene and AI Agents with Ros...
Live from RSAC 2025 - Cybersecurity Insights with IBM
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
LIVE FROM RSAC 2025 This week's episode was recorded live at RSAC 2025! For the first time we recorded using video: https://youtu.be/1LcUnxaJOaI We di...
Chatting with Microsoft's Ed Martin about cybersecurity - Cyber Sidekicks EP#14
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SHOW NOTES This week's Special Guest Our special guest this week is veteran cybersecurity expert Ed Martin, who leads the Product Management function ...
IBM X-Force 2025 Threat Intelligence Index - Cyber Sidekicks EP13
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NEWS IBM X-Force 2025 Threat Intelligence Index AI Hallucinations Create a New Software Supply Chain Threat RSA & Security Tinkerers Informatio...
Google Unified Security announcement, Cyber Sidekicks EP#12
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes NEWS Google announces Google Unified Security (GUS) Oracle Faces Mounting Criticism as It Notifies Customers of Hack RSA & Security ...
AI Security Survey Results Preview, Cyber Sidekicks EP#11, 8 March 2025
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes AI SECURITY SURVEY RESULTS PREVIEW Richmond Advisory Group has surveyed 300 US-based security professionals regarding their use and plan...
Crypto hunting rats? Cyber Sidekicks Ep#10, 1 April 2025
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
S1 EPISODE#10 - SHOW NOTES SEND US A MESSAGE! Want to leave some feedback and suggestions but would prefer not to write an email? You can leave us a v...
S1E9 - $32 billion?? Gee Wiz! Cyber Sidekicks EP#9
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes SPECIAL EPISODE This week is devoted to a deep-dive discussion about Google's announcement that it plans to acquire Wiz for $32 billion....
S1E8 - Cyber Sidekicks EP#8 - 18 MARCH 2025
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes NEWS New CCA Jailbreak Method Works Against Most AI Models New Polymorphic Attack That Mimics Any Chrome Extension Installed On The Bro...
S1E7 - Cyber Sidekicks EP#7 - 11 MARCH 2025
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes NEWS Trustwave will no longer be merging with Cybereason Shocking? Or not really a surprise? In an open letter to clients, partners, tru...
S1E6 - Cyber Sidekicks EP#6 - 4 MARCH 2025
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Welcome to Episode #6! Today we talk about cyber cruising, the challenges of early advantage in AI and security; GenZ privacy & secu...
S1E5 - Cyber Sidekicks - Episode #5, 25 FEB 2025
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode #5 Show Notes Hello! Episode #5 continues our chats with cybersecurity practitioners, this week with Adriana Duarte, a SIEM Engineer with NDM ...
S1E4 - Cyber Sidekicks - Episode #4, 18 FEB 2025
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes TODAY’S GUEST We’re very happy to have George Werbacher, Director of Information Security at Live Oak Bank on the show. We had a w...
S1E3 - Cyber Sidekicks - Episode #3, 11 FEB 2025
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes A special episode this week where we are joined by a special guest: Adam Brennick, Director of Security, Risk and Compliance at Cockroac...
S1E2 - Cyber Sidekicks - Episode #2, 4 FEB 2025
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes NEWS Our trailer gained us some attention! Cyber Sidekicks was briefly at #4 in the Apple Podcasts Technology section in… Hungary! For...
S1E1 - Cyber Sidekicks - Episode #1, 28 JAN 2025
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Episode #1 of Cyber Sidekicks - your go-to partner for understanding the cybersecurity market, industry trends, and the real-world chall...
Cyber Sidekicks - Intro & Trailer
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Notes Welcome to Cyber Sidekicks – the weekly podcast that brings fresh perspectives and essential insights to the world of cybersecurity. H...