AI Security Brief unpacks how AI is reshaping cybersecurity, from emerging attack techniques to zero-day research and real-world adversary activity. Powered by TrendAI threat intel and featuring conversations with international law enforcement, AI policy leaders, and security leaders, each episode delivers one insight worth bringing back to your team. Hosted by AI security practitioners Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs.
Chief Marketing Officer Tyler Shields discusses building trust in automated cybersecurity remediation, offering practical steps for organizations to leverage AI without sacrificing human oversight.
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Can you trust AI with critical infrastructure?
Host Dustin Childs interviews Jason Cradit, CTO and CISO at Everline, about establishing practical AI governance and guardrails for critical infrastructure security.
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is a closed or an open AI model more trustworthy?
Morgan Adamski, PwC's Cyber, Data & Technology Risk leader, interviews with host Dustin Childs about choosing between closed and open AI models for enhanced security and agility.
27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
What does hospital downtime teach us about building AI-native organizations?
Chief Technology Officer Zach Evans interviews with hosts Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs, explaining how hospital downtime reveals risks in non-AI-native organizations and how to build truly AI-native structures.
13 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
What do AI-driven ‘bank heist’ attacks mean for defenders?
TrendAI's Tom Kellermann explains to Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs how AI-driven bank heist attacks challenge defenders and what strategies can improve AI security.
30 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is AI security actually a physical problem?
Chief Information Security Officer Mark Houpt discusses with hosts Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs how AI security is fundamentally a physical problem, offering insights into securing data centers against evolving threats.
16 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Who governs your AI agents?
Sundari Parekh, VP of AI Security and Cyber Risk Advisory for TrendAI™, interviews Johnny Hand on governing AI agents and rethinking identity management for secure AI adoption.
2 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is the next frontier model your biggest threat or your best defender?
Host Johnny Hand interviews Rob Bair of Anthropic about how frontier AI models present both significant threats and opportunities for cybersecurity leaders.
18 Jun 2026
Can Agentic AI Really Find Zero-Days? Ask the Hacker Who Won Pwn2Own Berlin 2026
At Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, a security researcher used agentic AI to help her win. The AI surfaced real, verified bugs, then wrongly called her winning bug “not unexploitable in practice.” Spoiler - it was.That uneven record is exactly what security leaders need to understand about the promise and limits of agentic AI.
In this episode, host Dustin Childs sits down with Valentina Palmiotti – better known as Chompie – who took home $70,000 for zero-days in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Drawing from firsthand experience, Chompie shares agentic AI’s proven value for defenders and why human expertise remains essential.
What we cover:
What agentic AI can genuinely do in skilled hands today, and where it still fails
Why your real exposure isn't new bugs, it's the widening gap before known ones get patched
How agentic AI is best viewed as a tool that frees skilled teams for higher-value work
Why stick around:
This is a real-world view of agentic AI beyond the hype: what security work AI can accelerate and the judgement calls it can’t make without human input.
Episode resources:
Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 — Day One results (TrendAI Zero Day Initiative)
Chompie on X
Dustin Childs on LinkedIn
Johnny Hand on LinkedIn
TrendAI on LinkedIn
About AI Security Brief
AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can’t wait.
About TrendAI™
TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.
4 Jun 2026
Is Your Enterprise AI Strategy Delivering ROI Yet?
Your enterprise AI strategy isn’t as far along as you think. The reality for most organizations today is that AI is disrupting existing processes more than it’s delivering outcomes… so far. And according to Dr. Grace Trinidad, Research Director at IDC, that’s how it should be.
In this episode, host Johnny Hand sits down with Dr. Grace to discuss how AI adoption follows the same pattern as almost every major digital transformation, and why this disruption phase we’re in is messy, yet critically important.
What we cover:
How history demonstrates that automation across industries created disruption well before delivering value
Why your AI adoption strategy is much more than simple tool deployment
What business and technology leaders need to consider as they integrate AI into operational workflows
How token consumption and AI FinOps are the emerging security and cost risk
How AI ontologies will be the next real business differentiator
Why stick around:
If you’ve been wondering if your organization’s AI adoption strategy is ahead of the curve, Dr. Grace will give you a much clearer picture of where you really stand.
Episode resources:
Dr. Grace Trinidad on LinkedIn
Securing the AI Enterprise: 5 Key Steps for Business Leaders
Closing the Governance Gap in Agentic AI
Johnny Hand on LinkedIn
TrendAI on LinkedIn
About AI Security Brief
AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait.
About TrendAI™
TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.
21 May 2026
Who’s responsible when AI starts making mistakes?
With over two decades of experience spanning global CIO and CISO roles Sachin Jain has a perspective on accountability that goes well beyond the CISO's desk. In this episode, Sachin shares why AI governance is a shared responsibility across the organization, and offers practical advice on one of the biggest challenges security leaders face: learning to speak the board's language.
What we cover:
Who is actually accountable when AI agents make decisions that go wrong
How to build an AI governance framework that holds up under pressure
Breaking down silos across legal, engineering, and the board
Why shadow AI is already happening in your organization, whether you know it or not
How to speak the board's language and translate technical risk into budget approval
Why stick around: If you've ever struggled to translate technical risk into budget approval, this conversation is going to resonate.
Episode resources:
Sachin Jain on LinkedIn
Dustin Childs on LinkedIn
Johnny Hand on LinkedIn
TrendAI on LinkedIn
About AI Security Brief
AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait.
About TrendAI™
TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.
7 May 2026
How do we secure applications when anyone can code?
Ashish Rajan doesn’t sugarcoat what it means to be a security leader in the AI era. This is a moment where innovation is outpacing control. Where AI is being embedded into everything, often faster than organizations can understand, govern, or secure it.
Ashish is a CISO, trusted advisor, and host of both the Cloud Security Podcast and AI Security Podcast. He is also the author of the upcoming book AI Security Engineering - which he describes as a framework for building and monitoring secure AI systems.
In this episode, Ashish addresses how security leaders can get ahead of the accelerated use of AI in their organization.
What we cover:
What happens to your risk posture when non-technical employees start committing code
Why the built-in guardrails from your LLM or cloud provider aren't enough, and why assuming they are is your biggest blind spot
What most incident response playbooks are completely missing when it comes to AI
Practical advice for both security leaders and practitioners on how to get ahead of this
Why stick around: If your organization is moving fast on AI adoption, Ashish will tell you plainly what's already exposed, and what to do about it.
Episode resources:
Pre-order AI Security Engineering
Ashish Rajan linktr.ee
Cloud Security Podcast
AI Security Podcast
Ashish Rajan on LinkedIn
Dustin Childs on LinkedIn
Johnny Hand on LinkedIn
TrendAI on LinkedIn
About AI Security Brief
AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait.
About TrendAI™
TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.
23 Apr 2026
How does AI change the economics of cybercrime?
Robert (Bob) McArdle has spent two decades tracking cybercriminals - from ransomware groups to nation-state actors to financially motivated crime organizations. As a result, he has a front-row seat on how agentic AI is reshaping the threat landscape right now.
In conversation with hosts Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs, Bob shares why agentic AI is a bigger game changer for cybercriminals than generative AI.
What you’ll learn:
How the criminal service economy is being rebuilt around AI, and why it was already perfectly structured for it
The three rules of cybercrime adoption and how to use them to anticipate what's coming
What defenders can actually do when the volume of attacks multiplies
Why stick around:
Security teams take note: AI isn't only making phishing emails better. The entire criminal ecosystem has a new AI-driven engine.
Episode resources:
VibeCrime Report
The Next Phase of Cybercrime
news.aatf.ai
Robert McArdle on LinkedIn
Dustin Childs on LinkedIn
Johnny Hand on LinkedIn
TrendAI on LinkedIn
About AI Security Brief
AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait.
About TrendAI™
TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.
16 Apr 2026
Introducing AI Security Brief, by TrendAI.
AI Security Brief is a new biweekly podcast, hosted by Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs, unpacking emerging AI threats, vulnerability research, and the strategic decisions and investments security leaders are making right now. Featuring proprietary intelligence from TrendAI threat research and conversations with international law enforcement, policy leaders, influencers and security executives building strategies for the next evolution in attack surface.
AI Security Brief Episode 1 premieres on April 23rd, 2026.
Listen and subscribe to the podcast wherever you get your favorite shows.
Inside a recent episode
Is trust holding back automated remediation?
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And the problem is that we're just not fixing things fast enough. It used to be okay when you had a zero day here and there and a few CVEs a week or a month that you had to take care of. But when you have orders of magnitude of growth, of speed, of discovery of issues, You can't keep up with it without automation, right? And so we have to apply AI on the remediation side of that equation if we want to stand a chance to win whatsoever. Now, there's a lot of nuance in how we do that, where we can apply it first, what the flow might look like as far as types of issues we apply it to first, human in the loop, and all sorts of things like that. […]
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