Cybersecurity Perspectives is a show for IT and cybersecurity professionals who want real talk, not talking points.
Every episode, a guest draws one of three cards, each one holding a real statistic pulled from an industry report or news outlet. Whatever card they pick becomes the topic. No pre-set questions, no rehearsed answers. Just an honest conversation about what that number actually means for their company, their team, and the industry at large, and what to do about it.
Hosted by Paul Marco and Owahn Bazydlo, co-founders of TALAS Security, the show brings together practitioners, leaders, and builders from across IT and cybersecurity to talk shop, share hard-won lessons, and build a stronger community for the people doing this work every day.
Stats. Insights. Real talk.
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S1:E12 - December 2025 saw the discovery of Void Link, a malware framework written in six days by an AI agent, described as a point of no return for automated threat development.
Connect With Us The pace of change in cybersecurity has never been faster, and the forcing function is the same technology that is enabling the next generation of attackers. Evan Obranovic joins Owahn Bazydlo and Paul Marco for a wide-ranging, education-grounded conversation about AI-enabled threats, the collapse of the barrier to entry for cybercrime, insider risk in the student era, and the growing fatigue around AI being bolted onto every tool in the stack. The episode works through two co...
27 Oct 2026
S1:E11 - Ransomware appeared in 48% of all breaches in 2025, up from 44% the previous year, but the median ransom payment declined to $139,875 in 2025, down from $150,000
Ransomware remains the dominant breach pattern in cybersecurity, but the trajectory beneath that headline is more encouraging than most practitioners realize. Bipin Prakash joins Paul Marco for a wide-ranging, education-grounded conversation about ransomware economics, the shifting threat surface from email to browser, the sophistication of modern social engineering, and why the industry’s default pessimism may be masking real defensive progress. The episode works through two complementary fi...
20 Oct 2026
S1:E10 - in 3.2% of DLP policy violations, research and technical documentation was uploaded to unauthorized AI systems
Not every DLP alert tells the full story, and the ones that do are usually the tip of a much larger iceberg. Paul Zimmerman joins Owahn Bazydlo and Paul Marco for a wide-ranging, education-grounded conversation about AI governance, intellectual property risk, user behavior, and why the next phase of cybersecurity will be shaped as much by optimism and design as by fear. The episode centers on a sharp finding from the 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report: in 3.2% of DLP policy violat...
13 Oct 2026
S1:E9 - 27 seconds, The fastest e-crime breakout time on record in the 2026 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report.
Twenty-seven seconds. That is the fastest e-crime breakout time on record in the 2026 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report, and it reframes almost every assumption we make about defensive response. Albert Galeas joins Owahn Bazydlo and Paul Marco for a candid, education-grounded conversation about cyber hygiene, governance, the limits of security tooling, and why the fundamentals still decide who wins when the attack clock is measured in seconds. The episode centers on the CrowdStrike finding and...
7 Oct 2026
S1:E8 - 64% of organizations now have a process to assess the security of AI tools before deployment, nearly double the 37% reported in 2025
There is finally a bright spot in the AI governance conversation, and it comes from an unexpected place: the companies themselves. Michael Brady joins Paul Marco for a candid, financial-services-grounded conversation about AI governance, shadow AI, third-party risk, and why defense remains one of the hardest jobs in cybersecurity. The episode centers on an encouraging finding from the 2026 World Economic Forum Global Cybersecurity Outlook: 64% of organizations now have a process to assess the...
28 Sept 2026
S1:E7 - 67% of users access AI services via non-corporate accounts on corporate devices
Shadow IT never went away, it just learned to speak in prompts. Lou Mazzucchelli joins Owahn Bazydlo and Paul Marco for a wide-ranging, historically grounded conversation about AI governance, corporate culture, data as an asset, and why the newest problems in cybersecurity keep rhyming with the oldest. The episode centers on a striking finding from the 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report: 67% of users access AI services via non-corporate accounts on corporate devices, and 45% of em...
17 Sept 2026
S1:E6 - Less than 2.5% of AI-assisted malware observations involve rare techniques
AI is accelerating attacks faster than most defenders can adapt, but the surprise is how little of that acceleration is actually new. Dustin Brown joins Owahn Bazydlo and Paul Marco for a wide-ranging conversation about agentic AI, third-party risk, critical infrastructure, and why the fundamentals still decide who wins. The episode opens with a striking finding from the 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report: less than 2.5% of AI-assisted malware observations involve rare techniques ...
10 Sept 2026
S1:E5 - In 2025 AI assisted attacks used an average of 15 MITRE techniques, a year later its averaging 50
In this episode of Cybersecurity Perspectives, Paul Marco and Owahn Bazydlo unpack a striking data point from the 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report: the median threat actor researched or used AI assistance across 15 different MITRE ATT&CK techniques in 2025, with some actors leveraging as many as 40 to 50. What follows is a candid discussion of what happens when the very frameworks defenders rely on become the roadmaps adversaries feed to unrestricted large language models. T...
1 Sept 2026
S1:E4 - 42% increase in zero-day vulnerabilities & Phishing leading AI Assisted Initial Access
Security is moving faster than the people trying to stop it - and attackers are already using AI to widen the gap. Tom Hafemann joins Owahn Bazydlo and Paul Marco for a sharp, unfiltered conversation about why vulnerability exploitation, patching, third-party risk, and AI-powered attacks are becoming harder to ignore. The episode starts with a sobering stat from the 2026 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report: a 42% increase in zero-day vulnerabilities exploited before public disclosure. But the re...
20 Aug 2026
S1:E3 - 130 Vulnerabilities Disclosed A Day in 2025 & 29 Minute Average Breakout Time in 2026
AI watermarking, 130 new vulnerabilities a day, and a breakout time that dropped to 29 minutes, this episode shows exactly why cybersecurity now feels like a race you cannot afford to lose. Paul Marco breaks down the numbers that sound terrifying at first, then turns them into a practical framework for understanding what actually matters in your environment. Using a new card-based format inspired by Wildcard, Paul and Owahn make the conversation intentionally unscripted and high-stakes, then ...
8 Aug 2026
S1:E2 - Bonus - Departing Blackhat, Thoughts from the Airport
Black Hat’s biggest lesson this year is not about AI, it’s about control. Paul and Owahn unpack fragmented security stacks, why “agentic AI” is just the latest rebrand of old identity problems, and what defenders actually need to do to reduce risk without drowning in hype. From the airport after five intense days in Las Vegas, they break down the real conversations happening on the vendor floor, the SMB-sized gaps that enterprise tools keep ignoring, and the one startup that genuinely stood o...
6 Aug 2026
S1:E1 - Promo - On the Walk to the Blackhat Conference
Launching our first podcast at Blackhat, where cybersecurity pros don’t just talk tech, they share perspectives, challenge ideas, and build community. Episode one drops soon. https://www.talas.io/podcast
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