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When the Device Is Ready, but the User Is Not – VMblog Q&A

VMblog spoke with Jake Mosey, Chief Product Officer at Recast, about a problem most IT teams feel but rarely name. People sign in on a …

interview recast jake mosey

Survey: 76% of Enterprises Suffered Critical App Downtime Despite HA/DR Protection

Enterprise IT environments have grown more distributed than ever, with applications now spanning hybrid infrastructure, multiple cloud providers, and a mix of Windows and Linux …

interview sios dave bermingham

Beyond the Hype: Crogl CEO Monzy Merza on Why Most AI SOC Tools Are Failing Analysts

AI is everywhere in cybersecurity marketing right now, but according to Monzy Merza, Co-founder and CEO of Crogl, most of it doesn’t survive contact with …

interview crogl monzy merza

NeverBlink CEO Itamar Syn-Hershko on Building the First AI Database Administrator

Database administrators used to be the engineers who knew a system’s internals cold—reading query plans, planning capacity, and spotting trouble before it became an outage. …

interview neverblink itamar syn hershko

SecureW2’s Kalyan Arety on Identity Security, Agentic AI Risk, and the Post-Quantum PKI Race

Coming out of Black Hat 2026, one theme dominated hallway conversations more than any other: identity is now the primary battleground in cybersecurity. Attackers have …

interview securew2 kalyan arety

Beyond the Automation Ceiling: Camunda’s Colin Teubner on Why AI Needs Process Re-Engineering, Not Just Bolt-On Agents

The enterprise landscape is shifting from task-level AI automation to full process re-engineering. To discuss that evolution, VMblog spoke with Colin Teubner, Field CTO at …

interview camunda colin teubner

Why Mobile Observability Needs Its Own Playbook: bitdrift CEO Peter Morelli on Building for Agents and Unsampled Telemetry at Scale

Mobile apps live in a fundamentally different world than the datacenters most observability tools were designed for. Unreliable networks, devices that can crash or be …

interview bitdrift peter morelli

HYCU Unveils R-Serve: A New Layer of Continuous Access for iManage Cloud

When a law firm’s primary path to its documents goes dark, even briefly, the cost isn’t measured in IT tickets. It’s measured in billable hours, …

interview hycu sathya sankaran

Black Hat 2026 Q&A: Rubrik’s Dev Rishi on Zero Standing Permissions, Agent Rewind, and Securing the Autonomous AI Workforce

As Black Hat USA 2026 descends on Las Vegas, one theme is impossible to ignore: AI agents have moved from experimental tools to autonomous actors …

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Black Hat USA 2026 Q&A: Token CEO Kevin Surace on Why Biometric Proof, Not Passkeys, Is the Next Frontier for Identity Security

At Black Hat USA 2026, the conversation around identity security has shifted from a technical afterthought to the industry’s central battleground. Attackers today rarely need …

vmblog blackhat usa 2026 qa

Black Hat USA 2026: Arctic Wolf’s Will May on Why Trusting AI to Defend Your Business Is the Industry’s Next Big Test

As Black Hat USA 2026 descends on Las Vegas, the show floor will be crowded with vendors claiming “agentic” credentials, but few are willing to …

vmblog blackhat usa 2026 qa

Straiker Heads to Black Hat 2026 with an Agentic Kill Switch: A Q&A with Amy Heng on Securing the AI Agents Enterprises Already Shipped

As Black Hat USA 2026 prepares to descend on Las Vegas, the security conversation has shifted decisively from “shadow AI” to a thornier problem: the …

vmblog blackhat usa 2026 qa

Black Hat USA 2026 Q&A: Acalvio’s Ram Varadarajan on Why Cyber Deception Is the Key to Preempting AI-Accelerated Attacks

As Black Hat USA 2026 approaches, the conversation across the security industry has shifted from whether attackers are using AI to whether defenders can keep …

vmblog blackhat usa 2026 qa

Black Hat USA 2026 Q&A: Coalfire’s Charles Henderson on Machine-Speed Attacks, Agentic AI Risk, and Closing the Visibility Gap

As Black Hat USA 2026 approaches, the conversation across the security industry has shifted from whether AI will reshape the threat landscape to how fast …

vmblog blackhat usa 2026 qa

Left of Live: Netcraft’s Dal Billings on Why Preemptive Takedowns Are Redefining Digital Risk Protection Ahead of Black Hat USA 2026

As Black Hat USA 2026 approaches, security leaders are once again confronting a familiar problem with a shrinking margin for error: phishing and impersonation attacks …

vmblog blackhat usa 2026 qa

Black Hat USA 2026 Q&A: Brinqa’s Ron Dovich on Why AI Agents Are Only as Good as the Data Foundation Beneath Them

As Black Hat USA 2026 approaches, the conversation across the security industry has shifted from which AI agent an organization has deployed to whether that …

vmblog blackhat usa 2026 qa

Ahead of Black Hat 2026: Backslash Security’s Shahar Man on Why the Endpoint Is the New Frontline for Agentic AI Attacks

As Black Hat USA 2026 approaches, one theme keeps surfacing across the security industry: the explosive growth of agentic AI has quietly created a new …

vmblog blackhat usa 2026 qa

NowSecure CEO Alan Snyder Talks Mobile App AI Risk Ahead of Black Hat USA 2026

As Black Hat USA 2026 approaches, mobile app security is emerging as one of the industry’s most urgent — and most overlooked — battlegrounds. Ahead …

vmblog blackhat usa 2026 qa

AI Proving Ground Consortium: Why Enterprises Must Test AI Security Before Attackers Do, with Lee Rossey of SimSpace

AI is moving into security operations faster than most organizations can prove it belongs there. Enterprises are racing to deploy autonomous AI agents into their …

interview simspace lee rossey

Black Hat USA 2026 Q&A: Anvilogic CEO Karthik Kannan on Agentic SecOps, Live Blueprints Demos, and Why AI Needs to Understand Your Environment

As Black Hat USA 2026 approaches, security leaders are bracing for a threat landscape that looks nothing like it did even 18 months ago — …

vmblog blackhat usa 2026 qa

From Cloud-First to Workload-First: OVHcloud’s Jeffrey Gregor on Rethinking Enterprise Infrastructure Strategy

For years, “cloud first” was treated as an unquestioned mandate – move everything to the public cloud, and agility, cost savings, and simplified operations would …

interview ovhcloud jeffrey gregor

Why Leak Detection is Becoming a Critical Part of AI Data Center Architecture

Air cooling was designed for a world of 8 to 12 kW racks, but that world no longer exists. Today’s AI training racks routinely draw …

interview parameter joe arena