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AI Security, AI Cloud Ops & Infrastructure | ClearTech Loop
ClearTech Research / Jo Peterson
67 episodes
AI is changing how enterprises operate, but are security, cloud operations, and infrastructure keeping up?
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Hosted by Jo Peterson, CIO of Clarify360 and Chief Analyst at ClearTech Research, ClearTech Loop goes beyond the hype to examine the technologies, security risks, and operational challenges shaping enterprise IT.
Each episode features direct, insightful conversations with cybersecurity leaders, industry analysts, and technology innovators tackling the questions that matter most to today's businesses.
From AI agents and cybersecurity governance to cloud modernization, AI-driven operations, and infrastructure resilience, ClearTech Loop connects emerging technology to real-world business decisions.
No vendor pitches. No unnecessary jargon. Just informed perspectives, practical insights, and conversations that challenge conventional thinking.
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Your AI Is Making Decisions Your Company Can't Defend with Maribel Lopez
Your company has an AI governance committee. Great. But when an AI agent makes a decision that harms your business, who actually has the authority to shut it down? And here's a bigger question: Would you even know it…
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AI Agents Are Getting Hired Without Background Checks. Here's the Risk| Rasha Horn
Your company wouldn't hire an employee without onboarding, supervision, or defined access. So why are AI agents being given responsibilities without those same safeguards? In this episode of ClearTech Loop, host Jo…
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AI Agents Are Roaming Without IDs. Enterprise Security Isn’t Ready
AI agents are moving across systems, making decisions and, in some cases, creating other agents. But enterprises still do not have consistent standards for identifying them, governing their permissions or tracing what…
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AI Agents Are Already Working for You. Do You Know Who They Are?
AI agents are already operating inside enterprises, accessing systems, making decisions and, in some cases, creating other agents. The problem? Many organizations still cannot answer some very basic questions: What…
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Your AI Agent Just Found Everything You Forgot to Secure
AI agents are gaining credentials, permissions and the ability to act across enterprise systems. But what happens when they discover years of forgotten files, excessive permissions and data that was never secured with…
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AI Agents Don’t Care About Your Governance Committee | Louis Columbus
AI governance may exist on paper. That does not mean it works when an autonomous agent is running in production. Louis Columbus, senior cybersecurity contributor at VentureBeat, joins Jo Peterson to talk about what…
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Your AI Agent Is a Narcissist — And That’s a Security Problem
Your AI agent has one job: accomplish the objective. It doesn’t care about your policies. It doesn’t worry about getting fired. And it may not stop when a human would. Joanna Wiggum calls it a narcissist. That…
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AI Agent Governance: Who Owns the Risk? with Benny Czarny of OPSWAT
Guest Benny Czarny CEO, Founder & Chairman of the Board OPSWAT Host Jo Peterson CIO, Clarify360 Chief Analyst, ClearTech Research AI agents have credentials. They access enterprise data. They make decisions. And…
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Your AI Agents Are Already Running. Can You See Them? | Alvaro Gonzalez
AI agents can hold credentials, access sensitive data, make decisions and even create other identities. But many organizations still cannot answer a basic question: what is actually running in the environment? In this…
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AI Agents Are New. The Security Fundamentals Are Not
The conversation around AI is shifting from what agents can do to how enterprises actually govern and secure them. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with cybersecurity professional Marcus Cylar…
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Can AI Agents Earn Your Trust? Elliott Mattice on AI Governance
What if an AI agent had to earn—and keep—its access based on how it behaved? In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with Elliott Mattice, founder of Exprima, to examine trust as the missing operating…
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What Happens When an AI Agent Acts Without Permission?
What happens when an AI agent takes an action no one authorized? The answer is not, “The model did it.” In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with cybersecurity and technology executive Billy…
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Okta’s AI Blueprint: Moving AI Agents from Shadow to Governed
AI agents are becoming part of the enterprise workforce, but many organizations still do not know where those agents are, what they can access, or what they are allowed to do. In this ClearTech Loop Special Edition…
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Derek Fisher on AI Governance, AI Agents & MCP Risk
AI governance is no longer just a policy conversation. As AI moves into business workflows, sanctioned platforms, employee tools, local models, agents, and third-party services, organizations need to understand where…
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AWS Security Hub: Centralized Identity Risk Management for Agentic AI
In this ClearTech Loop Special Edition from AWS Summit New York, Jo Peterson speaks with Himanshu Verma, Worldwide Leader for Security, Identity, and Governance Specialists at AWS, about how agentic AI is changing the…
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The USB Problem for AI: Phil Stafford on Agents, Governance, and MCP Risk
Short Description Season 3 of ClearTech Loop kicks off with AI security architect Phil Stafford in a practical conversation about AI governance, agent permissions, fractional identity, and why MCP servers may be the…
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AI Security: Gerald Auger on Shadow AI, Non Human Identities, and AI Defense
AI is moving faster than policy, training, and many traditional controls were designed to handle. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with Gerald Auger, Chief Content Creator of Simply Cyber, about…
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AI Security: Maybelyn Plecic on Shadow AI, Non Human Identities, and AI Defense
Your AI policy does not matter much if no one understands how to follow it. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with Maybelyn Plecic, Manager of Training and Adoption at Network to Code, about shadow…
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AI Security: Patricia Titus on Shadow AI, Non-Human Identities, and AI Defense
AI security is not showing up as one clean problem. It is showing up across governance, risk, productivity, identity, API security, and defense. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with seasoned CISO…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Hybrid Integration in the Era of AI: Real Enterprise Use Cases
Enterprises are not trying to modernize in a vacuum. They are running mission-critical workloads on mainframes and ERPs, while also deploying cloud apps, SaaS platforms, and mobile services at scale. Now leaders are…
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Guardrails for Growth: AI in Regulated Industries
How do you enable AI inside one of the most highly regulated industries on the planet — without slowing the business or attracting regulatory heat? In this episode, veteran financial-services CISO Parrish Gunnels…
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Talk Dollars, Not FUD: The CISO’s New Mandate
Episode Description: In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with John Carse, Field CISO at SquareX and former CISO at Dyson and Rakuten, to talk about why modern CISOs must move beyond fear,…
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The Integration Imperative: Why AI Starts (and Succeeds) With webMethods Hybrid Integration | ClearTech Loop x IBM
AI doesn’t fail because of bad models — it fails because of broken connections. Jo Peterson and David Linthicum unpack how IBM’s webMethods Hybrid Integration unites data, applications, and automation for AI that…
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Bumpers, Not Brakes: Pragmatic AI Safety with Dutch Schwartz
AI safety isn’t about slowing innovation — it’s about steering smarter. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with Dutch Schwartz, Vice President of Cloud Services and fractional CISO at SideChannel,…
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The CSA AI Safety Initiative with George Finney
AI is moving fast — and the frameworks to secure it are racing to keep up. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with George Finney, Chief Security Officer for the University of Texas System and…
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