Security Weekly Podcast Network (Audio) AI Governance, new book (Code War) from Allie Mellen, and the weekly news! - Jeremy Snyder, Allie Mellen - ESW #450
Mar 16, 2026
Allie Mellen, Forrester analyst and author of Code War, discusses nation-state cyber operations and geopolitics. Jeremy Snyder, FireTail CEO, tackles AI governance, shadow IT, and API observability. They cover AI visibility, model risks, wipers and wartime cyber patterns, and practical approaches to monitoring and protecting enterprise AI.
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Models Have Distinct Risk Fingerprints
- Different LLMs carry different risk patterns across five categories: malicious content, toxicity, jailbreaks, exploitation, and reliability.
- Jeremy Snyder: no model is perfect, so map model risks and add mitigations like response validation.
Respect Employee Privacy With Selective Prompt Controls
- Respect regional privacy expectations when monitoring prompts; suppress or encrypt prompts per policy.
- Jeremy Snyder: offer options to European customers to mask raw prompts while still detecting PII or leakage.
Cyber Operations Fit Into Multi Domain Warfare
- Allie Mellen frames cyber operations as part of multi-domain warfare, using examples from the Gulf War to Ukraine.
- She contrasts U.S. coordination machine with Russia's lack of coordination and China's organizational reforms.
