Security Weekly Podcast Network (Audio) Building Trusted Automation as Leaders Struggle with AI Adoption and CISOs Hire - Tim Morris - BSW #437
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Mar 4, 2026 Tim Morris, a financial services strategist at Tanium and former Wells Fargo cybersecurity leader, shares lessons from large-scale deployments. He discusses why trust in automation has lagged and how to build autonomous capabilities slowly. Conversation covers human-in-the-loop approaches, asset intelligence as the foundation, AI’s role in triage and threat hunting, and governance to prevent shadow AI.
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Trusted Automation Needs Accurate Real Time Data
- Trusted automation requires trustworthy data, processes, and guardrails rather than blind self-healing.
- Tim Morris explains historical distrust (IPS blocking era) and argues automation trust grows from validated real‑time data and feedback loops.
Redesign Processes Before Automating Them
- Don't automate legacy processes unchanged; redesign processes for automation to avoid replicate-old-failures.
- Tim urges a leapfrog approach: rework workflows so resilience and HA support safe automation.
Always Keep Humans As The Pilot
- Keep a human in the loop and define validation thresholds and escalation paths before enabling autonomy.
- Use audit/watch modes early, set confidence-score gates, and only promote tasks that meet reliability criteria.