Enterprise Security Weekly (Audio) AI Governance, new book (Code War) from Allie Mellen, and the weekly news! - Jeremy Snyder, Allie Mellen - ESW #450
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Mar 16, 2026 Allie Mellen, author of Code War, a researcher of nation-state cyber operations. Jeremy Snyder, CEO of FireTail, expert in AI governance and observability. They discuss nation-state hacking, attribution challenges, wipers and geopolitical context. They also cover AI shadow IT, API observability, discovery-first visibility, and model risk categories.
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Firetail Came From Practitioners Facing Shadow AI
- Jeremy introduced Firetail as a company tackling enterprise AI governance and shadow AI.
- He emphasized speaking business language and his background across acquisitions and cloud contexts to build the product perspective.
Security Often Becomes The Visibility Owner
- Security teams often end up owning visibility and must share red-team results on hallucinations even if development resists.
- Jeremy argues shared visibility helps make risk-informed decisions; siloing quality vs security harms outcomes.
Code War Links Cyber To Geopolitics For Lay Readers
- Allie Mellen wrote Code War to connect cyber operations to broader geopolitical history and make it accessible to nontechnical readers.
- She uses historical vignettes (Gulf War to Russia–Ukraine) to show coordination, multi-domain strategy, and information operations.
