Turning 30,000 Findings Into 50 That Matter with Dan Pagel and Brad Hibbert

Mythos just found 30,000 new vulnerabilities, and now every security team is asking the same question: what actually matters?

In this episode, Ron Eddings sits down with Dan Pagel, CEO at Brinqa, and Brad Hibbert COO & CSO at Brinqa, to break down the Anthropic Mythos moment that rattled the security industry. From the panic of millions of new findings dropping overnight to the strategy of narrowing them down to the 50 that actually matter in YOUR environment, this episode is a masterclass in exposure management at machine speed.

Dan and Brad share how Brinqa helps organizations make sense of massive volumes of findings, correlating data across 260+ connectors, enriching vulnerability context, and delivering clear, explainable actions to IT operations teams.

They also tackle the bigger question: how do you build enough trust in AI to let it take autonomous action on your behalf? The answer starts with better data, better explainability, and knowing when to keep humans in (or on) the loop.

Impactful Moments

00:00 - Introduction

02:00 - What just happened? Breaking down the Anthropic Mythos moment

04:10 - Why most new findings don’t apply to your environment

07:12 - What Mythos means to the broader market

09:09 - Why AI-driven discovery isn’t slowing down

11:00 - The gap between security and IT ops: how explainability closes it

13:38 - How fast you should go through findings 

15:53 - Why MTTR is the wrong metric and what businesses actually care about

18:03 - Why real-time visibility is replacing scheduled scanning

19:50 - Human IN the loop vs. human ON the loop

22:14 - What happens when AI hallucinates? 

27:20 - Why we’re over and under-estimating the impact of AI

29:54 - The immediate win Brinqa achieves for its customers

31:50 - What CISOs are really asking now: "What does good look like?"

Links

Connect with our guest, Dan Pagel, on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpagel/

Connect with our guest, Brad Hibbert, on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradhibbert/

Learn more about Brinqa: https://www.brinqa.com/

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