David Bombal

David Bombal

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Mar 28, 2026 • 20min

#567: Why Power Is Becoming a Major Problem for AI in 2026

Nathan Jokel, Head of Corporate Strategy at Cisco who leads long-term AI and security partnerships, discusses the future of AI data centers. He covers Cisco and NVIDIA's work to remove networking bottlenecks with 1.6T ports and G300 silicon. Topics include Secure AI infrastructure, observability and security (Splunk, eBPF, HyperShield), power constraints for data centers, and preparations for post-quantum and quantum networking.
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Mar 25, 2026 • 26min

#566: Stop buying AI security tools until you watch this

Danny Jenkins, a cybersecurity practitioner at ThreatLocker focused on application control and zero trust, cuts through AI hype. He warns against treating AI as a cure and talks about agentic AI risks, treating agents like users, mixing AI with rule-based controls, and pragmatic steps like default-deny app control, closing open ports, and restricting cloud app access.
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Mar 25, 2026 • 30min

#565: Stop the AI Hype: What Enterprise Teams Are Really Building

Carlos Pereira, Cisco Fellow and Chief Architect for Customer Experience, explains why enterprise value comes from agentic AI that executes B2B workflows, not consumer chatbots. He walks through how teams narrow hundreds of ideas to a few ROI-backed use cases. Discussion covers evaluations, input guards, latency and data sovereignty, and how embedding AI into workflows drives real adoption.
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Mar 23, 2026 • 38min

#564: Hackers can bypass Your MFA In 2026 (And How To Stop It)

Rob Allen, Senior ThreatLocker rep and cybersecurity expert, explains why SMS MFA and reused passwords are risky. He outlines how attackers use reverse-proxy cookie theft and SIM swapping to bypass protections. The conversation covers authenticator apps, hardware keys, zero trust cloud access, proxying Office 365 traffic, and locking down internal networks with deny-by-default approaches.
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Mar 23, 2026 • 33min

#563: Securing LLMs and fighting Prompt Injection with Algorithmic Red Teaming

Rick Miles, VP of Product at Cisco and former military cybersecurity operator, explains the shift from static firewalls to distributed "firewalling." He highlights the 6100 series hardware leap, eBPF-powered visibility and virtual patching, and the risks around prompt injection and poisoned models. He outlines algorithmic red teaming and the rise of agentic security as a force multiplier for engineers.
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Mar 23, 2026 • 10min

#562: Warning and demo: It's possible to Prompt Engineer Malware

Kieran Human, a security practitioner with ThreatLocker, demonstrates prompt-engineered malware techniques and live demos. He shows how LLM guardrails can be bypassed to generate PowerShell ransomware and data-stealing scripts. The conversation covers evading Defender, hiding malicious intent with comments, and testing risks for defenders.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 30min

#561: Why 1 small network FAIL breaks your massive 2026 AI job

Hendrik Blokhuis, Cisco CTO for EMEA partners, and Gary Middleton, NTT Data networking lead in Europe, talk infrastructure pressures from AI. They unpack NeoClouds vs hyperscalers. They highlight data sovereignty, extreme power and cooling needs, single-point network failure risks, edge inferencing for robotics, and the urgent skills needed for 2026 networks.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 58min

#560: The one BIG mistake you are making with DNS security today

Cricket Liu, longtime DNS expert and author of DNS and BIND, explains why DNS remains the internet’s weakest link. He contrasts encrypted DNS with protective DNS, outlines RPZ defenses, clarifies DNSSEC’s role as validation not encryption, and warns how encrypted DNS can be abused for exfiltration. He also highlights NIST SP 800-81 updates and practical hardening steps for real-world networks.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 18min

#559: How Splunk unlocks the Agentic AI transition in 2026

They dig into how Splunk and Cisco Data Fabric prepare telemetry and time-series models for agentic AI in 2026. They cover Machine GPT, open-source time-series models on Hugging Face, and turnkey ingestion for enterprise data. They explore agentic security tools for SOC triage, malware mitigation, observability agents, and trust measures like monitoring and model drift.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 25min

#558: Top 4 Web hacking demos for aspiring hackers (with labs and CTF)

Justin Gardner, a full-time bug bounty hunter and podcaster, walks through hands-on web-hacking demos and practical training. He demonstrates IDOR, broken client-side access controls, reflected XSS, and CSRF using only the browser. Short guidance on a 200-hour learning roadmap, labs to practice, and what it takes to start earning in bug bounty work.

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