

Risky Business
Risky Business Media
Risky Business is a weekly information security podcast featuring news and in-depth interviews with industry luminaries. Launched in February 2007, Risky Business is a must-listen digest for information security pros. With a running time of approximately 50-60 minutes, Risky Business is pacy; a security podcast without the waffle.
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Mar 27, 2026 • 30min
Soap Box: Red teaming AI systems with SpecterOps
Russel Van Tuyl, VP of Services at SpecterOps and red teaming expert behind BloodHound, discusses AI red teaming and testing whole systems. He covers chatbots, RAG integrations, prompt injection risks, non-determinism and logging, explosion of machine identities, AI agents breaking least privilege, and using attack-path tooling across hybrid stacks.

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Mar 25, 2026 • 1h 4min
Risky Business #830 -- LiteLLM and security scanner supply chains compromised
Braden Rogers, Chief Customer Officer at Island, helps companies govern employee use of AI while preventing data leaks. He discusses browser-based DLP, tenancy challenges with AI providers, and routing the right model to the right user. Short, sharp takes on preventing sensitive data from being pasted into chatbots and balancing executive access with data safety.

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Mar 18, 2026 • 1h 4min
Risky Business #829 -- Sneaky lobsters: Why AI is the new insider threat
A fast-paced dive into recent cyber attacks, from an Intune-based wiper hitting medical device firm systems to supply-chain tricks using invisible Unicode payloads. They unpack a vendor accidentally leaking a wildcard SSL key and debate AI agents acting like insider threats. Other highlights include Instagram dropping E2EE DMs, Moscow’s mobile internet controls, and wild hardware hacks on consoles and forensic tools.

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Mar 12, 2026 • 27min
Risky Biz Soap Box: It took a decade, but allowlisting is cool again
Daniel Schell, Airlock Digital co-founder and CTO, builds deep endpoint controls. David Cottingham, co-founder and chief product officer, drives deny-by-default execution control. They discuss AI's role in allowlisting and why deterministic, customer-scoped automation beats LLMs for recommendations. They cover autotrust, assembly reflection, hardening UIs, and making allowlisting operationally practical.

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Mar 11, 2026 • 1h 2min
Risky Business #828 -- The Coruna exploits are truly exquisite
Toni de la Fuente, founder and CEO of Prowler, a cloud security scanner creator. He discusses Prowler’s enterprise features while keeping it open source. Conversation touches on the Karuna iOS exploit toolkit and its clever JS-to-payload chaining. They also cover exploit signing bypasses and the role of unusual tool choices and LLMs in modern malware development.

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Mar 4, 2026 • 1h 1min
Risky Business #827 -- Iranian cyber threat actors are down but not out
Sydney Maroney, Head of threat hunting at Nebulock and creator of an open-source Agentic Threat Hunting Framework, discusses AI-driven threat hunting and her framework. She covers agent design, session memory and documentation. She explains how AI speeds hunts while stressing verification and shows where to find the framework on GitHub.

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Feb 25, 2026 • 1h 6min
Risky Business #826 -- A week of AI mishaps and skulduggery
Brian Dye, CEO of Corelight, explains network detection and AI for defenders. James Wilson, security analyst, provides technical context on AI risks. Adam Boileau, security practitioner, gives hands-on analysis of incidents and tooling. They cover AI-augmented mass Fortinet compromises, model distillation accusations, AI agents causing outages and mailbox deletions, exploit-selling prosecutions, and legacy-product breaches.

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Feb 19, 2026 • 38min
Risky Biz Soap Box: The lethal trifecta of AI risks
Josh Devon, co-founder of Sondera and cybersecurity builder, explains the “lethal trifecta” of AI risks. He talks about private data exposure, untrusted content, and agents communicating externally. Short, punchy takes on behavioral controls, policy-as-code harnesses, adversarial testing, and deploying protections across enterprise environments.

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Feb 18, 2026 • 1h 3min
Risky Business #825 -- Palo Alto Networks blames it on the boogie
Adam Poynton, CEO of Knock Knock, a maker of SSO-firewall integration and legacy OS agents. He discusses building agents for Solaris/SPARC and HPUX, a new Windows agent, and self-defending hosts. The conversation also covers orchestration across cloud and SaaS allow-lists, vendor trust and supply-chain tradeoffs, and why old-school platforms still matter.

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Feb 11, 2026 • 56min
Risky Business #824 -- Microsoft's Secure Future is looking a bit wobbly
Brandon Dixon, founder and CEO of Ent.AI and serial security entrepreneur, joins to discuss AI’s role in protecting endpoints. He digs into endpoint-centric world models and embeddings. Short takes cover contextual detection, AI-generated explanations, and neurosymbolic autonomous defenses. The conversation sketches how language-based understanding and deterministic safeguards could reshape security.


