AI Security Brief

While AI might seem abstract, something that lives in "the cloud" is concrete. The AI applications we use every day run on GPUs in physical buildings, and Mark Houpt secures them. As Chief Information Security Officer at DataBank, he's watched those data centers go from anonymous warehouses to national security targets almost overnight.

Mark joins hosts Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs to make the case that the AI era is, at its core, a physical security problem, and why the security fundamentals you already know still work, even when applied to threats that didn't exist two years ago.

You'll learn:

How GPU scarcity and government export controls turned ordinary data centers into national security targets

How the data center threat map has evolved - from employee badge slip-ups to nation-states, “laptop farm” fraud, and foreign-backed activism

Why compartmentalization is back at the center of the cybersecurity playbook, including the individual disk and the cage.

Why stick around:

Mark hands you a working checklist for securing AI at the physical layer: how it’s being targeted, who's coming for it, and what to do about it.

Episode resources:

The AI Security Playbook (for Tech, Media & Communications)

DataBank website

Mark Houpt on LinkedIn

Dustin Childs on LinkedIn

Johnny Hand on LinkedIn

TrendAI on LinkedIn

About AI Security Brief

AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait.

About TrendAI™

TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.

Your team spent a decade maturing privileged access management. Then AI agents arrived and they don’t log in like humans. Now your biggest insider threat is an AI agent that lacks the access it needs, and then it goes to get it.

In this episode Sundari Parekh, VP of AI Security and Cyber Risk Advisory for TrendAI™, addresses a hard truth: PAM was never fully solved, and non-human identity and agentic AI are amplifying the gap. Her fix: stop building a separate AI team, upend your identity thinking, and shift from gatekeeping AI adoption to safely enabling it.

You'll learn:

Why 'least privilege' breaks down with agentic AI

Why non-human identity covers more than service accounts, and where the real exposure lies

How your existing PAM work is the agentic-identity head start most teams overlook

Why stick around:

Your already-stretched security team now supports an AI-native mandate. Sundari lays out how to govern the explosion of non-human identities before shadow AI does it for you.

Episode resources:

Sundari Parekh on LinkedIn

⁠Johnny Hand on LinkedIn

TrendAI on LinkedIn

About AI Security Brief

AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can't wait.

About TrendAI™

TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.

If you think the recent wave of AI-discovered vulnerabilities is a problem, Rob Bair of Anthropic has a reframe for you. Discovery is the easy part. Closing the remediation gap is now the defining security challenge.

Drawing on his experience in the Navy, in national security, and now frontier AI, Rob shares with host Johnny Hand what frontier models like Mythos actually mean for security leaders, and how defenders can keep pace when nation-state actors are already running autonomous attacks. 

You’ll learn:


What to do now that the discovery-to-exploitation window has collapsed and what that means for your patch cadence


Why the answer to addressing AI-discovered vulnerabilities isn’t a single tool; it’s getting back to cybersecurity basics 


What Anthropic’s GTG-1002 disclosure reveals about fully autonomous, AI-driven cyber kill chains used by nation-state actors

Why stick around: 

Learn how you can embrace frontier AI without losing sight of the operational fundamentals that ultimately determine organizational resilience.

Episode resources:


Anthropic Claude Mythos


Expanding Project Glasswing


The AI Threat Landscape: Why Your Security Playbook Needs a Rewrite


Mythos Raises the Stakes


Rob Bair on LinkedIn


Dustin Childs on LinkedIn


Johnny Hand on LinkedIn


TrendAI on LinkedIn

About AI Security Brief

AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can’t wait.

About TrendAI™

TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk. AI Fearlessly. trendaisecurity.com

If you think the recent wave of AI-discovered vulnerabilities is a problem, Rob Bair of Anthropic has a reframe for you. Discovery is the easy part. Closing the remediation gap is now the defining security challenge.

Drawing on his experience in the Navy, in national security, and now frontier AI, Rob shares with host Johnny Hand what frontier models like Mythos actually mean for security leaders, and how defenders can keep pace when nation-state actors are already running autonomous attacks. 

You’ll learn:


What to do now that the discovery-to-exploitation window has collapsed and what that means for your patch cadence


Why the answer to addressing AI-discovered vulnerabilities isn’t a single tool; it’s getting back to cybersecurity basics 


What Anthropic’s GTG-1002 disclosure reveals about fully autonomous, AI-driven cyber kill chains used by nation-state actors

Why stick around: 

Learn how you can embrace frontier AI without losing sight of the operational fundamentals that ultimately determine organizational resilience.

Episode resources:


Anthropic Claude Mythos


Expanding Project Glasswing


The AI Threat Landscape: Why Your Security Playbook Needs a Rewrite


Mythos Raises the Stakes


Rob Bair on LinkedIn


Dustin Childs on LinkedIn


Johnny Hand on LinkedIn


TrendAI on LinkedIn

About AI Security Brief

AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can’t wait.

About TrendAI™

TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk. AI Fearlessly. trendaisecurity.com

At Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, a security researcher used agentic AI to help her win. The AI surfaced real, verified bugs, then wrongly called her winning bug “not unexploitable in practice.” Spoiler - it was.That uneven record is exactly what security leaders need to understand about the promise and limits of agentic AI.

In this episode, host Dustin Childs sits down with Valentina Palmiotti – better known as Chompie – who took home $70,000 for zero-days in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Drawing from firsthand experience, Chompie shares agentic AI’s proven value for defenders and why human expertise remains essential.

What we cover:


What agentic AI can genuinely do in skilled hands today, and where it still fails


Why your real exposure isn't new bugs, it's the widening gap before known ones get patched


How agentic AI is best viewed as a tool that frees skilled teams for higher-value work

Why stick around:

This is a real-world view of agentic AI beyond the hype: what security work AI can accelerate and the judgement calls it can’t make without human input.

Episode resources:


Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 — Day One results (TrendAI Zero Day Initiative)


Chompie on X


Dustin Childs on LinkedIn


Johnny Hand on LinkedIn


TrendAI on LinkedIn

About AI Security Brief

AI Security Brief is where security and technology leaders come to get ahead. Join us for real conversations on the AI trends, threats, and decisions that can’t wait.

About TrendAI™

TrendAI™ empowers organizations to lead the future of AI with proactive security designed to inspire innovation and eliminate risk. TrendAI™. AI Fearlessly.