AI Security Brief

Is your organization truly AI native, or did you just bolt AI onto existing infrastructure? Your answer could be an indicator to how much risk you’re carrying without realizing it.



Zach Evans, Chief Technology Officer at Xsolis, has a simple test for telling the difference: strip out the AI and see if your process still works. If it does, you may be exposing your organization to security blind spots and workflows that quietly erode organizational knowledge and skills.



Zach joins Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs to unpack what it actually takes to build an AI-native organization, and why the stakes of getting agentic AI wrong can be unforgiving for every organization, not just those in healthcare.

You’ll learn:

What makes an organization truly AI-native and why it matters

How to design security, redundancy, and access controls into AI workflows from the start

Why you should onboard AI agents like a new hire

How to assess MCP servers as third-party vendors

Why both technical redundancy and having people who can still perform critical work manually can’t be an afterthought

Why stick around:

Zach turns lessons from real hospital downtime into a practical mandate for every security leader: plan for when the agent fails, not only for when it works.

Episode resources:

Zach Evans on LinkedIn

Learn more about Xsolis

From Predictive to Generative to Agentic AI: Understanding Healthcare’s Next Evolution

The Cybercriminal Underground: Mapping the Healthcare Data Economy

Hunt Them All: An AI-Powered Vulnerability Sweep of 19,000 MCP Servers

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.

Attackers aren't just using AI to steal data; they're using it to fight back while you investigate them in real time. And once an adversary is inside, why would they ever want to leave? That's the unsettling reality Tom Kellermann, VP of AI Security and Threat Research at TrendAI, lays out in this episode.

And the numbers prove it. According to a 2026 TrendAI survey of 46 financial-sector CISOs, more than 60% of respondents experienced counter-incident response, where adversaries actively disrupt live investigations. In addition, nearly 90% of these leaders reported more AI-enabled attacks year over year.

Tom joins Johnny Hand and Dustin Childs to explain why the threats that hit the banks first tend to hit everyone else next, and what defenders can do about it.

You'll learn:

Why ungoverned AI should be treated as a command-and-control (C2) channel, and how attackers use it for reconnaissance, lateral movement, and persistence

How agentic attacks work end-to-end, from jailbreaking LLMs through API attacks to dynamically spinning up C2s in minutes

What tactics are used most for bank crime, from the rise of reverse business email compromise (RBEC), deepfake "employee digital twins," and the theft of non-public market information for digital front-running

How a strategic leadership alignment can improve AI defense

Why stick around:

Tom lays out how defenders can turn AI against the attackers, and why a CISO's independent voice has never mattered more.

Episode resources:

Modern Bank Heists 2026 report

Tom Kellermann 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.

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