40. AI Era Cloud Breaches with Matthew Toussain

40. AI Era Cloud Breaches with Matthew Toussain

From Cloud Currents by Merchants Media

August 15, 2025 · 54 min

About this episode

Matthew Toussain discusses the challenges of cloud security in the AI era, highlighting common breaches and emerging threats.

Join host Matt Pacheco as he sits down with Matthew Toussain, Founder and CEO of Open Security and former US Air Force cyber warfare specialist from the military's first specialized cybersecurity class. In this episode, Matthew reveals the shocking reality of cloud security in the AI era—from unsecured S3 buckets that still plague enterprises to the terrifying new world of AI-generated vulnerabilities being created faster than defenders can handle. Discover why the most common cloud breaches still involve basic authentication failures, how Microsoft 365 Copilot is accidentally exposing corporate secrets, and why voice-based AI attacks are about to revolutionize social engineering. Matthew shares exclusive insights from real incident response cases, including a ransomware attack that went from vulnerability disclosure to complete compromise in just two weeks.

People in this episode

Host: Matt Pacheco

Guest: Matthew Toussain

Topics covered

  • cloud security
  • AI vulnerabilities
  • cybersecurity
  • incident response
  • social engineering

Keywords

  • cloud breaches
  • AI security
  • cyber warfare
  • authentication failures
  • voice-based AI attacks

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Open Security, Microsoft 365 Copilot

Places: US

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