Cybersecurity Today Month in Review of March/April 2026

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Jim Love hosts a discussion on the latest cybersecurity trends and incidents from March and April 2026, featuring insights from panelists David Shipley and Laura Payne.

Cybersecurity Today Month-in-Review: RSAC AI Hype, Agentic Risks, Mythos Claims, and Real-World Resilience Jim Love hosts a delayed March month-in-review with panelists David Shipley and Laura Payne, starting with RSAC takeaways: agentic AI everywhere, heightened marketing spectacle, and industry tension as AI becomes the new "cool kid." They discuss the surge of autonomous agents, including OpenClaw-style experimentation leading to stolen tokens and the ease of social-engineering LLMs, plus legal and brand risks of chatbots after the Air Canada precedent. The panel debates Anthropic's source-code leak and "Mythos" messaging, while acknowledging AI tools are finding real zero-days amid massive technical debt and rising exploit speed, raising questions about liability and EU accountability. They highlight a positive case: Stryker Medical's rapid recovery after 80,000 devices were wiped via Intune settings, and note additional incidents targeting healthcare, critical infrastructure PLCs, supply-chain attacks, and longer-term impacts from major source-code thefts. Cybersecurity Today would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete…

People in this episode

Host: Jim Love

Guests: David Shipley, Laura Payne

Topics covered

• RSAC AI Hype
• Agentic Risks
• Mythos Claims
• Real-World Resilience
• Autonomous Agents
• Social Engineering
• Legal Risks of Chatbots
• Source-Code Leak
• Healthcare Cybersecurity
• Supply-Chain Attacks

Keywords

• AI
• Cybersecurity
• RSAC
• Autonomous Agents
• Healthcare
• Critical Infrastructure

Sponsors

Meter

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Intune, OpenClaw

Books & works: Mythos

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