About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of securing AI and the evolving role of humans in a machine-speed world.

All links and images can be found on CISO Series We're evolving fast to secure AI. But are we evolving fast enough to secure WITH AI? Check out this post by Rinki Sethi, CSO, Upwind Security, for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week's episode co-hosted by me, David Spark , the producer of CISO Series , and Howard Holton , former CEO, GigaOm. Joining is Adam Glick , CSO, PSG Equity . In this episode: Human-in-the-loop math Should machines decide at all From assistant to autonomous Redefining the security role A huge thanks to our sponsor, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud unifies code, cloud, and SOC on a single data, risk, and control plane — giving teams the context, workflows, and agentic intelligence to turn risk into resolution. Native AI agents investigate and act within enterprise guardrails, delivering real-time protection from workload to network edge. Cloud security that outpaces machine-speed threats. Visit paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/cloud .

People in this episode

Host: David Spark

Guests: Howard Holton, Adam Glick

Topics covered

• AI security
• human-in-the-loop
• autonomous systems
• security roles
• machine-speed threats

Keywords

• AI security
• human-in-the-loop
• autonomous systems
• security roles
• machine-speed threats
• Cortex Cloud
• Palo Alto Networks

Sponsors

Palo Alto Networks

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Upwind Security, CISO Series, GigaOm

Products: Cortex Cloud

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