About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of AI in cybersecurity, recent data exposures, and the disparity between government security tools and business vulnerabilities.

The government just put an AI company inside the NSA. Not to defend networks. To help find ways into them. At the same time, more than 3 million Texans had their driver's license and passport data exposed through a third-party vendor, and attackers harvested credentials from 75,000 Fortinet firewalls around the world, then organized the victims by how much money they were likely worth. Three stories. One uncomfortable reality: *The most powerful security tools are being locked up while your biggest risks are still the basics.* On this episode of Security Squawk, Bryan Hornung, Randy Bryan, and Reginald Andre break down what business owners, executives, IT leaders, and MSPs need to understand about AI, vendor risk, and the growing gap between the tools governments get and the threats businesses still face every day. Story 1: Anthropic Inside the NSA The Financial Times reported that Anthropic, the company behind Claude, embedded engineers inside the NSA to deploy a frontier AI model called Mythos. The same company that was previously flagged as a supply chain risk is now helping deploy one of the most advanced cyber-focused AI systems in government. Anthropic says the model is too…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bryan Hornung, Reginald Andre, Randy Bryan

Topics covered

• AI in cybersecurity
• data exposure
• vendor risk
• firewall security
• government tools vs business risks

Keywords

• NSA
• AI
• data exposure
• Texas
• firewalls
• vendor risk
• cybersecurity
• Anthropic
• Mythos

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NSA, Anthropic

Products: Claude, Mythos

Places: Texas, Fortinet

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