Runtime security and the CISO challenge in the AI era

About this episode

Conor Sherman discusses the evolving role of security leaders in the age of AI and cloud-native infrastructure.

In this episode of Techzine TV from RSAC 2026 Conference, Conor Sherman, CISO in Residence at Sysdig, discusses the evolving role of security leaders in the age of AI and cloud-native infrastructure. Sherman shares insights on how CISOs are adapting to rapidly changing threat landscapes where attackers can compromise cloud environments in as little as eight minutes. Key takeaways: • The time from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation has collapsed to under 20 hours • Runtime security has ...

People in this episode

Guest: Conor Sherman

Topics covered

• runtime security
• CISO
• AI
• cloud-native infrastructure
• threat landscape

Keywords

• runtime security
• CISO
• AI
• cloud-native
• threat landscape
• vulnerability disclosure
• exploitation

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Organizations: Sysdig

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