About this episode

The episode discusses the application of AI in frontline threat intelligence workflows through human-machine teaming.

Host Luke McNamara is joined by Jake Nicastro, who leads the AI function for the Frontline Intelligence Operations team within the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). Jake details how his team is shifting from simple prompt engineering to more advanced agentic workflows, focusing on a model of "human-machine teaming." He shares practical use cases for AI in CTI—including automated script decoding, hunting query creation, and streamlining repetitive metadata-labeling tasks. Jake also disc...

People in this episode

Host: Luke McNamara

Guest: Jake Nicastro

Topics covered

• AI
• threat intelligence
• human-machine teaming
• automated workflows
• cyber threat intelligence

Keywords

• AI
• threat intelligence
• human-machine collaboration
• automated tasks
• metadata labeling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google Threat Intelligence Group

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