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Two U.S. banks disclosed a breach at the same unnamed third-party vendor in April 2026, with six class action lawsuits in two weeks. A regulatory clock about to start at suspicion, an NYDFS letter telling covered entities exactly what to do, and an insurance underwriter asking the same questions — Lens Four works through what the disclosure language is leaving out and what carries a CISO through the moment a vendor they cannot control fails on their watch.

PODCAST EPISODE | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli Pablos Holman has built spaceships, zapped malaria-carrying mosquitoes with a laser, earned thousands of patents, and is now betting his venture capital on the inventors Silicon Valley forgot to fund. His new book, *Deep Future: Creating Technology That Matters*, is a call to arms against a tech industry that got drunk on software and forgot about the other 98% of the world. 📺 Watch | 🎙️ Listen | marcociappelli.com

Mama duck had two daughters, and she loved taking them on trips to faraway places. The two ducklings had few friends, but they often went out and about. They played in the farmyard pretending to be a group, and even on their birthday, they ate the big cake all by themselves. As a gift, Mama decided to take them on a cruise to Mars. She organized the trip on a spaceship for tourists, got tickets for an intergalactic Martian party, and departure as soon as possible — before you could say "quack quack."

Marco Ciappelli interviews Gil Bashe, Chair of Global Health & Purpose at FINN Partners and Author of Healing the Sick Care System: Why People Matter, for An Analog Brain In A Digital Age Podcast.

The hallway conversations at RSAC Conference 2026 all converged on one anxiety, and a new CSA report backs it up with numbers that should worry every security leader. Itamar Apelblat of Token Security translates what he heard on the floor into what enterprises need to do next about AI agents.

After RSAC Conference 2026 saturated the show floor with AI on every sticker and slide, Stellar Cyber sits down to cut through the noise with a different message: not all AI belongs in every layer of the SOC. This Brand Highlight unpacks why the right AI for the right problem, paired with a human in the loop, is the path that earns trust.

This was my twelfth RSA Conference. I know that because I remember the first one, 2012, and I've been counting ever since — not out of habit, but because each year feels like a chapter in a longer story I'm trying to read in real time. Twelve years of standing in that same building in San Francisco, watching an industry evolve, stumble, reinvent itself, and occasionally look in the mirror.

Do Androids Dream of Security Patches? Reflections from RSAC 2026 — Walking the Floor of the Agentic World A new transmission from An Analog Brain In A Digital Age — formerly Musing On Society and Technology Newsletter, by Marco Ciappelli The theme of RSAC 2026 was "The Power of Community." Nearly forty-four thousand people descended on the Moscone Center in San Francisco for four days of keynotes, corridor conversations, and expo floor theater. Six hundred exhibitors. Hundreds of speakers. And one word — one concept, one obsession — that swallowed everything else whole.

Your dashcam is capturing far more than accidents -- and researchers Alina Tan and George Chen have built an automated tool to prove it, compromising dashcams in under six minutes through a fast food drive-through. This conversation explores how connected vehicle peripherals have become a gateway to privacy invasion, mobile botnets, and a surveillance attack surface that most organizations and consumers are completely unprepared to defend.

Are you investing in digital marketing — or just paying the Silicon Valley tax? Nick Richtsmeier of CultureCraft joins Marco Ciappelli to talk about why most organizations are stuck, why marketing alone can't fix it, and what it actually takes to build trust in a humanist way.

Project Glasswing gave 12 elite technology and financial organizations direct access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview — an AI model that autonomously found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in weeks — to scan their own proprietary infrastructure and help set disclosure timelines. The rest of the world gets the downstream patches eventually, but on a timeline they didn't set, using CVE and CVSS systems built on assumptions this model just broke.

When a production line stops, the financial damage is immediate -- and the window to respond safely is narrower than most security teams realize. Rob Demain, CEO and Founder of e2e-assure, joins this Brand Highlight to explain why OT security demands a fundamentally different mindset than IT, and what organizations can do about it.

At RSAC Conference 2026, Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli step away from the sessions and the show floor for a candid ten-minute exchange about what two breakfast conversations with CISOs revealed -- security is still treated as a compliance obligation, not a business driver, and the culture gap between the security industry and the rest of society is wider than ever.