Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Security teams are drowning in alerts, and AI might not be the answer everyone thinks it is. In this episode, Erik Bloch, VP of Security at Illumio, breaks down the math on why AI-powered alert triage may be financially unfeasible for most organizations. With 85 to 90 percent of alerts being non-malicious, security teams are still sorting through massive volumes of noise to find the real threats. Many vendors are betting that AI will solve this problem by triaging alerts at scale. But the reality?

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On this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast we speak with Erik Bloch, VP of Security at Illumio, about better tools to combat burnout rate and discuss the reality of AI in security. Erik Bloch has 30+ years of information and cyber security experience, both as an IC and as a leader of teams. “People first” has always been his approach. He has led entire security and IT functions at smaller companies, and been the CISOs leading big teams at larger orgs.

PCI compliance has never been about passing a single audit and forgetting about it until next year. In our recent PCI DSS 4.0 session, author Branden R. Williams explained why point-in-time assessments create a false sense of security. Passing a compliance report doesn't mean you'll still be compliant two days later if something changes. Configuration drift happens. Systems change. Sometimes it's accidental. Other times, organizations deliberately configure things to pass an assessment, then revert to their old ways afterward.