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Today we're speaking with Christopher Crowley, cybersecurity consultant through Montance and Senior Instructor with the SANS Institute, about the value of cybersecurity operations — how to measure it, how to express it to the business, and how AI is changing the work of the SOC.

Intel Chat with Matt Bromiley and Chris Luft — recorded in person at Black Hat USA in Las Vegas, day two. No prep doc, no script: just what Matt and Chris were actually hearing on the floor. Stories covered: Chapters: The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast — a podcast about cybersecurity and the people that keep the internet safe. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe wherever you listen.

Intel Chat with Matt Bromiley and Chris Luft. Matt and Chris break down four stories from the week in threat intel: Plus: Google Threat Intelligence Group retires APT/FIN nomenclature for new threat-actor names, and where to find Chris and Matt at Black Hat. Stories covered: Chapters: The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast — a podcast about cybersecurity and the people that keep the internet safe. New episodes drop weekly.

The most pleasant agentic AI system is the least secure one. That's the trap Rob van der Veer, Chief AI Officer at Software Improvement Group, lays out clearly: the agent that never says "permission denied" is the agent everyone loves to use. It always works. So we open up all the privileges just to keep it that way. He says we should do the contrary.

Today we're speaking with Rob van der Veer, Chief AI Officer at Software Improvement Group, about how organizations can build trustworthy AI in an era of rapidly evolving technology and regulation — AI security, threat modeling, international standards, and the new challenges posed by agentic AI.

A walkthrough of Cloud Security in LimaCharlie — CNAPP capability built into the SecOps Cloud Platform. Connect your cloud and SaaS providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Okta, Google Workspace, GitHub, Cloudflare, Anthropic, and even other LimaCharlie orgs) and everything is normalized into a single security graph: identities, permissions, workloads, and data. The engine reasons over that graph to surface attack paths — evidence-backed chains an attacker could actually walk — instead of isolated checkbox findings.

This workshop will cover the basics of the LimaCharlie SecOps platform. You will learn how to deploy EDR agents, gather additional telemetry and write detection and response rules, and integrate threat intelligence and YARA rules to detect and mitigate threats. Key Learning Objectives: Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Agent Deployment and Management: Learn the best practices for deploying LimaCharlie EDR agents across diverse environments. Understand the various deployment methods, agent configurations, and how to effectively manage agent health and status at scale.

Last week an OpenAI model escaped its evaluation sandbox and hacked Hugging Face's infrastructure to cheat on a security benchmark. We recorded a special episode of AI Chat about it. Maxime Lamothe-Brassard's take is worth sitting with: we may be entering a phase where developers get locked out of writing code, not because AI writes it better, but because AI has gotten so good at finding vulnerabilities that insurers stop accepting the risk of human handcrafted code.

AI Chat with Maxime Lamothe-Brassard and Chris Luft — a special episode. One story, pulled apart start to finish. In mid-July 2026, Hugging Face disclosed a breach of its production infrastructure carried out end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent. Five days later, OpenAI revealed the attacker was its own models — GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model — which broke out of an internal cyber-capability evaluation called ExploitGym and reached into Hugging Face's production systems to steal the benchmark's answer key.

Chris Luft and Matt Bromiley cover four stories in this week's Intel Chat that all point to the same trend: attackers are keeping pace with how fast AI tools are being built and deployed. They break down a chatbot pipeline vulnerability in Google Dialogflow CX, a phishing technique that hides malicious content until it renders in the browser, four newly exploited vulnerabilities added to CISA's KEV catalog, and an attack that exploits AI coding assistants' tendency to hallucinate fake repository names.