Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In this episode, host Richard Bejtlich sits down with Corelight Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Greg Bell to unpack groundbreaking research that quantifies exactly how data quality impacts AI-driven security automation. Moving past qualitative industry hype, Greg shares hard evidence from an empirical experiment pitting leading AI agents against real-world Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges and incident response report writing. The findings reveal a dramatic truth: basic firewall and flow logs place a hard cap on inference, throttling an LLM's capacity for deep insight.

AI companies are refusing to release models because the rules around safety, surveillance and misuse are still too weak. When governments cannot keep pace, private companies end up deciding how powerful AI models should be used, controlled and withheld.

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A firewall rule set to allow any source to any destination can stay live for months. It cancels out the rules beneath it and lets traffic pass unchecked. That kind of drift sets off no alarm. It builds up between quarterly reviews, while small teams govern 50 or more firewalls and hundreds of rule changes a week. Reach Network Security Assurance finds these controls, shows how long each has been open, ties the finding to real exposure, and guides the fix.