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ClearTech Loop is a fast, focused podcast delivering sharp, soundbite-ready insights on what’s next in cybersecurity, cloud, and AI. Hosted by Jo Peterson, Chief Analyst at ClearTech Research, each 10-minute episode explores today’s most pressing tech and risk issues through a business-focused lens. Whether it’s CISOs rethinking cyber strategy or AI reshaping risk governance, ClearTech Loop brings clarity to a shifting landscape—built for tech leaders who don’t have time for fluff. We cut through hype. We rethink assumptions. We keep you in the loop.
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What if an AI agent had to earn—and keep—its access based on how it behaved? In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with Elliott Mattice, founder of Exprima, to examine trust as the missing operating layer between AI security and AI governance. Traditional controls can define an agent’s identity and permissions. Governance frameworks can establish policies and accountability. Elliott argues that organizations still need something in the middle: continuous behavio...
What happens when an AI agent takes an action no one authorized? The answer is not, “The model did it.” In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with cybersecurity and technology executive Billy Spears to unpack the gap between AI policy and actual AI control. They discuss: Who is accountable when an AI agent makes an unauthorized decision Why agents should never inherit broad permissions by default How identity and authorization must work at ...
AI agents are becoming part of the enterprise workforce, but many organizations still do not know where those agents are, what they can access, or what they are allowed to do. In this ClearTech Loop Special Edition sponsored by Okta, Jo Peterson speaks with Matthew Hansen, Regional Chief Security Officer and Head of Customer Audit at Okta, about the identity challenge behind agentic AI. They discuss Okta’s AI Blueprint, Okta for AI Agents, and why enterprises need to treat AI agen...
AI governance is no longer just a policy conversation. As AI moves into business workflows, sanctioned platforms, employee tools, local models, agents, and third-party services, organizations need to understand where AI is being used, what it can access, who approved it, and who owns the outcome when something goes wrong. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson speaks with Derek Fisher, founder of Securely Built, cybersecurity educator, author, and Director of Temple University’s...
In this ClearTech Loop Special Edition from AWS Summit New York, Jo Peterson speaks with Himanshu Verma, Worldwide Leader for Security, Identity, and Governance Specialists at AWS, about how agentic AI is changing the identity risk conversation. They discuss why AI agents need to be treated as non-human identities, how AWS Security Hub helps centralize identity risk management, and why multi-Region resilience matters for enterprise security leaders. Episode Description AI ag...
Short Description Season 3 of ClearTech Loop kicks off with AI security architect Phil Stafford in a practical conversation about AI governance, agent permissions, fractional identity, and why MCP servers may be the next software supply chain risk hiding in plain sight. Episode Description AI agents are moving from interesting experiments into real business environments. That means they are not just answering questions anymore. They are calling tools, touching systems, inher...
AI is moving faster than policy, training, and many traditional controls were designed to handle. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with Gerald Auger, Chief Content Creator of Simply Cyber, about shadow AI, non human identities, over-permissioned agents, and what AI defense means when AI systems can act at machine speed. Gerald brings the educator, GRC, and practitioner-community lens to the conversation. His take is practical: organizations probably cannot put ...
Your AI policy does not matter much if no one understands how to follow it. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with Maybelyn Plecic, Manager of Training and Adoption at Network to Code, about shadow AI, non human identities, and what AI defense actually means when people are already using AI to get work done. Maybelyn brings a security, compliance, training, and adoption lens to the conversation. She is CISSP certified, AWS certified, and has spent her career hel...
ClearTech Loop is a fast, focused podcast delivering sharp, soundbite-ready insights on what’s next in cybersecurity, cloud, and AI. Hosted by Jo Peterson, Chief Analyst at ClearTech Research, each 10-minute episode explores today’s most pressing tech and risk issues through a business-focused lens. Whether it’s CISOs rethinking cyber strategy or AI reshaping risk governance, ClearTech Loop brings clarity to a shifting landscape—built for tech leaders who don’t have time for fluff. We cut through hype. We rethink assumptions. We keep you in the loop.
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