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KB is on the ground at SAP Sapphire 2026 in Orlando, where AI has moved beyond experimentation and into the center of enterprise decision making. In this KB On The Go episode, Maura Hameroff (CMO, Cloud ERP Private and RISE with SAP) makes the case that modernizing your core is a business transformation decision rather than a technical upgrade, and that companies still running on legacy systems carry more operational and security risk than most realize.
Then Ted Way, PhD (VP & Chief Product Officer, Business AI Product Engineering, SAP) walks through what responsible enterprise AI actually takes: a governance layer, real business process knowledge, and data you can trust. As he puts it, AI first without security first is just a faster way to a data breach. A grounded look at what it takes to move from AI pilots to AI at scale without cutting corners that come back to bite you.
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In this episode, Anna Wheeler, CEO of SSAW LLC, joins KB as she explains why so many cyber teams are stuck in event-driven strategy while calling it the real thing, why the doers can’t climb out of it because their KPIs won’t let them, and why visionary CEOs keep getting ousted when the board can’t see what they see. Along the way: the CEOs quietly burning more AI tokens than anyone else in their company, vendors winning unicorn exits on marketing rather than technology, adversaries stealing encrypted data as a long game, and what happens when boards start making decisions on synthetic confidence.
Her closing advice for leaders: get very comfortable with being uncomfortable, and go looking for the sources you’d normally avoid.
About Anna:Anna Wheeler is a cybersecurity strategist and former Army Blackhawk crew chief who has spent the last two decades helping government and industry modernize how they secure missions, data, and critical infrastructure. She has led federal modernization and cyber campaigns across DHS and the wider national security community, shaping multi‑billion‑dollar technology portfolios and advancing cloud, Zero Trust, and AI‑driven approaches to resilience. As CEO of SSAW LLC and a trusted advisor to C‑suites, boards, and policymakers, Anna is known for turning buzzword-heavy innovation into pragmatic, mission‑aligned change. She serves on multiple advisory boards, mentors rising cyber leaders, and speaks frequently on moving from “FOMO to focus” in cybersecurity innovation.
Keywords: AI strategy, CISO, board of directors, CEO, cybersecurity leadership, event-driven strategy, strategic thinking, synthetic confidence, AI bias, go-to-market, vendor marketing, Symantec, SBOM, harvest now decrypt later, cybersecurity podcast
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Recorded at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, where 20,000 operators, engineers and executives gathered at Mandalay Bay to shape the future of networking, AI and cybersecurity. KB sits down with two Cisco leaders confronting the problems AI is creating and the infrastructure built to outlast them. Tom Gillis, SVP and GM of Cisco’s Infrastructure and Security Group, explains why the gap between a vulnerability being disclosed and exploited has collapsed from months to hours, and how Live Protect shields critical flaws between patches with no reboot and no downtime. Then Ramana Kompella, Head of Cisco Research and Cisco Fellow, makes the case for quantum networking over ever bigger quantum computers, unpacks the new Universal Quantum Switch, and explains why “harvest now, decrypt later” makes quantum safe infrastructure a today decision, not a 2029 one.
Key topics: AI accelerated exploitation, vulnerability shielding and Live Protect, continuous infrastructure updates and digital twins, quantum networking, the Universal Quantum Switch, post quantum cryptography and CNSA 2.0, and the harvest now decrypt later threat.
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John leads customer success, presales, and professional services across APAC at Workato and serves as Field CTO for the region. With more than twenty-five years of experience, including roles at Oracle and TIBCO and as co-founder of Rubicon Red, he focuses on helping enterprises unlock real, lasting value from AI and integration.
In this episode of KBKast, John joins KB to unpack why 42% of AI initiatives were abandoned in 2025, up from 17% the year before, and why the answer isn’t the technology. It’s trust.
John explains why AI is a bigger deal than cloud ever was: what used to be storage and processing is now decision and action inside core enterprise systems. He takes aim at “governance theater,” the steering committees and policy documents that create a feeling of control while nobody can actually see what an agent is doing. And he lands the warning every security leader needs to hear: you got away with over-provisioning access for humans, because humans never went looking. Agents will.
Also covered: the tokenomics panic, 700% month-on-month cost blowouts, why AI shouldn’t re-map a purchase order every single time, who owns the agent when things go wrong, and why a central control plane is the only way to govern agents at scale.
Keywords: AI agents, agentic AI, AI governance, governance theater, enterprise AI, AI security, control plane, observability, MCP, tokenomics, AI cost management, AI strategy, CISO, agent permissions, Workato, shadow AI, AI ROI, autonomous agents
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KB grabs the mic backstage at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos for two conversations that sit on either end of the same problem: how leaders should be thinking about risk in an unstable world, and what it actually looks like when a sector has been living that instability for years.
First up, KB sits down with Chris Krebs, former Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). They get into the CISA cuts making headlines, why old assumptions baked into risk registers no longer hold, and the five cracks Chris sees forming in the foundation of modern risk management. He also breaks down why boards need to push vendors harder on third-party risk, and why cyber has become the opening move in every modern conflict.
Then Tom Huth, Specialist in Energy Market Cyber Incident Coordination at AEMO, and Ryan McLaren, co-founder and COO of Retrospect Labs, bring it back to ground level. They unpack why the energy sector’s tight-knit supply chain has made it a genuine leader in cyber resilience, the difference between a tabletop exercise and a full functional simulation, and the trust problem nobody’s fully solved: how do you verify who’s really on the other end of the phone when your systems go down? A grounded look at what it takes to build real muscle memory before the bad day arrives.
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KB is on the ground at SAP Sapphire in Orlando, where AI has officially moved beyond experimentation and into the core of enterprise decision making. In two conversations, Marielle Ehrmann (Chief Security, Compliance and Risk Officer, SAP) unpacks why AI governance has entered the boardroom as an accelerator rather than a brake, what separates responsible AI from AI theater, and why the biggest risk usually isn’t the model itself but the humans around it.
Then Martin Merz (President Sovereign Cloud, SAP) explains why sovereign cloud has surged back into the conversation, the four dimensions SAP uses to define it, and why Australia’s pragmatic regulatory approach puts it among the top countries he works with globally. A grounded look at trust, governance and what it actually takes to innovate at enterprise scale.
Keywords: AI governance, sovereign cloud, enterprise AI risk, digital sovereignty, responsible AI
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Mark Jones is Co Founder of MosaicalAI and has spent more than 25 years working across cybersecurity, technology risk, governance and resilience in complex environments where decisions need to be defensible and the cost of getting it wrong is high.
His work sits at the intersection of security, business leadership and change. He helps organisations understand risk, build capability in their people, create practical operating models, and move with confidence when technology is changing faster than traditional governance can keep up.
Today, Mark’s work is focused on AI. At MosaicalAI, he helps Australian organisations rebuild how teams work for the agentic era. His view is that every team runs on three things: people, technology and data, but most teams are still operating on a model built before AI. MosaicalAI maps how a team works today, builds the agentic version beside it, then rebuilds it with them.
Mark’s approach is AI native and cybersecurity driven. He does not start with tools or generic productivity use cases. He starts with the team, the workflow, the data, the controls, the risks and the decisions that matter. The goal is practical AI capability that the organisation owns, understands and can govern.
Cybersecurity is MosaicalAI’s first proof point because it is where AI adoption gets real quickly. Cyber teams already understand risk, evidence, accountability, control and resilience. When they use AI to improve triage, reporting, exposure management, control mapping, evidence gathering and decision support, they are better placed to guide safe AI adoption across the broader business.
Mark believes AI cannot simply be bolted onto an organisation. It needs ownership, guardrails, evidence, accountability, resilience and control from day one.
He is a Certified Information Security Manager and Certified Information Systems Security Professional, combining practical executive experience with globally recognised security credentials.
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Recorded at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, where 20,000 operators, engineers and executives gathered at Mandalay Bay to shape the future of networking, AI and cybersecurity. KB sits down with two Cisco security leaders on the front lines of agentic AI. Peter Bailey, SVP and GM of Cisco Security, breaks down why the security frameworks built over the last 20 years weren’t designed for machine-speed agents, and what governance actually needs to look like now. Then Amy Chang, Head of AI Threat Intelligence and Security Research, reveals how adversarial attacks are moving beyond text into images and audio in ways that are invisible to the human eye but not to your agents.
Key topics: agentic AI governance, prompt injection and jailbreaks, multimodal attack vectors, MCP security gaps, identity in AI environments, security by design, and the post-Mythos threat landscape.
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KB grabs the mic backstage at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos for two conversations that couldn’t look more different on the surface, but end up pointing at the same thing: where cyber threats really come from, and who’s pushing back.
First up, KB sits down with Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness, Australia’s National Cybersecurity Coordinator, and Steph Way, Director of the National Office of Cybersecurity. They get into what those 60 actions under Horizon 1 actually delivered, how limited use legislation is changing the way businesses talk to government after an incident, and why cyber resilience can’t just sit with the technical few — it has to be something every Australian feels some ownership of.
Then James Taliento, CEO of AFTRDRK, and Jeremy Kirk, Director of Intelligence at Okta, bring it down to ground level. Cybercrime-as-a-service has made it possible for almost anyone with a internet connection to get in the game, and the latest wave of threat actors isn’t in it for ideology or even the money. It’s the thrill, the bragging rights, and a kind of rockstar lifestyle that’s being actively sold to a younger generation. It’s a candid, practical chat about what all of that means for defenders today.
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Pete Harteveld was appointed CEO of Exabeam in October 2025 and most recently served as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer. He has more than two decades of leadership experience having built a reputation for scaling revenue and building high-performing global teams across the cybersecurity and technology sectors.
Pete played a pivotal role in uniting Exabeam and LogRhythm in 2024, leveraging his deep expertise in mergers and acquisitions to drive a seamless integration and maximise stakeholder value. His earlier career included leadership roles at Aryaka, Veracode, Compuware, and Deloitte, where he guided complex integrations, redefined go-to-market strategies, and delivered measurable impact for customers and partners alike.
At Exabeam, Harteveld is focused on advancing the mission to secure the world from cyberthreats. His leadership centers on empowering customers with cutting-edge solutions, fostering innovation that drives business outcomes, and cultivating a culture of excellence that inspires teams to achieve their best.
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KB is on the ground at the ISACA 2026 North American Conference in Las Vegas, this time for the AI conversation that’s reshaping ROI, risk and governance all at once.
Sushila Nair, Independent Information Security Consultant, and President of the ISACA Greater Washington D.C. chapter, opens with the AI ROI question everyone keeps circling. She walks through ISACA’s latest AI Pulse research, explains why last year’s AI was your friend and this year’s AI has put its hard hat on, and breaks down the shift from chatbots to agents that’s finally moving the numbers. One of her clients went from 4 agents in proof of concept to 140 in production this year. She also covers the workforce transformation underneath all of it, who’s getting displaced first, and why automation is the real driver of cost savings.
Then Mark Thomas, Founder & President of Escoute Consulting and board advisor and ISACA hall of Fame entrant, joins to talk about what all of this means for governance and risk. He walks through ISACA’s new AAIR certification (Advanced AI Risk), why traditional frameworks aren’t outdated but incomplete, and how concepts like drift, calibration and model cards are becoming non-negotiable. His central argument: accountability has to come before architecture, and you can’t certify a moving target with a static framework.
More about ISACA’s AAIR Certification here: https://www.isaca.org/credentialing/aairISACA® 2026 AI Pulse Poll: https://www.isaca.org/resources/ai-pulse-poll
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As a specialist in networking and software development, Vincent joined the F5 team in France in 2000 as a pre-sales engineer. Having contributed to F5’s growth initially in the French market and South EMEA region, he took on several managerial roles before overseeing from 2018 the EMEA pre-sales teams as the VP of Solutions Engineering for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). From 2025, Vincent has been appointed into the role of VP Global AI Leader managing an international team of Global Solutions Architects focused on AI.
Vincent holds a degree in network engineering and software development from ESITCOM, and a technical degree in Telecommunications and Network engineering.
He speaks at events across the globe about Artificial Intelligence and specifically about performing AI inference at scale.
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KB takes the mic behind the scenes at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos, where 1,500 people from across cyber, legal, tech and government packed a room to do something rare: shift the entire industry’s focus from the moment of crisis to what comes before it. In two conversations, Reece Corbett-Wilkins and Leah Pinto reflect on the day, the speakers, and what it actually takes to change an industry’s centre of gravity.
Then Anthony Cooke, James Blakely and Michael Boyd unpack why government can be a friend and a facilitator rather than the fun police, the trust that limited use disclosure has unlocked, and what frameworks like Horizon 2 mean for the small businesses sitting at the underbelly of every supply chain. A practical, hopeful look at collaboration, accountability and what cyber resilience looks like when everyone in the room speaks the same language.
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Snowflake has recently appointed Mayank Upadhyay its Chief Security and Trust Officer to lead security efforts.
Mayank brings one of the most influential careers in enterprise security to Snowflake. During his more than two decades at Google, he shaped the modern security landscape, ultimately serving as Vice President of Engineering for Google Cloud where he secured both the public-facing Google Cloud Platform and the private cloud infrastructure powering core Google services. Prior to this, his career progression to Distinguished Engineer was defined by a sequence of foundational technologies he delivered.
Today, as CSTO at Snowflake, he secures the data and AI foundation for 11,000+ customers (including over a third of the Fortune Global 2000), giving him a unique, front-row vantage point on how AI is fundamentally reshaping enterprise security.
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KB is on the ground at ISACA 2026 North American Conference in Las Vegas, sitting down with two guests pulling at the same thread from different angles: the gap between how dependent we’ve become on modern tools and how little we actually understand them.
First, Pam Nigro, SVP of Security and Security Officer at Medecision and Board Director at ISACA, unpacks why supply chain has become the most vulnerable area in cyber security right now. She gets into the hidden risks sitting inside SaaS dependencies, API chains and open source libraries deployed once and forgotten, what operational paralysis actually looks like when a critical tool goes down, and why companies need to stop treating supply chain as a vendor risk checkbox and start treating it as a resilience problem.
Then Asaf Weisberg, CEO of introSight and Board Director at ISACA, joins to flip the AI ROI conversation. While recent ISACA research shows most companies still can’t measure return on AI investment, Asaf argues the ROI is already obvious if you know where to look. He breaks down why traditional ROI calculations don’t fit AI, what’s happening inside software teams right now with tools like Claude Code, and the very real risk of leaking your most valuable IP through free AI subscriptions.
More about ISACA’s AAIR Certification here: https://www.isaca.org/credentialing/aairISACA® 2026 AI Pulse Poll: https://www.isaca.org/resources/ai-pulse-poll
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John Wojcik, Senior Threat Researcher, Infoblox:
Based in Bangkok, Thailand, John is a seasoned threat intelligence researcher who has spent his career following cybercriminal activity in the Southeast Asia region. Recently, his work at Infoblox has focused on pig butchering as a service, exposing sophisticated global money laundering, human trafficking and slave operations in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and the Philippines. John previously worked for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, where he worked with local and international authorities on uncovering major cybercriminal activities in the region.
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In this episode of KB on the Go, recorded at Atmos SPHERE 2026, Karissa Breen brings together two conversations united by one uncomfortable truth: we have built fast, efficient, hyper connected societies, and quietly traded away our resilience.
First, Karissa sits down with Admiral Mike Rogers, Global Advisory Board member at CyberCX, and Alastair MacGibbon, Independent Adviser, to unpack what real national resilience looks like in 2026. They explore why cyber is no longer just about protecting data, but about availability and integrity, what happens when you can no longer trust the systems you depend on, and why it so often takes a crisis before meaningful change happens.
Then, Karissa is joined by Heather Osborne, Director of Global Events and Programming at NetDiligence, and Stefanie Luhrs, Partner, First Response at Atmos, to dig into what the 2026 cyber loss data is really telling us. The conversation covers the rising cost of business interruption, the long tail of human and reputational impact after a breach, the strain on B2B relationships, and the wave of regulatory activity expected in Australia over the next twelve months.
Two conversations, one shared message: we are optimised for cheapest and fastest, but not for when things break, and resilience is the conversation we keep putting off.
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Dominic Vogel is a well-respected cyber security thought leader appearing on media news outlets across the world. As a veteran cyber security expert and thought leader, Dominic holds a proven track record across multitude of industries (financial services, logistics, transportation, healthcare, government, telecommunications, and critical infrastructure). Dominic is a firm believer in delivering sustainable security that supports and protects business goals. Having worked within large and globally diverse organizations he has extensive security experience that has been forged over the past two decades as an information security professional.
Dominic is a 2x founder who has focused on providing unbiased actionable cyber security strategic guidance and advice to startups and small businesses across North America. Dominic is the President at Vogel Cyber Leadership & Coaching, a Vancouver-based leadership advisory company specializing in cyber risk management He is also a self-professed positive troll and professional hype man and believes in the power of uplifting others through his high-energy coaching practice.
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Dmitry Volkov is a cybersecurity veteran, technology entrepreneur, and the dynamic leader of Group-IB and its team of over 250 cyber defenders. Recognized as one of the top seven influencers in global cybersecurity by Business Insider, Dmitry is also a member of the Europol EC3 Advisory Group and the UN Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Group.
In 2003, Dmitry co-founded Group-IB as a cyber investigations startup. Two decades later, the company has evolved into a cybersecurity leader known for its engineering innovations. Group-IB now protects public and private enterprises in more than 60 countries, supported by strategic and autonomous operational units, Digital Crime Resistance Centers (DCRCs), located in the Middle East, Europe, Central Asia, Asia-Pacific, and Chile.
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Recorded live from Extreme Connect in Orlando, KB sits down with Markus Nispel, CTO EMEA & Head of Office of the CTO at Extreme Networks, and Michael Jones (MJ), VP of AI and Innovation, Office of the CTO at Extreme Networks.
Markus gets into why networks are now a boardroom conversation, what real time data means for agentic systems, and the shift from human in the loop to human on the loop. He also unpacks the guardrails and controls that determine whether agentic AI becomes a trusted operator or a liability.
MJ tackles agent sprawl, why context beats the model, and the “jagged edge of intelligence” where AI can do PhD level work one minute and fumble basic tasks the next. Plus why sitting out the experimentation phase is the most expensive thing you can do right now.
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