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AI is changing how enterprises operate, but are security, cloud operations, and infrastructure keeping up?
Hosted by Jo Peterson, CIO of Clarify360 and Chief Analyst at ClearTech Research, ClearTech Loop goes beyond the hype to examine the technologies, security risks, and operational challenges shaping enterprise IT.
Each episode features direct, insightful conversations with cybersecurity leaders, industry analysts, and technology innovators tackling the questions that matter most to today's businesses.
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- Shadow AI Is Already Inside Your Enterprise | Anthony Russell · 16 min · Season 4 Episode 9Send us Fan Mail Your engineers may be using AI agents your security team doesn't even know exist. Those agents could be accessing sensitive data, handling company code, or…
- Your AI May Be Smarter Than You. Can You Still Control It? · 15 min · Season 4 Episode 8Send us Fan Mail What happens when AI becomes capable of making decisions its creators can't fully anticipate or control? AI agents are gaining autonomy, accessing enterprise…
- Your AI Is Making Decisions Your Company Can't Defend with Maribel Lopez · 15 min · Season 4 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail Your company has an AI governance committee. Great. But when an AI agent makes a decision that harms your business, who actually has the authority to shut it…
- AI Agents Are Getting Hired Without Background Checks. Here's the Risk| Rasha Horn · 9 min · Season 4 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail Your company wouldn't hire an employee without onboarding, supervision, or defined access. So why are AI agents being given responsibilities without those same…
- AI Agents Are Roaming Without IDs. Enterprise Security Isn’t Ready · 19 min · Season 4 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail AI agents are moving across systems, making decisions and, in some cases, creating other agents. But enterprises still do not have consistent standards for…
- AI Agents Are Already Working for You. Do You Know Who They Are? · 12 min · Season 4 Episode 4Send us Fan Mail AI agents are already operating inside enterprises, accessing systems, making decisions and, in some cases, creating other agents. The problem? Many…
- Your AI Agent Just Found Everything You Forgot to Secure · 14 min · Season 4 Episode 3Send us Fan Mail AI agents are gaining credentials, permissions and the ability to act across enterprise systems. But what happens when they discover years of forgotten files…
- AI Agents Don’t Care About Your Governance Committee | Louis Columbus · 18 min · Season 4 Episode 3Send us Fan Mail AI governance may exist on paper. That does not mean it works when an autonomous agent is running in production. Louis Columbus, senior cybersecurity contributor…
- Your AI Agent Is a Narcissist — And That’s a Security Problem · 12 min · Season 4 Episode 2Send us Fan Mail Your AI agent has one job: accomplish the objective. It doesn’t care about your policies. It doesn’t worry about getting fired. And it may not stop when a human…
- AI Agent Governance: Who Owns the Risk? with Benny Czarny of OPSWAT · 15 min · Season 4 Episode 1Send us Fan Mail Guest Benny Czarny CEO, Founder & Chairman of the Board OPSWAT Host Jo Peterson CIO, Clarify360 Chief Analyst, ClearTech Research AI agents have credentials…
- Your AI Agents Are Already Running. Can You See Them? | Alvaro Gonzalez · 17 min · Season 3 Episode 8Send us Fan Mail AI agents can hold credentials, access sensitive data, make decisions and even create other identities. But many organizations still cannot answer a basic…
- AI Agents Are New. The Security Fundamentals Are Not · 17 min · Season 3 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail The conversation around AI is shifting from what agents can do to how enterprises actually govern and secure them. In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson…
- Can AI Agents Earn Your Trust? Elliott Mattice on AI Governance · 27 min · Season 3 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail 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…
- What Happens When an AI Agent Acts Without Permission? · 16 min · Season 3 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail 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…
- Okta’s AI Blueprint: Moving AI Agents from Shadow to Governed · 14 min · Season 3 Episode 4Send us Fan Mail 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…
- Derek Fisher on AI Governance, AI Agents & MCP Risk · 14 min · Season 3 Episode 3Send us Fan Mail AI governance is no longer just a policy conversation. As AI moves into business workflows, sanctioned platforms, employee tools, local models, agents, and…
- AWS Security Hub: Centralized Identity Risk Management for Agentic AI · 10 min · Season 3 Episode 2Send us Fan Mail In this ClearTech Loop Special Edition from AWS Summit New York, Jo Peterson speaks with Himanshu Verma, Worldwide Leader for Security, Identity, and Governance…
- The USB Problem for AI: Phil Stafford on Agents, Governance, and MCP Risk · 13 min · Season 3 Episode 1Send us Fan Mail Short Description Season 3 of ClearTech Loop kicks off with AI security architect Phil Stafford in a practical conversation about AI governance, agent…
- AI Security: Gerald Auger on Shadow AI, Non Human Identities, and AI Defense · 16 min · Season 2 Episode 10Send us Fan Mail 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…
- AI Security: Maybelyn Plecic on Shadow AI, Non Human Identities, and AI Defense · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 9Send us Fan Mail 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…
