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  • New Book: Climate Capital — Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future | An Interview with Tom Chi | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli

    New Book: Climate Capital — Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future | An Interview with Tom Chi | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
    Mar 1 2026
    New Book: Climate Capital — Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future | An Interview with Tom Chi | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli What if the economy isn't broken — just badly designed? Tom Chi, Google X founding member, inventor of 77 patents, and venture capitalist at At One Ventures, joined me on An Analog Brain In A Digital Age to discuss his new book Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future. From the streets of Florence to the strip malls of Silicon Valley, from the mechanics of attention capture to the physics of ecological economics, this conversation goes far beyond climate. It's about how we design the systems we live inside — and whether we have the will to redesign them before it's too late. 📺 Watch | 🎙️ Listen | marcociappelli.com Article Body Tom Chi has worked on things that changed the world. Microsoft Office. Web search. The self-driving car. Google Glass. He'll tell you himself that not all of them were hits, and he's fine with that — that's what it means to be an inventor. But what he's working on now is different in scale from anything before. Not a product. Not a platform. A redesign of the global economy. His new book, Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future, starts from a premise that sounds radical until you think about it for more than a few minutes: economics is a design discipline. And right now, it's poorly designed. Not maliciously — poorly. We built systems optimized for short-term capital extraction, and we're living with the consequences. The question Tom is asking is whether we can redesign them before those consequences become irreversible. He didn't get there through ideology. He got there through Florence. Tom was auditing sustainable MBA courses alongside his partner when he was invited to a conference in Italy. He landed, got a day off, wandered the streets — and something clicked. The entire city is built from sustainable materials. And it's one of the most beautiful places on earth. That moment demolished an assumption he didn't even know he was carrying: that sustainable living means downgrading. Florence is a 2,000-year-old counterexample to every joke about Birkenstocks and cold showers. We knew how to do this. We just forgot. Which brings us to the first big thread of our conversation: the pattern of forgetting. We talked about this in the context of technology, not history. Specifically, how the shift from software you paid for to software supported by advertising quietly changed everything. When you pay for a tool, the goal is to make it better. When the tool is supported by advertisers, the goal is to keep you inside it as long as possible. Clippy used to annoy us because it interrupted our train of thought. Now interrupting our train of thought is the entire business model. Tom has a phrase for what's happening at scale: cognitive despoiling. We spent the 20th century strip mining the physical resources of the planet. We're spending the 21st century strip mining the cognitive resources of humanity. There's a finite number of coherent thoughts this civilization can produce. And we're burning through them — with misinformation, amygdala triggers, and dopamine loops — the same way we burned through forests and waterways. The damage is invisible because it's underwater, like ocean trawling. But it's real. And it compounds across generations. This is where I had to push back a little. Because I grew up in Florence. I made the jump to digital. I love my vinyls and I love my streaming library. I'm part of the contradiction he's describing. And I asked him: given all this, where do you even start? His answer is the most practical thing I've heard in a long time. Start with physical businesses. The ones actually causing most of the damage — to water, soil, air, biodiversity. And here's the part that almost nobody is talking about: 90% of the cost structure of a physical business already aligns ecological and economic goals. Fewer raw materials used means lower feedstock costs and less extraction. Less energy consumed means lower processing costs and fewer emissions. Shorter supply chains mean lower logistics costs and fewer transport emissions. The economy and the ecology are already pointing the same direction on 90% of what matters. The 5% that isn't aligned — pollution — is what the lobbyists fight about. So that's what dominates the news. And that's why we think this is harder than it is. Tom's firm, At One Ventures, is built around this insight. They invest in what he calls the triad: disruptive deep tech that delivers radically better unit economics and radically better environmental outcomes at the same time. Their portfolio companies don't sell sustainability. They sell efficiency. The ecological benefit is baked in by design. The customers buy it because it's cheaper and better. The planet wins as a side effect. That's the book. Part toolkit, ...
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    52 min
  • Asteroid Mining | Stories From Space Podcast With Matthew S Williams

    Asteroid Mining | Stories From Space Podcast With Matthew S Williams
    Mar 1 2026

    Host | Matthew S Williams

    For more podcast Stories from Space with Matthew S Williams, visit: https://itspmagazine.com/stories-from-space-podcast

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    Asteroid Mining: The Promise, the Problems, and the Philosophy

    Asteroid mining is one of those ideas that cycles in and out of public fascination — generating enormous excitement, then fading when people realize it won't happen within the next news cycle. But the concept never truly disappears, and for good reason.

    Near-Earth asteroids, numbering in the millions, contain staggering quantities of precious metals, rare earth elements, and water ice. Ironically, those same materials — iron, gold, platinum, nickel, and dozens of others — were originally delivered to Earth by asteroids during the Late Heavy Bombardment period some four billion years ago. We're essentially talking about going back to the source.

    The three main asteroid types — carbonaceous (C-type), silicate (S-type), and metallic (M-type) — each offer distinct resources. Beyond metals, the abundance of water ice in the solar system could relieve pressure on Earth's increasingly stressed freshwater supply and fuel deep-space missions.

    Philosophically, the implications are profound. Thomas More and Nietzsche both wrestled with why scarcity drives human value systems. Flood the market with space-borne metals and the entire economic architecture built on scarcity begins to crumble. Orwell saw it too — abundance erodes hierarchy. The first trillionaires born from asteroid mining might find their wealth meaningless almost immediately after making it.

    But the darker scenarios deserve equal attention. Redistributing consumption off-world doesn't eliminate it. Space debris, environmental degradation beyond Earth, and the very real risk of exploitative labor structures in off-world operations — echoes of colonialism and indentured servitude — are not science fiction. They're logical extensions of human patterns.

    The enthusiasm may ebb and flow, but asteroid mining remains an inevitable chapter in humanity's story. The real question is what kind of story we choose to write around it.

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    27 min
  • Do You Know What's In Your Software? A Cybersecurity Story with Manifest Cyber | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Daniel Bardenstein, Co-Founder at Manifest Cyber

    Do You Know What's In Your Software? A Cybersecurity Story with Manifest Cyber | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Daniel Bardenstein, Co-Founder at Manifest Cyber
    Feb 26 2026
    There is a question that sounds almost embarrassingly simple. After a vulnerability is discovered in a piece of widely used software — something like Log4Shell, which shook the security world and left hundreds of thousands of organizations exposed overnight — the question organizations scrambled to answer was this: where is this code, and what does it touch? Most couldn't answer it. Not the Fortune 500 companies. Not the government agencies. Not the critical infrastructure operators. Not the hospitals or the banks or the utilities. They had built and bought mountains of software over years and decades, and when the moment came to understand what was actually inside it, they were effectively blind. That gap is exactly what Daniel Bardenstein set out to close when he co-founded Manifest Cyber in 2023. And in a conversation on ITSPmagazine's Brand Highlight series, he made a case for technology transparency that is hard to argue with — not because it's technically complex, but because the analogy he draws is so strikingly obvious once you hear it. "If you want to buy a house, you get to go inside the house, do the home inspection," he said. "You want to buy food from the grocery store — you can look at the ingredients. Even our clothes tell you what they're made of, how to care for them, and where they're from." But software? The technology running hospital MRI machines, weapon systems, financial infrastructure, water delivery? No transparency required. No ingredient label. No inspection rights. Just trust. That trust, as Log4Shell demonstrated, is a vulnerability in itself. Bardenstein came to this problem with credentials that few founders in the space can claim. Before starting Manifest, he spent four and a half years in the US government leading large-scale cyber programs and serving as technology strategy lead at CISA — the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. He saw firsthand how defenders are perpetually at a disadvantage, operating without the basic visibility they need to do their jobs. His mission became building the tools to change that. The problem, he's quick to point out, has not improved in the years since Log4Shell. Software supply chain attacks have multiplied — XZ Utils, NPM Polyfill, and others following the same pattern: trusted software becomes the attack vector, and it spreads fast. Meanwhile, most security teams are still operating with SCA tools that generate noisy, overwhelming alerts and vendor risk programs built on Excel spreadsheets and questionnaires rather than actual empirical data about the security of what they're buying. "Security teams have a false sense of security," Bardenstein said. The gap between what organizations think they know and what they actually know about their software supply chains remains dangerously wide. Manifest Cyber addresses this across the full lifecycle. For organizations that build software, the platform maps every open source dependency, assesses it for risk, and ensures developers can write more secure code without losing velocity. For organizations that buy software — which is everyone — it finds risks before procurement, then continuously monitors every third party component so that when something breaks, they know the blast radius in seconds, not weeks. The timing matters. Regulation is catching up to the problem. The EU AI Act, the Cyber Resilience Act, and a growing body of global policy are beginning to demand exactly the kind of software supply chain transparency that Manifest is built to provide. Organizations that wait to build this capability will find themselves scrambling to comply — those that build it in now will have it as a competitive advantage. The ingredient label for software has always been missing. Manifest Cyber is writing it. ________________________________________________________________ Marco Ciappelli interviews Daniel Bardenstein, CEO & Co-Founder of Manifest Cyber, for ITSPmagazine's Brand Highlight series. HOST Marco Ciappelli — Co-Founder & CMO, ITSPmagazine | Journalist, Writer & Branding Advisor 🌐 https://www.marcociappelli.com 🌐 https://www.itspmagazine.com GUEST Daniel Bardenstein, CEO and Co-Founder of Manifest Cyber https://www.linkedin.com/in/bardenstein RESOURCES Manifest Cyber: https://www.manifestcyber.com Are you interested in telling your story? ▶︎ Full Length Brand Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#full ▶︎ Brand Spotlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#spotlight ▶︎ Brand Highlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#highlight KEYWORDS Manifest Cyber, software supply chain security, SBOM, Log4Shell, open source vulnerability, technology transparency, Daniel Bardenstein, CISA, software composition analysis, third party risk, EU Cyber Resilience Act, AppSec Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    7 min
  • New Book! Lost in Time — Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge | Forgotten Technology, Ancient Wisdom & Digital Amnesia | An Interview with Jack R. Bialik | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli

    New Book! Lost in Time — Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge | Forgotten Technology, Ancient Wisdom & Digital Amnesia | An Interview with Jack R. Bialik | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
    Feb 23 2026
    New Book: Lost in Time — Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge | An Interview with Jack R. Bialik | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli There's a particular arrogance embedded in how we talk about progress. We speak about innovation as if it moves in one direction only — forward, upward, smarter, faster. But what if the line isn't straight? What if it loops, doubles back, and occasionally vanishes entirely? That's the uncomfortable question at the center of my conversation with Jack R. Bialik. His book Lost in Time: Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge doesn't read like a history lesson. It reads like a case file — evidence, example by example, that the civilization we assume is the most advanced in human history is also, in some critical ways, deeply amnesiac. Take cataract surgery. We learned it in the 1700s, right? Except we didn't. Indians were performing it in 800 BC. The ancient Egyptians and Babylonians had diagrams of the procedure dating back to 2,400 BCE. The knowledge existed, worked, and then — somewhere in the chaos of collapsing empires and burning libraries — it vanished. We didn't progress past it. We forgot it, and then reinvented it from scratch, centuries later, convinced we were doing something new. Or the Baghdad Battery: clay pots, 2,000 years old, that when filled with acid can generate 1.1 volts of electricity. We don't know what they used them for. We don't know who figured it out. We just know it worked, it existed, and then it didn't anymore. This is what Bialik calls the pattern of loss — and it's not random. It follows catastrophe: the Library of Alexandria, the systematic destruction of Mayan records, the slow erosion of oral traditions as writing systems took over. Knowledge disappears when the systems that carry it collapse. And here's where the conversation gets uncomfortably relevant: we are building those systems right now, and we are not thinking about how long they'll last. The curator at the Computer History Museum told Bialik that to preserve the data from early IBM PCs and Macintosh computers, they had to print it on paper. The floppy drives had become brittle. The formats were unreadable. The digital archive was failing — and the only solution was to go analog. A vinyl record from the 1920s still plays. A CD from the 1980s may not survive another decade. I've been thinking about this since we recorded. My brain is analog — that's not just a podcast title, it's a philosophy. I grew up in Florence, surrounded by things that had survived centuries because they were made to last: stone, fresco, manuscript. Then I jumped on the digital train like everyone else, seduced by infinite libraries on my phone, music on demand, knowledge at my fingertips. But what Bialik is pointing out is that fingertips are fragile. And so are hard drives. The deeper issue isn't storage format. It's the distinction Bialik draws between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is the data — the cataract surgery technique, the battery design, the pyramid engineering. Wisdom is knowing why it matters, when to use it, and what the consequences might be. We've gotten extraordinarily good at accumulating knowledge. We are considerably worse at transmitting wisdom. And wisdom, Bialik argues, doesn't live in databases. It lives in the space between people — in stories, in teaching, in the slow transmission of judgment across generations. That's why oral tradition survived when everything else failed. Not because it was more sophisticated, but because it was more human. It didn't require a device to run on. I don't know how to solve the digital longevity problem. Neither does Bialik — not yet. But I think the first step is admitting we have one. That's actually one of the quietest, most powerful arguments in the book: be humble. We don't know everything. We never did. And some of the things we've lost might be exactly what we need right now. The question isn't just what we've forgotten. It's what we're forgetting today, while we're too busy scrolling to notice. Grab Lost in Time: Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge — link below — and spend some time with a perspective that goes very, very far back. Which is maybe the only way to see very, very far forward. And if this kind of conversation is what you come here for, subscribe to the newsletter at marcociappelli.com. More of this. Less noise. — Marco Ciappelli Co-Founder ITSPmagazine & Studio C60 | Creative Director | Branding & Marketing Advisor | Personal Branding Coach | Journalist | Writer | Podcast: An Analog Brain In A Digital Age ⚠️ Beware: Pigs May Fly | 🌎 LAX🛸FLR 🌍 ____________ About Marco Marco Ciappelli is Co-Founder & CMO of ITSPmagazine, Co-Founder & Creative Director of Studio C60, Branding & Marketing Advisor, Personal Branding Coach, Journalist, Writer, and Host of An Analog Brain In A Digital Age podcast. Born in Florence, Italy, and based in Los Angeles, he explores the ...
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    34 min
  • The Autonomous SOC Is No Longer a Dream | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Subo Guha, Senior Vice President of Product Management of Stellar Cyber

    The Autonomous SOC Is No Longer a Dream | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Subo Guha, Senior Vice President of Product Management of Stellar Cyber
    Feb 22 2026

    What does it take to turn the dream of an autonomous SOC into something organizations can actually deploy? Subo Guha, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Stellar Cyber, joins Sean Martin to share how the company's AI-driven security operations platform is making that vision a reality. Stellar Cyber serves SOC teams across more than 50 countries, with a primary focus on MSPs and MSSPs supporting the underserved mid-market, though marquee enterprise customers like Canon are also part of the portfolio.

    How can agentic AI change the way SOC teams handle alert overload? Guha describes what he calls a "digital army" of AI agents that work around the clock to automate alert triage and catch phishing attacks. The system filters 70 to 80 percent of incoming alerts, allowing analysts to focus on the 20 percent that matter most. With attackers using AI to launch faster and more frequent campaigns, Stellar Cyber takes a human-augmented approach, meaning the AI learns from analyst interactions and continuously guides the SOC team toward faster, more accurate remediation.

    Why does this matter for MSPs operating on thin margins? Guha explains that the autonomous SOC capability layered on top of Stellar Cyber's XDR platform allows MSSPs to serve more customers, reduce mean time to repair, and grow their tenant base without proportionally increasing staff. When MSSPs grow revenue, Stellar Cyber grows alongside them, creating a mutually beneficial model that ultimately means more organizations get protected.

    This is a Brand Highlight. A Brand Highlight is a ~5 minute introductory conversation designed to put a spotlight on the guest and their company. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/creation#highlight

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    Subo Guha, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Stellar Cyber @LinkedIn

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    Learn more about Stellar Cyber: https://stellarcyber.ai

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    Subo Guha, Stellar Cyber, Sean Martin, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, brand highlight, autonomous SOC, agentic AI, security operations, XDR, NDR, MSSP, MSP, alert triage, AI-driven security, Open XDR, Gartner Magic Quadrant, phishing detection, SOC automation


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    8 min
  • The Operations Layer for Live Events | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Ben Ikwuagwu, CEO & Co-Founder of Soundcheck Live

    The Operations Layer for Live Events | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Ben Ikwuagwu, CEO & Co-Founder of Soundcheck Live
    Feb 19 2026

    Ben Ikwuagwu is a vocalist, performer, and entrepreneur who has spent over 15 years navigating the live events world. That firsthand experience, combined with a degree in operations and years working in corporate America, gives him a unique vantage point on what makes the industry run and where it breaks down. Now, as CEO & Co-Founder of Soundcheck Live, he is channeling both worlds into a single platform designed to simplify how live event professionals manage their work.

    What does an all-in-one operations platform for live events actually do? Soundcheck Live focuses on four core pillars: booking, scheduling, payments, and coordination. Ikwuagwu explains that every event, regardless of size, comes down to these four elements. The platform provides a centralized dashboard where teams can manage gig details, client communication, and payment information without juggling spreadsheets, text threads, and scattered documents.

    How is Soundcheck Live building differently? From day one, the team has built the product around its users. Pilots with bands, production companies, and venues shaped the tool from the ground up. With advances in AI, the feedback loop has accelerated dramatically. Focus group insights that once took weeks to implement now translate into working features in hours, giving users the feeling that the platform is being custom-built for their specific workflows.

    This is a Brand Highlight. A Brand Highlight is a ~5 minute introductory conversation designed to put a spotlight on the guest and their company. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/creation#highlight

    GUEST

    Ben Ikwuagwu, CEO & Co-Founder of Soundcheck Live

    On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminikwuagwu/

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    Soundcheck Live (Website): https://soundchecklive.io/

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    Ben Ikwuagwu, Soundcheck Live, Sean Martin, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, brand highlight, live events, gig management, event operations, live music, booking platform, freelancer tools, event technology, live entertainment, artist management, talent agencies


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    8 min
  • White Knight Labs: Still 2015 — How Old Vulnerabilities and Vibe Coding Are Breaking the Future | A Brand Story Podcast John Stigerwalt Founder at White Knight Labs | Red Team Operations Leader

    White Knight Labs: Still 2015 — How Old Vulnerabilities and Vibe Coding Are Breaking the Future | A Brand Story Podcast John Stigerwalt Founder at White Knight Labs | Red Team Operations Leader
    Feb 19 2026
    There's a particular kind of clarity you get when you talk to someone who spends their days breaking into things for a living. Not with malice — with purpose. John Steigerwald, known to most in the industry simply as "Stigs," co-founded White Knight Labs in 2016 with a mission that sounds almost disarmingly simple: build the best penetration testing team anyone has ever seen, and actually deliver results. Nearly a decade later, the company has grown to 40 people, gone international, and is busier than ever. The question worth asking is: why?The uncomfortable answer, according to Stigs, is that the fundamental problems haven't changed. At all."Honestly, it's still 2015," he said during our most recent conversation on ITSPmagazine's Brand Story series. Not as a metaphor. As a diagnosis. The same misconfigurations, the same weak identity policies, the same unlocked back doors that red teamers were exploiting a decade ago are still wide open today. The apps built in a COVID-era frenzy — pushed out fast, tested never — are now running critical business infrastructure. And the organizations using them are only finding out when something breaks.What's changed is the surface area. Cloud, AI, Microsoft 365, vibe-coded production apps — each new layer of technology gets adopted at speed, and each one arrives carrying the same original sin: no one turned on the basics. Stigs used Microsoft 365 as a pointed example. Millions of businesses are running on it with DMARC turned off, default configurations untouched, Copilot layered on top, and not a single CIS Benchmark policy applied. "Every client is vulnerable," he said. "Not just 10% of clients. Every client."That's a striking statement. It's also, if you've been paying attention to breach headlines, not a surprising one.The AI angle adds a new and almost darkly comedic wrinkle. Vibe coding — the practice of using AI tools like Cursor or Claude to generate production-ready code at speed — has given entry-level developers intermediate-level output. Which sounds great, until you realize that the AI models many of them leaned on were trained on outdated, sometimes vulnerable data. Stigs described visiting multiple clients with nearly identical security weaknesses, all tracing back to the same ChatGPT-generated setup instructions. "You and your neighbor did the same thing," he told one client. That's not just a funny anecdote. It's a warning about what happens when an entire industry bootstraps its infrastructure from the same flawed source.And yet, Stigs isn't anti-AI. He uses it every day. He just sees it with the clarity of someone who also finds the holes it leaves behind. His prediction for the near future: a massive wave of secure code review requests, as companies start reckoning with the vibe-coded backlog they've been quietly accumulating. AppSec is about to have a very good year.Looking forward, White Knight Labs is watching the growing intersection of private sector expertise and government infrastructure testing with particular interest. Critical infrastructure in America, long overdue for rigorous physical and embedded testing, is starting to receive that attention. Stigs and his team are already in the room.What makes White Knight Labs different isn't just technical skill — it's the ability to communicate what they find in language that actually lands. In an industry full of reports that gather dust, that matters. The best penetration test in the world is useless if no one acts on it.The door is open. It's been open for years. The question is who you call to finally lock it.To learn more about White Knight Labs, visit their website or reach out directly. Listen to the full conversation on ITSPmagazine.GUESTJohn StigerwaltFounder at White Knight Labs | Red Team Operations Leaderhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/john-stigerwalt-90a9b4110/RESOURCESWhite Knight Labs: https://whiteknightlabs.com_____________________________________________________________Are you interested in telling your story?▶︎ Full Length Brand Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#full▶︎ Brand Spotlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#spotlight▶︎ Brand Highlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#highlight Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    37 min
  • The New Identity Risk AI Agents Bring to the Enterprise | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Ido Shlomo, Co-Founder & CTO of Token Security

    The New Identity Risk AI Agents Bring to the Enterprise | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Ido Shlomo, Co-Founder & CTO of Token Security
    Feb 19 2026

    What happens when AI agents inherit access to enterprise systems but nobody governs their identities? Ido Shlomo, Co-Founder and CTO of Token Security, joins the conversation to unpack a rapidly growing challenge that many organizations face but few have addressed. As businesses accelerate AI adoption, agents are being deployed to fetch data from CRMs, process emails, and execute actions across platforms. The problem is that these agents often operate with persistent access, no clear ownership, and little visibility into what they can reach.

    How should security teams approach AI agent identity governance? Shlomo explains that the first step is discovery. Most companies do not know what their AI agent inventory looks like, and without that baseline, effective governance is impossible. The good news, he notes, is that agents do not suffer from politics. They do exactly what they are told and operate within the boundaries they are given. That predictability makes the challenge more manageable if the right tooling is in place.

    What makes an effective access policy for AI agents? Rather than relying on prompt filtering or output controls that add latency and friction, Shlomo advocates for intent-based permission models that scope each agent to access only what it needs, when it needs it. He frames the prioritization process as a matrix of access and autonomy, where the agents with the highest levels of both deserve immediate attention. For business leaders, the visibility that comes from this approach also reveals waste and inefficiency, highlighting departments and services that are not delivering on their intended value. To learn more about how to identify, govern, and secure AI agent identities, connect with the Token Security team and follow Ido Shlomo for practical guidance.

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    GUEST

    Ido Shlomo, Co-Founder & CTO of Token Security
    On LinkedIn: https://il.linkedin.com/in/ido--shlomo

    RESOURCES

    Token Security (Website): https://www.token.security/

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    KEYWORDS

    Ido Shlomo, Token Security, Sean Martin, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, brand highlight, AI agent identity, non-human identity, identity governance, AI agent security, identity risk, least privilege, AI agent access, machine identity, NHI security, AI agent inventory, intent-based access


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    7 min