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02/27/2026

As Anthony Johnson puts it: That "advisory board" invite? You just became their cheapest marketing channel. 😐

They're renting your reputation and experience for free.

Real advisory roles come with defined monthly retainers and meaningful equity compensation. If a company won't discuss either, you're not joining a board. You're becoming an unpaid billboard.

Watch the full conversation on what real advisory agreements should look like. Link in comments. 👇

02/26/2026

If AI does every junior task, your senior pipeline is already dead. 💀

Every senior expert started as a junior doing the work nobody wanted. That's where real expertise is built. Remove the reps, you don't get leaders, you get people overseeing work they've never done.

Full episode with Anthony Johnson just dropped. Link in comments.

02/20/2026

We rebuilt the entire internet with the same security holes we spent decades trying to fix. 🌐🩹

Prompt injection is SQL injection for the modern stack. The same vulnerabilities we spent decades fixing are back. AI apps are already leaking sensitive data from mailboxes and repositories, and security controls for AI agents barely exist yet.

Watch the full conversation with Rajan Kapoor, VP of Security at Material Security. Link in comments.

02/19/2026

Your email retention policy is quietly building your next data breach.

When employees know emails will be auto-deleted, they move that data somewhere else 🤫. Outside your company. Outside your controls. The policy you built for legal protection may be creating shadow data across your environment.

Watch the full conversation with Rajan Kapoor, VP of Security at Material Security. Link in comments.

02/13/2026

There's a lot of hype around AI right now. 🔥

Sonali Shah, CEO at Cobalt, joins us on the pod this week to talk about Cobalt's offensive security platform and how it combines the best of AI and automation.

If you missed our livestream with Sonali, make sure you check out our episode out now wherever you get your podcasts.

02/12/2026

"Just because you're secure today, doesn't mean you're secure tomorrow." - Shah, CEO at Cobalt. 🔒

Right now organizations are facing endless tasks that have only been amplified by AI-enabled adversaries.

If your strategy is built around passing audits instead of surviving real attacks, you’re already behind. Remember, compliance is the baseline, not the finish line.

Catch our full episode with Sonali out now on your favorite podcast platform! 🎙️

02/11/2026

Browser OS brings its own agent into the mix, turning tasks into agent to agent conversations.

That’s a big change in how security teams think about control, automation, and exposure.

Check out the full episode with Amini on your favorite podcast platform! 🎙️

02/10/2026

MCP has two real problems, speed and context. 🏃‍♂️📖

When the context window fills up, performance drops fast.

As Pedram Amini shares in today's episode, "Once you’re up to 60% to 80% context consumed, sessions will starts to have problems."

Fresh context is the difference between agents that work in theory and agents that work in practice.

Don't miss today's episode out NOW wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧

02/06/2026

AI won’t fix everything in the SOC, but it can make the day a lot quieter. 🤖

Instead of getting hit with ten alerts for the same issue, AI can correlate the chaos into one clear signal, and the rest comes down to testing and comparison.

Don't miss our full episode with Yaamini Barathi Mohan out NOW on your favorite podcast platform! 🎙️

02/05/2026

You can't outpace every threat, especially when attackers are using AI too. 👀

The smarter move is building security that assumes breaches will happen. Zero Trust gives security teams a framework to respond when new threats show up daily, not someday.

Yaamini Barathi Mohan joins us on Hacker Valley Studio to remind us why mindset matters more than chasing alerts.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! 🎧

02/03/2026

How much time do we waste just trying to schedule a call? ⏰

In last year's episode with Pedram, we talked about a future where avatars handle emails, texts, and scheduling for us, only pulling in the human when something actually matters.

Fast forward, and this idea feels even closer now.

Perfect timing, because Pedram is back on the Hacker Valley podcast this week!

Keep an eye out for the episode drop, coming soon. 👀

01/30/2026

MFA used to be enough, but that’s no longer true. 🔐

Modern attacks are engineered to bypass MFA and SSO entirely, yet many organizations still treat them as a silver bullet.

Don't miss the full conversation with Yaamini Barahi Mohan in this week's episode!

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