Information Security podcasts

Spencer McIntyre of VulnCheck joins Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson to discuss AI-assisted vulnerability research and exploit development. The episode examines why many proof-of-concept exploits are unreliable, how initial-access intelligence helps security teams prioritise threats, and where agents can assist research. The conversation also considers the limitations of automated exploitation, the effects of AI guardrails on legitimate security work, and implications for threat intelligence.

Hosted by Daniel Whitenack, Chris Benson

Nick Kuhn joins Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson to discuss deploying AI agents alongside conventional enterprise applications. Topics include agent build packs, MCP gateways, shared memory, identity, sandboxing and lessons from platform engineering.

Hosted by Daniel Whitenack, Chris Benson

Charles Frye of Modal examines the infrastructure constraints behind large-scale AI research. With Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush, he discusses underused hardware, saturated resources, sharing GPU capacity and deciding when to train a model. The conversation also covers inference and speculative decoding, hardware economics, virtualization and the security boundaries around agents and open models. Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush. Watch the full conversation on the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv, Allen Roush

EleutherAI executive director Stella Biderman discusses open models, independent research and the containment of potentially dangerous AI capabilities. She argues for stronger isolation in security evaluations and examines the influence of corporate power on scientific evidence. Other topics include sovereign AI, international access to open models, the role of interfaces in perceived progress, and filtering hazardous knowledge during pretraining. Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush. Watch the full conversation on the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv, Allen Roush

Chris Benson and Daniel Whitenack examine a reported security incident involving OpenAI agents and Hugging Face. They reconstruct the episode's account of what happened and discuss what it suggests about sandboxing, network access and the controls needed when AI systems can execute actions.

Hosted by Chris Benson, Daniel Whitenack

Devvret Rishi discusses how agents with access to tools and external systems change the security requirements of generative AI applications. He examines the limitations of static controls and the need for runtime policies, observability and recovery mechanisms as agent workflows become more capable.

Hosted by Sam Charrington