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Threat Vector | Securing the Modern Workforce: Lessons from Medallia's CISO

In this episode of Threat Vector, host David Moulton, Senior Director of Thought Leadership at Unit 42, speaks with Jiphun Satapathy, SVP and CISO of Medallia. They discuss how security and user experience must coexist in today’s hybrid and AI-driven workplace. Satapathy explains how Medallia secures its global workforce, manages SaaS adoption, ...

Threat Vector | Hacker Movies Then vs Now

In this episode of Threat Vector, We dive into a nostalgic yet revealing journey through classic hacker films, from WarGames to The Net and beyond, to assess what they got right, what they wildly imagined, and what those stories say about culture, fears, and cyber reality today. David Moulton, Senior Director of Thought Leadership for Unit 42 t...

Threat Vector | Inside Jingle Thief Cloud Fraud Unwrapped

In this episode of Threat Vector, host David Moulton, Senior Director of Thought Leadership for Unit 42, sits down with Stav Setty, Principal Researcher at Palo Alto Networks, to unpack Jingle Thief a cloud-only, identity-driven campaign that turned Microsoft 365 into a gift card printing press. Stav explains how the Morocco based group known as...

Threat Vector | Why Proactive Security Can't Wait

In this episode of Threat Vector, host David Moulton, Senior Director of Thought Leadership for Unit 42, speaks with Elad Koren, Vice President of Product Management for Cortex Cloud at Palo Alto Networks. With the 2025 Unit 42 Incident Response Report showing that adversaries can move from initial compromise to data theft in less than five hour...

Threat Vector | Securing the AI Frontier

AI adoption is outpacing every major tech wave of the past two decades, reshaping the digital enterprise faster than most security leaders expected. In this episode of Threat Vector, Meerah Rajavel, Chief Information Officer at Palo Alto Networks, joins David Moulton to talk about how CIOs can successfully lead AI transformation while securing n...

Threat Vector | The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly in AI

On this episode of Threat Vector, host David Moulton sits down with Andy Piazza, Senior Director of Threat Intelligence at Unit 42, to unpack the good, the bad, and the ugly of AI in security. We explore how AI is accelerating detection and response, where it’s already saving thousands of analyst hours, and why human-in-the-loop still matters. W...

Threat Vector | Shifting Security Left

In this episode of Threat Vector, David Moulton speaks with two cybersecurity leaders from Palo Alto Networks: Sarit Tager, Vice President of Product Management, and Krithivasan Mecheri (Krithi), Senior Director of Product Security. Together, they dive into the urgent challenges of securing modern development in the age of AI. The discussion exp...

Threat Vector | Don't Leave Them to Their Own Devices

In this episode of Threat Vector, host David Moulton speaks with Asher Davila, Principal Security Researcher at Palo Alto Networks, about the newly released 2025 Device Security Enterprise Threat Report. This data-rich report reveals that over 21% of connected enterprise devices have known vulnerabilities, and nearly 40% of devices registered in...

Threat Vector | Securing Pre-K-12: A Tech Leader's Perspective

In this episode of Threat Vector, David Moulton sits down with Mohammed Saleh, Associate Chief Technology and Management Information Systems Officer at Paterson Public Schools. They explore how school districts can balance cybersecurity, accessibility, and affordability while navigating the evolving threat landscape in K-12 education. Mohammed s...

Threat Vector | Securing Modern Workforce

Hybrid work has changed the game, but has your security kept up? In this episode of Threat Vector, David Moulton sits down with Harish Singh, Vice President and Global Head of Infrastructure and Application Management at Wipro, to unpack the evolving cybersecurity landscape at the intersection of digital transformation, SaaS expansion, and AI-po...

Threat Vector | The High Cost of Chasing Compliance, Not Security

In this episode, host David Moulton speaks with Joey Smith, Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer at Schnuck Markets. Joey brings experience from leading incident response and forensics at MasterCard to spearheading risk-based security and cloud transformation in retail. Together we explore how today’s CISOs rethink risk, measu...

Threat Vector | What Happened to Hacker Culture?

Join David Moulton, Senior Director of Thought Leadership for Unit 42, as he sits down with Kyle Wilhoit,Technical Director of Threat Research at Unit 42, for an intimate conversation about the evolution of hacker culture and cybersecurity. From picking up 2600: The Hacker Quarterly magazines at Barnes & Noble and building beige boxes to lea...

Threat Vector | Human in the Loop for AI Security

Discover how to secure generative AI beyond the model itself in this episode of Threat Vector. Host David Moulton welcomes Bret Kinsella, GM of Fuel iX and founder of Voicebot.ai and Synthedia. Bret brings deep expertise in enterprise AI and synthetic media. He explores the hidden dangers of shadow AI, where employees use consumer AI tools with ...

Threat Vector | Inside AI Runtime Defense

In this episode of Threat Vector, host David Moulton, Director of Thought Leadership for Unit 42, speaks with Spencer Thellmann, Principal Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks. Spencer brings a background in AI policy from the University of Cambridge and now leads development of real-time AI runtime security solutions. Together, they explore th...

Threat Vector | Securing the Future of AI Agents

AI agents are no longer a distant future concept. They have arrived, and the pace of their deployment is accelerating rapidly. In this episode of Threat Vector, David Moulton speaks with Nicole Nichols, Distinguished Engineer for Machine Learning Security at Palo Alto Networks. Nicole breaks down her new paper, Achieving a Secure AI Agent Ecosys...