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PANCast™ Episode 57: Cortex Cloud Application Security

Episode Transcript: John: Hello and welcome back to PANCast™.Shafania Kouser is a Senior Technical Support Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, with years of experience in cybersecurity and the Prisma Cloud space. She is also an AWS Solutions Architect – Associate certified professional.certified professional.Today we have Shafania Kouser from the ...

Threat Vector | The Four Horsemen of Agentic Risk

Your AI agent just wiped an entire email inbox and said sorry. That's not a hypothetical. It already happened. Sailesh Mishra, Product Marketing at Palo Alto Networks and founder of SydeLabs (acquired by Protect AI), has spent years at the frontier of AI security, from scaling autonomous vehicle programs at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group t...

Threat Vector | Inside Ransomware Negotiations: Trust Criminals or Walk Away?

What happens when you're face-to-face with a ransomware gang demanding millions—and every decision could determine whether your company survives? Jeremy D. Brown, Consulting Director at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 with nearly seven years negotiating with cyber criminals, reveals the hidden world of ransomware negotiations. With hundreds of nego...

Threat Vector | Who Holds Power When AI Compresses Decision Time?

What if the choices we make about AI security today determine who holds power tomorrow? Erica L. Shoemate brings over a decade of experience from the FBI and U.S. Intelligence Community, followed by senior leadership roles at Twitter, Amazon, and Meta shaping AI policy, cyber strategy, and regulatory readiness. As founder of Lead with Intent S...

Threat Vector | Zero Trust Without the Hype

In this episode of Threat Vector, host David Moulton speaks with LeeAnne Pelzer, Senior Consulting Director, and Brandon Hogle, Consulting Director, both with Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. Together, they explore how organizations can move from Zero Trust theory to practice. Zero Trust is the foundation of modern cybersecurity, but turning principl...

Threat Vector | Unit 42's Iran Threat Brief: What We're Seeing

Unit 42 is tracking more than 60 active hacktivist groups and Iran-linked threat actors right now. What are they actually doing, what should you believe, and what should you do about it? In this episode of Threat Vector, David Moulton sits down with Justin Moore, Senior Manager of Threat Intelligence Research at Unit 42, and Andy Piazza, Senior ...

Threat Vector | The Billion Dollar Hiring Scam Funding North Korea

Evan Gordenker, Director of AI Security and DPRK Operations at Unit 42, has led more than 160 investigations into sophisticated threat actors, including the North Korean IT worker networks quietly embedded inside global companies. He joins David Moulton to unpack how this operation actually works, why common assumptions about remote work leave o...

PANCast™ Episode 56: ZTNA connector - new possibilities and opportunities to remain secure

Episode Transcript: John: Amit Srivastava is a Director for Campus and Cloud Networking for Palo Alto Network infrastructure. His team runs and manages PANW network infrastructure. He has been with Palo Alto Networks for three and a half years. Prior to this role, he ran the Prisma Access SRE team at PANW. He has been with the network and cyb...

Threat Vector | Inside 750 Breaches with Unit 42

Steve Elovitz leads Unit 42's North America consulting and incident response practice, where his team helps prevent, and ultimately answers the call when organizations face their worst day.After analyzing 750+ major breaches in a single year, he's seen exactly which security investments save companies and which ones fail when attackers strike. T...

Threat Vector | When Security Friction Becomes the Backdoor

In this episode of Threat Vector, host David Moulton explores a critical truth that most security leaders miss: the difference between friction that protects and friction that creates risk. Our guest this week is Birat Niraula. Birat leads security for Google Enterprise Network, where he oversees protection across on-premise, network infrastruct...

Threat Vector | Security Success Stories You Haven't Heard

In this episode of Threat Vector, host David Moulton sits down with Isaiah Telhado, Senior Cybersecurity Customer Success Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, to explore what cybersecurity success actually looks like. With over 25 years in IT and security leadership across Nestlé, Zscaler, and now Palo Alto Networks, Isaiah has seen firsthand what tr...

Threat Vector | Is Your AI Well-Engineered Enough To Be Trusted?

Can you trust your AI systems with your business, or are they just another attack surface waiting to be exploited? Aaron Isaksen leads AI Research and Engineering at Palo Alto Networks, where he advances state-of-the-art AI in cybersecurity while overseeing Cortex Xpanse's teams automating attack surface management across some of the world's l...

Threat Vector | The Kill Switch for AI Agents

Carey Frey, Chief Security Officer at TELUS, joins Threat Vector host David Moulton to tackle the most overlooked security challenge in the AI revolution: identity. With 20+ years protecting everything from Canada's Communication Security Establishment to one of North America's largest telecommunications companies, Carey brings hard-won wisdom a...

Threat Vector | Securing AI Without Slowing Business

In this milestone 100th episode of Threat Vector, David Moulton sits down with Nikesh Arora, Chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, for a candid conversation on the modern security landscape and what it takes to lead through sustained disruption. Nikesh shares why AI is not just another technology cycle, how security too often becomes an aftert...

Threat Vector | Securing the AI Supply Chain

AI security is no longer optional, it’s urgent. In this episode of Threat Vector, David Moulton sits down with Ian Swanson, former CEO of Protect AI and now the AI Security Leader at Palo Alto Networks. Ian shares how securing the AI supply chain has become the next frontier in cybersecurity and why every enterprise building or integrating AI ne...