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AI agents are moving across systems, making decisions and, in some cases, creating other agents. But enterprises still do not have consistent standards for identifying them, governing their permissions or tracing what they do.

In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with Rob Tiffany, Research Director at IDC, about why traditional identity and access management may not be enough for the agentic AI era.

Rob argues that th...

AI agents are already operating inside enterprises, accessing systems, making decisions and, in some cases, creating other agents.

The problem? Many organizations still cannot answer some very basic questions: What agents are running? Who owns them? What can they access? And who is accountable for what they do?

In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with Michael Krigsman, founder and host of CXOTalk, about what AI secur...

AI agents are gaining credentials, permissions and the ability to act across enterprise systems. But what happens when they discover years of forgotten files, excessive permissions and data that was never secured with AI access in mind? 

In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with longtime technology analyst and Forbes contributor Joe McKendrick about the security implications of the agentic workforce. 

They d...

AI governance may exist on paper. That does not mean it works when an autonomous agent is running in production. 

Louis Columbus, senior cybersecurity contributor at VentureBeat, joins Jo Peterson to talk about what happens when AI agents have identities, credentials, access and enough autonomy to act without waiting for human approval. 

They get into the gap between governance and enforcement, why companies may have far mo...

Your AI agent has one job: accomplish the objective. 

It doesn’t care about your policies. It doesn’t worry about getting fired. And it may not stop when a human would. 

Joanna Wiggum calls it a narcissist. 

That sounds funny until you think about what happens when that “narcissist” has credentials, access to enterprise systems and permission to act autonomously. 

In this episode, Joanna join...

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Benny Czarny 
CEO, Founder & Chairman of the Board 
OPSWAT 

Host 

Jo Peterson 
CIO, Clarify360 
Chief Analyst, ClearTech Research 

AI agents have credentials. They access enterprise data. They make decisions. And increasingly, they can act without waiting for a human. 

So who actually owns the risk? 

Jo Peterson sits down with Benny Czarny, CEO, Founder & Chairm...

AI agents can hold credentials, access sensitive data, make decisions and even create other identities. But many organizations still cannot answer a basic question: what is actually running in the environment? 

In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with Alvaro Gonzalez, SVP of Product and Go-to-Market at Assured Data Protection, to talk about what AI governance looks like when identity and access are changing...

The conversation around AI is shifting from what agents can do to how enterprises actually govern and secure them. 

In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with cybersecurity professional Marcus Cylar to talk about least-privilege access for AI agents, shadow AI, security awareness and what CISOs should prioritize as agentic AI becomes part of the enterprise. 

Marcus challenges the idea that AI automaticall...

What if an AI agent had to earn—and keep—its access based on how it behaved? 

In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with Elliott Mattice, founder of Exprima, to examine trust as the missing operating layer between AI security and AI governance. 

Traditional controls can define an agent’s identity and permissions. Governance frameworks can establish policies and accountability. Elliott ar...

What happens when an AI agent takes an action no one authorized? 

The answer is not, “The model did it.” 

In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson sits down with cybersecurity and technology executive Billy Spears to unpack the gap between AI policy and actual AI control. 

They discuss: 

• Who is accountable when an AI agent makes an unauthorized decision 
• Why agents should never inherit broa...

AI agents are becoming part of the enterprise workforce, but many organizations still do not know where those agents are, what they can access, or what they are allowed to do. 

In this ClearTech Loop Special Edition sponsored by Okta, Jo Peterson speaks with Matthew Hansen, Regional Chief Security Officer and Head of Customer Audit at Okta, about the identity challenge behind agentic AI. 

They discuss Okta’s AI Bluepr...

AI governance is no longer just a policy conversation. As AI moves into business workflows, sanctioned platforms, employee tools, local models, agents, and third-party services, organizations need to understand where AI is being used, what it can access, who approved it, and who owns the outcome when something goes wrong. 

In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson speaks with Derek Fisher, founder of Securely Built, cybers...

In this ClearTech Loop Special Edition from AWS Summit New York, Jo Peterson speaks with Himanshu Verma, Worldwide Leader for Security, Identity, and Governance Specialists at AWS, about how agentic AI is changing the identity risk conversation. 

They discuss why AI agents need to be treated as non-human identities, how AWS Security Hub helps centralize identity risk management, and why multi-Region resilience matters for enter...

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Season 3 of ClearTech Loop kicks off with AI security architect Phil Stafford in a practical conversation about AI governance, agent permissions, fractional identity, and why MCP servers may be the next software supply chain risk hiding in plain sight. 

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AI agents are moving from interesting experiments into real business environments. That means they are not just answering questio...

AI is moving faster than policy, training, and many traditional controls were designed to handle. 

In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with Gerald Auger, Chief Content Creator of Simply Cyber, about shadow AI, non human identities, over-permissioned agents, and what AI defense means when AI systems can act at machine speed. 

Gerald brings the educator, GRC, and practitioner-community lens to the conversatio...

Your AI policy does not matter much if no one understands how to follow it. 

In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with Maybelyn Plecic, Manager of Training and Adoption at Network to Code, about shadow AI, non human identities, and what AI defense actually means when people are already using AI to get work done. 

Maybelyn brings a security, compliance, training, and adoption lens to the conversation. She is ...

AI security is not showing up as one clean problem. 

It is showing up across governance, risk, productivity, identity, API security, and defense. 

In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with seasoned CISO Patricia Titus, about shadow AI, non human identities, AI agents, APIs, and what AI defense means when organizations are trying to move quickly without losing control. Patricia brings more than 25 years of cy...

Cloud pricing can look simple until the bill arrives. 

In this ClearTech Loop Special Edition, Jo Peterson talks with Cristian Graziano, Principal Product Manager at Amazon Web Services, about AWS CloudFront flat rate plans and why predictable pricing matters for teams delivering internet facing applications. 

Cristian explains how CloudFront helps accelerate and secure applications, why customers often combine CDN, WAF, DD...

AI security is not only about policies, tools, and controls. It is also about education. 

In this episode of ClearTech Loop, Jo Peterson talks with James McQuiggan, founder and CISO of Apparent Security, about shadow AI, non human identities, and what AI defense means as organizations try to keep up with real world AI adoption. 

James brings the lens of an educator to the conversation. His perspective keeps coming back to h...