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Unspoken Security is a raw and gritty podcast for security professionals who are looking to understand the most important issues related to making the world a safer place, including intelligence-driven security, risks and threats in the digital and physical world, and discussions related to corporate culture, leadership, and how world events impact all of us on and off our keyboards. In each episode, host AJ Nash engages with a range of industry experts to dissect current trends, share practical insights, and address the blunt truths surrounding all aspects of the security industry.

Recent Episodes

How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Offensive Security

In this episode of Unspoken Security, host AJ Nash sits down with Snehal Antani, co-founder and CEO of Horizon3.ai and former first CTO of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), to dissect what AI is really doing to the economics of cyber attacks - and cyber defense. Snehal opens with a jaw-dropping data point: his team compromised a defense industrial base supplier and achieved full domain admin in 77 seconds. From there, the conversation moves into the surprising counter-strategy his team...

53 MIN

How Do We Know What’s Real in the Age of AI?

AJ Nash sat down with Shai Gabay, co-founder and CEO of Trustmi, to talk about financial fraud in the age of AI. Gabay opened with the size of the problem: global fraud losses hit $450 billion last year. He explained why business-to-business payment fraud keeps growing. Attackers do not invent new relationships. They study the ones a company already has, then step into an existing conversation between a business and its vendor. Most of that conversation happens over email, and most companies ...

42 MIN

Should We Be Afraid of Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

In this episode of Unspoken Security, host AJ Nash sits down with Heath Mullins, Chief Evangelist at ExtraHop and former senior analyst at Forrester. The two dig into the question everyone in tech keeps circling back to right now: should we be afraid of AI? Mullins argues that today's AI is best understood as a recalcitrant four-year-old handed the keys to everything, powerful, unpredictable, and rewriting itself faster than anyone can fully audit. AJ and Heath trace that unpredictability thr...

50 MIN

Why Are We Trusting AI with Intelligence?

In this episode of Unspoken Security, AJ Nash and Faith MacGregor tackle the private sector's sloppy relationship with the word "intelligence" — the gap between raw data, contextual information, and verified, actionable intelligence — and how vendors, circular reporting, and fragmented disciplines like "cyber threat intelligence" have eroded that discipline. From there they turn to AI, weighing real utility against real danger: hallucinations that persist even with vetted sources, analysts pu...

51 MIN

Is All Social Engineering Malicious?

Social engineering has a reputation problem. Most people hear the term and think phishing, scams, and threat actors. AJ Nash and guest Ashley Stryker push back on that framing in this episode of Unspoken Security. The conversation opens by defining social engineering on its own terms: the act of understanding how people work and using that knowledge to get them to take a specific action. The technique itself is neutral. What determines whether it crosses a line is motive and outcome. From the...

65 MIN