Security Posture at Machine Speed With Barracuda
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Security Posture at Machine Speed With Barracuda

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 28, 202623 min
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What happens when attackers can discover and exploit a weakness faster than your organization can patch it? Recorded at Barracuda TechSummit 2026 in Alpbach, Austria, this conversation features Arve Kjoelen, CISO at Barracuda. Arve is responsible for protecting Barracuda's systems, environment, and code, which makes him the person answering the familiar question of who checks the checker. Our conversation begins with the collapse in response time. Security teams once had hours or days to investigate suspicious activity. Arve explains why they may now have minutes or seconds, while vulnerabilities can move from disclosure to exploitation within...

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But now, let me introduce you to today's guest. What happens when attackers, defenders and employees all begin operating at machine speed? Well, reporting from Barracuda Tech Summit's 20th anniversary in Outback, Austria this week. I've spoke with Rohit Guy, Neil Bradbury, Adam Khan, and today I've got the CISO joining us,

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and we're going to talk about the security problems that are hiding behind the AI headlines that we see in our news feeds. We've already discussed shadow AI, agentic security operations, identity sprawl, managed XDR, model sovereignty, and why human judgment still matters when automated decisions arrive in seconds. And against one of the most spectacular conference

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backdrops I've ever seen, these conversations revealed what businesses must protect, what they can automate and where people can remain firmly in control. But we've got one more conversation to go before I fly home. So let me officially introduce you to my final guest here at the Tech Summit. So a massive thank you for joining me on

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