ClearTech Loop: In the Know, On the Move
ClearTech Loop: In the Know, On the Move
Podcast Description
ClearTech Loop is a fast, focused podcast delivering sharp, soundbite-ready insights on what’s next in cybersecurity, cloud, and AI. Hosted by Jo Peterson, Chief Analyst at ClearTech Research, each 10-minute episode explores today’s most pressing tech and risk issues through a business-focused lens. Whether it’s CISOs rethinking cyber strategy or AI reshaping risk governance, ClearTech Loop brings clarity to a shifting landscape—built for tech leaders who don’t have time for fluff. We cut through hype. We rethink assumptions. We keep you in the loop.
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Content Themes
The podcast addresses key topics in contemporary tech and risk management, including cybersecurity innovations, cloud strategy, and AI governance. Notable episodes cover themes like positioning security as an innovation partner in 'Security as an Enabler' and quantifying cyber risk in 'CISO Playbook,' emphasizing practical strategies for engaging executive boards and effective governance.
Season 2 of ClearTech Loop is built around three questions:
How is AI changing the way organizations think about risk?
What does stronger cybersecurity leadership look like right now?
How should leaders rethink cloud strategy as business and technology keep shifting?
Hosted by Jo Peterson, Chief Analyst at ClearTech Research, ClearTech Loop is a fast, focused podcast covering AI, cybersecurity, and cloud risk through a business leadership lens.
Each 10-15 minute episode explores the issues shaping modern technology strategy and the decisions leaders cannot afford to ignore.
From governance and resilience to infrastructure change and emerging risk, ClearTech Loop helps leaders make sense of what is shifting, what matters most, and what comes next.
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 conversation. His take is practical: organizations probably cannot put AI back in the bottle, so they need to educate users, provide approved tools, bring agents into identity governance, and start treating AI governance like a real security discipline.
What You’ll Hear in This Episode
Jo and Gerald discuss:
- Why shadow AI is a problem for IT, security, and the organization
- How AI is becoming easier to use inside everyday SaaS tools
- Why sensitive data in public AI tools creates a visibility gap
- Why user education has to be part of AI security
- How non human identities and AI agents create new permissioning risks
- Why Gerald thinks organizations may need a “manager in the loop”
- What AI defense means when AI systems can act quickly and at scale
Key Insight
AI governance is becoming its own discipline.
Gerald’s point is not that organizations can stop AI adoption. It is that they need to build around it with education, approved tools, segmented environments, identity controls, better detection, and practical guardrails before “just let it run” becomes the strategy. Which, respectfully, is not a strategy. It is a group project with consequences.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction to Gerald Auger
00:30 Gerald’s background in cybersecurity, education, and Simply Cyber
01:38 Shadow AI as an IT, security, and organizational issue
03:00 Why public AI tools create data visibility risk
04:40 Why organizations have to “ride the lightning”
06:46 Jo on the missing layer of AI security training
07:13 AI inside everyday tools and emerging attacker behavior
08:58 Non human identities and over-permissioned agents
12:30 AI Wrangler or Manager in the Loop?
13:12 What AI defense means in practice
15:46 AI Gone Wild and closing thoughts
Guest Bio
Gerald Auger, PhD, is Chief Content Creator of Simply Cyber. He is a cybersecurity educator, GRC practitioner, community builder, and creator of the Simply Cyber Daily Cyber Threat Brief.
He has a PhD in Cyber Operations from Dakota State University and teaches cybersecurity at The Citadel. Through Simply Cyber, Gerald helps cybersecurity professionals build careers through practical education, daily threat briefings, and practitioner-first community content.
Resources
- Simply Cyber Academy: The Definitive GRC Analyst Program https://academy.simplycyber.io/p/the-definitive-grc-analyst-program
- Flashlight in a Dark Room: A Grounded Theory Study on Information Security Management at Small Healthcare Provider Organizations by Gerald Auger
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