SHI’s Research Breakdown
SHI’s Research Breakdown
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SHI’s Research Breakdown is your audio companion to SHI’s Research Roundup newsletter, offering sharp, focused conversations that take you beyond the headlines. Each episode dives deep into a single research topic from the newsletter, unpacking key insights, implications, and unanswered questions with subject matter experts from across the tech industry.
Whether it’s AI, cybersecurity, cloud strategy, or IT asset management, we break down the research so IT leaders, decision-makers, and curious minds can understand what it really means for their business and why it matters now. In about 15 minutes, you’ll be better equipped to lead in a rapidly evolving digital world.
Follow SHI’s Research Breakdown for a dose of clarity, context, and expert commentary—because the tech trends shaping tomorrow deserve more than a headline.
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The podcast delves into themes such as AI, cybersecurity, cloud strategy, and IT asset management, with episodes like the unpacking of Flexera’s 2025 State of ITAM Report highlighting issues like audit costs and software sprawl, offering key insights relevant to IT leaders and decision-makers.
SHI’s Research Breakdown is your audio companion to SHI’s Research Roundup newsletter, offering sharp, focused conversations that take you beyond the headlines. Each episode dives deep into a single research topic from the newsletter, unpacking key insights, implications, and unanswered questions with subject matter experts from across the tech industry.
Whether it’s AI, cybersecurity, cloud strategy, or IT asset management, we break down the research so IT leaders, decision-makers, and curious minds can understand what it really means for their business and why it matters now. In about 15 minutes, you’ll be better equipped to lead in a rapidly evolving digital world.
Follow SHI’s Research Breakdown for a dose of clarity, context, and expert commentary—because the tech trends shaping tomorrow deserve more than a headline.
In this episode of SHI’s Research Breakdown, host Victoria Barber and SHI Field CISO Brad Bowers sit down with David Dellapelle, CEO of Dune Security, to unpack how social engineering has evolved faster than awareness training can keep up.
Drawing on insights from Dune’s Inside Access research report titled CISOs on the Emerging Threats Redefining User Cyber Risk, the conversation explores how AI is supercharging phishing, how multi-channel “hybrid” attacks are reshaping the threat landscape, and why most organizations still can’t see what’s happening across encrypted or informal apps like Slack, Teams, and WhatsApp.
They also dig into the cultural blind spots keeping CISOs from tackling these risks, the rise of insider threats and nation-state job applicants, and the importance of collaboration among cybersecurity leaders to outpace increasingly organized and professionalized adversaries.
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Discussed in this episode:
- AI-driven phishing that’s three times more effective than traditional campaigns
- Hybrid social engineering attacks spanning email, chat, video, and voice
- Why encrypted channels remain a major blind spot for CISOs
- Adaptive training and user risk scoring as smarter defense models
- The growing insider threat from remote and nation-state actors
- How cybercriminals collaborate, and why defenders must do the same
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