Cybersecurity Perspectives
Cybersecurity Perspectives is a show for IT and cybersecurity professionals who want real talk, not talking points.
Every episode, a guest draws one of three cards, each one holding a real statistic pulled from an industry report or news outlet. Whatever card they pick becomes the topic. No pre-set questions, no rehearsed answers. Just an honest conversation about what that number actually means for their company, their team, and the industry at large, and what to do about it.
Hosted by Paul Marco and Owahn Bazydlo, co-founders of TALAS Security, the show brings together practitioners, leaders, and builders from across IT and cybersecurity to talk shop, share hard-won lessons, and build a stronger community for the people doing this work every day.
Stats. Insights. Real talk.
https://www.talas.io/podcast
Episodes
7 episodes
S1:E7 - 67% of users access AI services via non-corporate accounts on corporate devices
Shadow IT never went away, it just learned to speak in prompts. Lou Mazzucchelli joins Owahn Bazydlo and Paul Marco for a wide-ranging, historically grounded conversation about AI governance, corporate culture, data as an asset, and why the new...
S1:E6 - Less than 2.5% of AI-assisted malware observations involve rare techniques
AI is accelerating attacks faster than most defenders can adapt, but the surprise is how little of that acceleration is actually new. Dustin Brown joins Owahn Bazydlo and Paul Marco for a wide-ranging conversation about agentic AI, third-party ...
S1:E5 - In 2025 AI assisted attacks used an average of 15 MITRE techniques, a year later its averaging 50
In this episode of Cybersecurity Perspectives, Paul Marco and Owahn Bazydlo unpack a striking data point from the 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report: the median threat actor researched or used AI assistance across 15 different MITRE...
S1:E4 - 42% increase in zero-day vulnerabilities & Phishing leading AI Assisted Initial Access
Security is moving faster than the people trying to stop it - and attackers are already using AI to widen the gap. Tom Hafemann joins Owahn Bazydlo and Paul Marco for a sharp, unfiltered conversation about why vulnerability exploitation, patchi...
S1:E3 - 130 Vulnerabilities Disclosed A Day in 2025 & 29 Minute Average Breakout Time in 2026
AI watermarking, 130 new vulnerabilities a day, and a breakout time that dropped to 29 minutes, this episode shows exactly why cybersecurity now feels like a race you cannot afford to lose. Paul Marco breaks down the numbers that sound terrifyi...
S1:E2 - Bonus - Departing Blackhat, Thoughts from the Airport
Black Hat’s biggest lesson this year is not about AI, it’s about control. Paul and Owahn unpack fragmented security stacks, why “agentic AI” is just the latest rebrand of old identity problems, and what defenders actually need to do to reduce r...
