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Tearing Down Vendor Fluff: The Real State of AI Security | James Berthoty
Episode Description
n the era of rapid AI adoption, is it time for security teams to rethink their entire AppSec stack and throw away traditional SAST and SCA scanners?In this episode of The Secure Disclosure, host Mackenzie Jackson sits down with James Berthoty, cloud security engineer and founder of Latio, a practitioner-first analyst firm. Together, they cut through vendor marketing fluff to discuss what actually stops modern breaches. James explains why executive mandates are pushing AI adoption faster than the cloud revolution and highlights the critical risks that emerge when autonomous AI agents gain CLI access and compute power.They also explore the dramatic surge in open-source supply chain malware, how AI coding agents lowered the barrier of entry for attackers, and the critical importance of securing developer endpoints, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes infrastructure. To wrap it all up, James tackles the podcast's signature Would You Rather game to navigate terrible security trade-offs.