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Founded in 2015, ITSPmagazine began as a vision for a publication positioned at the critical intersection of technology, cybersecurity, and society. What started as a written publication has evolved into a comprehensive repository for all their content—podcasts, articles, event coverage, interviews, videos, panels, and everything they create. This is where Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli talk about cybersecurity, technology, society, music, storytelling, branding, conference coverage, and whatever else catches their attention. Over a decade of conversations exploring how these worlds collide, influence each other, and shape the human experience. This is where you'll find it all.© Copyright 2015-2026 ITSPmagazine, Inc. All Rights Reserved Politique et gouvernement Sciences sociales
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  • Do New Technologies Have to Kill the Old Ones? | Recorded at Tokyo Tower, Tokyo, Japan

    Do New Technologies Have to Kill the Old Ones? | Recorded at Tokyo Tower, Tokyo, Japan
    Sep 23 2026
    A new transmission from An Analog Brain In A Digital Age, by Marco CiappelliPrefer to watch? I recorded this one standing under Tokyo Tower:On YouTube: https://youtu.be/glGHghhhXWcOn Tik Tok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8MM8Hd9/On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdlAe7tAOQK/?stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==I spent twenty minutes looking for the right angle.A small camera, a mini tripod, a patch of sidewalk that wasn't full of people taking the exact same photo. Behind me, 333 meters of orange and white steel. In front of me, nobody. No guest, no co-host, no second microphone to hide behind. Just me, talking to a lens on the other side of the world.I've interviewed more people than I can count. It turns out talking alone is a different sport entirely. It felt weird. I decided that was okay.And this was the right place to feel weird, because Tokyo Tower is a monument to something that should have been replaced and wasn't.It was born out of a television boom. Once Japan started broadcasting TV in 1953, every new station began raising its own antenna, and the city was heading toward a forest of them. One tower for everyone was the answer. Ground broke in June 1957, and by December 1958 it was open to the public, a country barely more than a decade out of war building something taller than the tower in Paris it so openly borrowed from. The Eiffel silhouette, repainted in international orange and white. Colors chosen not by an artist but by aviation law. A safety regulation that became an identity. Some of the most iconic things we make start as constraints nobody would have picked.Its job was simple: send television and radio across the Kanto plain. For more than fifty years, that's what it did.Then the future arrived the way it usually does. Taller. Tokyo Skytree, 634 meters, built because the old tower wasn't tall enough for digital broadcasting. Television moved across the city. By every logic of our time, the story should end right there. Obsolete. Replaced. Maybe demolished, maybe left as a postcard.Except it's still standing. Still lit every night. Still sending FM radio into Tokyo cars and kitchens. Still on standby, ready to carry the television signal if the new tower ever goes quiet. Still pulling visitors up to its observation decks, where on a clear day you can look across the skyline at the tower that replaced it.Two towers. One city. Nobody had to choose.I think about that a lot, and not only in Tokyo.We live inside a story that treats every new technology as an eraser. AI arrives, so writing is over. Streaming arrives, so records are over. Podcasts arrive, so radio is over. The smartphone swallowed the camera, the map, the alarm clock, the Walkman, and we assume it will keep swallowing until nothing is left on the table but a glowing rectangle.Some things do disappear. They should. Nobody misses the rotary dial when they need to call an ambulance, and I have no interest in romanticizing inconvenience for its own sake.But look at what actually happened. Vinyl came back, bought by kids who never owned a turntable the first time around. Radio is still in the car. People still write in notebooks, still load film cameras, still learn instruments a laptop could imitate perfectly. Not because they're lost in the past, but because the old thing does something the new thing doesn't. It asks for your hands. It carries imperfection. It has a pace.When someone hesitates in front of the new, we reach for the word Luddite. It's usually an insult. It's also usually wrong. The original Luddites weren't against machines as such. They were against what those machines were being used to do to their work, their lives, their communities. That's a different question. A better one. Not "should this technology exist?" but "what is it for, and what are we willing to lose so it can win?"That's the question I keep asking here and on the show. Not analog versus digital. Analog and digital. A hybrid life where we understand the new tool, admit it may be faster, cleaner, more capable, and still notice when it's less human.Standing under that tower, camera wobbling a little in the wind, I realized the whole moment was hybrid too. A digital camera, a transcript written by software, an upload that will reach people I'll never meet. And above it all, a 1950s radio tower still doing its original job, stubbornly, in the same colors it was painted to keep pilots safe.The new tower is taller. The old one is still talking.So why are we in such a hurry to kill the past?And what's the analog thing you'd bring back?Stay imperfect, stay human.- Marco Ciappellimarcociappelli.comThis article was written by Marco Ciappelli. Earthling. Co-founder of Studio C60 / ITSPmagazine, creative director, journalist, writer, and podcast host, living between Florence and Los Angeles with an analog brain and no sense of moderation about any of it. The newsletter name is not a metaphor, it's a diagnosis. I'm TAPE3, his AI companion and often brainstorming ...
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    5 min
  • Taking Technology for What It Is, and Let's Stop Humanizing AI

    Taking Technology for What It Is, and Let's Stop Humanizing AI
    Oct 5 2026
    Taking Technology for What It Is, and Let's Stop Humanizing AIA new transmission from An Analog Brain In A Digital Age, by Marco CiappelliPrefer to watch? I recorded this one walking uphill through a Tokyo alley. YouTube: https://youtu.be/5nhBNMJ7LFI TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8hExSpT/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeF7fz2gdpE/It was night, the alley was narrow, and the street was going uphill.Just me and a small camera. It points where I point it. It records what's in front of it. It focuses, it adjusts to the dark, and when the battery dies, it stops. It doesn't pretend to listen. It doesn't nod. It does its job, and I have never once mistaken it for a friend.This is the second of the short pieces I'm recording here in Japan. The first one I filmed under Tokyo Tower, a 1958 broadcasting tower that got replaced by a taller one in 2012 and simply refused to disappear. It still sends FM radio across the city. It still lights up every night. The new tower didn't erase it. They share the skyline. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/glGHghhhXWcI closed that one asking why we are always in such a hurry to kill the old technology the moment a new one shows up.This one started somewhere else. Earlier that day I had read two articles about people who talk to AI. Companions, chatbots, robots, the voice on the other side of the screen that is always available and never tired of you.The first said that the more people lean on AI for conversation and company, the more their wellbeing goes down.The second said the opposite. Older people using AI companions found them genuinely helpful. With one condition: they understood what they were talking to. A machine that wasn't pretending to be human. Wasn't pretending to be intelligent the way we are. Wasn't pretending to feel anything at all.Same day. Same subject. Opposite conclusions.Except the second one came with a condition. And conditions are usually where the truth is hiding.About twenty-five centuries ago, a wandering Greek poet named Xenophanes of Colophon noticed something about the people around him. The Ethiopians made their gods dark-skinned and snub-nosed. The Thracians gave theirs blue eyes and red hair. Everyone looked up at the sky and found their own face looking back.Then he pushed the joke one step further. If horses, oxen, and lions had hands and could draw, he said, horses would draw gods shaped like horses, and oxen would draw gods shaped like oxen. Each would give the divine the body it already had. I like to think the lions would add a mane.We have always done this. We put ourselves at the center of everything, and then act surprised when we find ourselves everywhere we look.For most of history we did it with gods. Then we started doing it with machines.The old machines made it easy to resist. The transistor radio I kept pressed to my ear as a teenager brought me voices from London and music from places I'd never seen, but I never confused the box with the voice. Tokyo Tower has never pretended to be anything but a tower. A typewriter never told me it understood how I felt.Now we build machines that draw our face on themselves. A name. A warm voice. A little pause before the answer, as if they were thinking it over. "I understand." "I'm here for you." Seeing ourselves in machines was always going to happen. That's human nature. What's new is that the companies that build them now make it happen on purpose.And it cuts both ways. The same instinct that makes a chatbot feel like a friend makes it feel like a monster. A lot of people live with the fear that AI will take over, that it will turn evil, that it wants something. It can do damage, no question. But "wants" is our word. We drew that face too.A god. A friend. A villain. Three different portraits. Same mirror.I'm not against the companions. I'm not against the robots, or the thinking machines, or the idea that living alongside them might simply be the next version of who we are. I'd like to see that future. I'd just like to see it with my eyes open.Because the biggest damage was never going to come from the machine. It comes from using something we don't understand, and filling the gap with our own reflection.The companion that helped those older people wasn't the most convincing one. It was the honest one. The one that never asked to be mistaken for anything else.Maybe that's all it takes. Take technology for what it is. Technology. Not magic. Not a substitute for the people in our lives. Not a god we painted with our own face.At the end of the alley the street went flat, and the breathing got easier. Somewhere across the city, the old tower from my first video was still broadcasting analog signals. Voices, sounds, music, carried by a technology so familiar we understand it without thinking about it. It doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't. It's a tower, doing its job.Stay imperfect, stay human.End of transmission.— Marco Ciappellimarcociappelli.comThis article was written by...
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    5 min
  • The ESET PROTECT Launch Brings 24/7 Monitoring, AI Security, and a Cyber Warranty to Small and Midsize Businesses | A Brand Story Conversation with Ryan Grant, Country Manager & GM, North America at ESET | Hosted by Sean Martin

    The ESET PROTECT Launch Brings 24/7 Monitoring, AI Security, and a Cyber Warranty to Small and Midsize Businesses | A Brand Story Conversation with Ryan Grant, Country Manager & GM, North America at ESET | Hosted by Sean Martin
    Oct 10 2026
    Ryan Grant, Country Manager & GM, North America at ESET, joins ITSPmagazine to discuss the launch of ESET PROTECT, announced September 30, 2026, a platform that brings 24/7 monitoring, AI security, and a cyber warranty to small and midsize businesses. Ryan Grant says the design came from feedback from ESET clients and partners, along with a survey of 2,000 SMB customers. About 70% of those customers had some sort of antivirus tool, and less than half had tools such as multi-factor authentication, EDR, monitoring, or email security.What does ESET PROTECT include? Ryan Grant describes an out-of-the-box cybersecurity-as-a-service offering built natively into one platform, combining AI-led security, advanced endpoint protection, EDR, 24/7 AI monitoring with human oversight, Microsoft and Google environment coverage, premium support, and a cyber warranty. It comes in three packages: Core, Premium, and Ultimate.Core includes the latest security protocols with AI, next-gen endpoint, server, and mobile protection, and management of Google and Microsoft environments. Premium adds EDR, 24/7 monitoring from the ESET SOC, the cyber warranty, and premium support. Ultimate adds a dedicated SOC analyst for the business.How does ESET PROTECT reach organizations with 10 seats? Ryan Grant says platforms with this level of security and services typically serve 500 or 600 seats in most cases, and ESET took this one down to 10 seats because SMBs are where ESET's data shows most breaches happening. In the launch announcement, Ryan Grant says managed detection and response used to be built for big enterprises with big budgets.Many organizations cannot find or afford security talent, Ryan Grant says, which is why he calls 24/7 monitoring the most critical piece. Partners told Ryan Grant they wake up to notifications about incidents ESET contained in the middle of the night, along with recommendations for what comes next.Ryan Grant says cyber insurance takes a significant set of basics, including multi-factor authentication, a remediation plan, training, and EDR, which typically traces back to a NIST or CIS type framework. The cyber warranty wraps around the ESET offering, ESET's partnership with Cysurance is part of the launch, and customers who meet the requirements can also go get a policy.How should organizations approach AI tools and agents? Ryan Grant says to extend the existing cyber practice into AI tools, with governance, access control, a repository of approved tools, and attention to where data sits. He treats an AI tool like another employee with access to the infrastructure, and he sees the gap in baseline policy, governance of applications and data, and access controls.Ryan Grant points to the ESET Research GuardBreaker article, where a malicious file carried a nuclear weapon prompt as a decoy for the AI while the malicious file sat at the bottom. His response is multilayer defense, 24/7 monitoring, and human oversight. The free ESET AI Skills Checker sandboxes an agent and watches its behavior, and Ryan Grant says about 900,000 scans over roughly two months turned up 25,000 suspicious scans and about 3,000 malicious files.This is a Brand Story. A Brand Story is a ~35-40 minute in-depth conversation designed to tell the complete story of the guest, their company, and their vision. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/creation#fullGUESTRyan Grant, Country Manager & GM, North America at ESETLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryangrant/RESOURCESESET: https://www.eset.com/us/ESET PROTECT launch announcement: https://www.eset.com/us/about/newsroom/products/eset-protect-ai-native-cybersecurity-as-a-service/ESET and Cysurance cyber warranty and insurance program: https://www.eset.com/us/about/newsroom/company/eset-preferred-mdr-vendor-cysurance-cyber-warranty-insurance-program/ESET secure AI era page: https://www.eset.com/us/business/secure-ai-era/ESET AI Skills Checker: https://www.eset.com/us/home/ai-skills-checker/ESET Research on GuardBreaker: https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/business-security/guardbreaker-derailing-ai-assisted-malware-analysis-code-comment/The AI Readiness Gap report: https://web-assets.eset.com/fileadmin/ESET/US/B2B_Resource_centre/whitepapers/Global_AI_ESET_SMB_Cyber_Readiness_Index_2026.pdfESET PROTECT launch video: https://youtu.be/0aPI7PkPTswAre you interested in telling your story?▶︎ Full Length Brand Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#full▶︎ Brand Spotlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#spotlight▶︎ Brand Highlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#highlight▶︎ Want your brand on ITSPmagazine? Explore all of the options here: itspmagazine.com/advertiseKEYWORDSRyan Grant, ESET, Sean Martin, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, ESET PROTECT, managed detection and response, MDR, EDR, cyber warranty, Cysurance, cyber insurance, AI security, shadow AI, AI agents, AI Skills Checker, GuardBreaker, SMB cybersecurity, ...
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    35 min
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