Most CISOs cannot draw a line from what they spend to the risk it reduces. Jake Bernardes, CISO, thinks that is the core failure of the role.

In this episode of Zero Trust Journey, Jake lays out how he triages a security program: what is actually on fire, what is blocking the business from selling, and what risk every dollar is buying down. Everything else is noise.

🔹 The chartered accountant who became a pen tester who became a CISO
🔹 Why financial literacy is the skill most security leaders are missing
🔹 Every tool, service, and headcount: show me the risk it buys down
🔹 The AI and GRC question nobody answers honestly: is internal audit going away?
🔹 The tuning tax, the hours you spend teaching AI to do the job
🔹 Zero to FedRAMP Moderate in six months, with almost no budget and almost no team
🔹 Day one advice for a first-time CISO walking into zero program

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62% of security teams have no idea what's happening in their wireless environment. Is yours one of them?

In this episode of the Zero Trust Journey Podcast, host Victor Monga sits down with wireless security expert Brett Walkenhorst to tackle the most overlooked attack surface in enterprise security — wireless. While most Zero Trust conversations orbit around identity, cloud, and network, wireless quietly remains the forgotten frontier. And attackers know it.
Brett breaks down why Wi-Fi is just the tip of the iceberg, how continuous monitoring beats annual audits, and why wireless-related CVEs are growing 20x faster than the overall CVE rate — a stat that should stop every security architect in their tracks.

🔑 Key Topics Covered:

• Why wireless goes far beyond Wi-Fi — Bluetooth, Zigbee, cellular, and IoT all count
• How Software-Defined Radios (SDR) enable spectrum-wide protocol discovery
• The TSCM model and why point-in-time sweeps simply aren't enough
• Continuous monitoring as the wireless equivalent of always-on packet inspection
• Real-world wireless attacks: drone-based evil twin infiltrations and APT lateral movement through neighboring networks
• Why IoT devices get excluded from pen tests — and why that's a dangerous cycle
• How AI is already being weaponized to accelerate wireless attacks
• The one thing every security team should do today to close the wireless gap

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In this episode of the Zero Trust Journey, Dr. Victor Monga sits down with Vishwas Manral, Founder and CEO of Precize Inc. and a major contributor to the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).

We dive deep into the "messy middle" of AI in cybersecurity. While AI has revolutionized how fast we can find and fix vulnerabilities, the critical gap of assessing business impact and understanding enterprise context remains a congested, single-lane freeway.

What You’ll Learn:
◈ The "Messy Middle": Why a lack of business context is the primary bottleneck slowing down AI automation.
◈ Agentic Automation Risks: Why moving autonomous agents from a POC lab to production is incredibly risky without proper data hygiene.
◈ The Context Gap: Why having the smartest LLMs means nothing if your enterprise data is fragmented, outdated, or unstructured.
◈ Decision as a Service: The inevitable shift from SaaS to DaaS and the massive opportunity in building a true context fabric for your enterprise.

Key Moments:
00:00 ➔ Introduction: AI's missing link and the problem with Business Impact Analysis.
02:05 ➔ The "Messy Middle": Finding problems vs. taking API-driven action.
05:28 ➔ Extrapolating Data: Why a single LLM isn't enough to understand unique corporate environments.
07:01 ➔ The 10% Confidence Gap: Why most automation gets permanently stuck in the test lab.
11:01 ➔ The Hygiene Problem: Why an autonomous agent might accidentally nuke your production environment.
16:13 ➔ THE QUOTE: "We are moving from software as a service to a decision as a service."

🎙️ Meet the Guest:
Vishwas Manral is the Founder and CEO of Precize Inc. A serial entrepreneur and leading mind in cybersecurity, Vishwas has a proven track record of seeing the next big industry problem and building the exact technology needed to solve it. His current focus is on building the context fabric required to make AI and agentic workflows safe for enterprise production environments.
➔ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishwasmanral/

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