Christina Richmond | Rory Duncan - Cybersecurity Experts | Richmond Advisory Group
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This podcast is your go-to partner for understanding the cybersecurity market, industry trends, and the real-world challenges of protecting organizations today.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Cyber Sidekicks connects security market shifts and AI developments to the practical work of resilience, visibility, and risk management.
Cyber Sidekicks turns cybersecurity developments into a working conversation between principal analysts Christina Richmond and Rory Duncan, followed by pointed exchanges with industry guests.
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Harold Moss turns AI agent identity into a concrete cybersecurity question about what systems can see.
AI agents are framed here as a cybersecurity identity challenge, and Harold Moss gives that challenge a practical center: treat agents like people, assign them identities, and monitor what they access inside networks.
A practical look at AI management, application security, and Chris Newton-Smith's view of ISMS Online's compliance work.
AI management and information security compliance provide the episode's throughline, with Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond setting up a discussion that moves from stronger organizational processes around AI to ongoing concerns in application security and cybercrime.
A grounded look at why cyber response works better with legal readiness close by.
Cyber Sidekicks brings the aftermath of a cyberattack into practical focus, as Christina Richmond and Rory Duncan talk with Danny about why incident response and legal advice may need to be handled together.
A grounded look at how agentic AI governance is turning cybersecurity strategy into a build-or-buy call.
Cyber Sidekicks uses Innovation Sandbox companies to frame a live security question: how fast should vendors build or buy capabilities for agentic AI?
A Sophos thread opens into the stubborn security operations problem of disconnected enterprise tools.
Sophos's link to Rook Security gives the episode its timely hook, but the real subject is the longer-running security operations problem: too many disconnected tools, too much data, and too little clean coordination.
A clear-eyed episode on how cloud sovereignty can follow a provider's business exposure across borders.
The episode starts with a familiar bit of administrative friction: health service forms handled digitally, then printed so patients can fill them in again.
A grounded look at why agent behavior, context, and access are becoming central governance questions.
The discussion is about what agentic systems mean in practice: identity, context, tool access, memory, knowledge access, and why non-human identities may need to be judged by behavior and risk.
A grounded cybersecurity conversation that stays focused on CISO-targeted risk and consolidation.
Cyber Sidekicks keeps its attention on cybersecurity market trends, and it does not drift far from the pressures facing security leaders. The conversation touches physical and personal security for CISOs, consolidation, and email compromise, with Rock Lambros back as guest.
Deeply researched narrative dives into hacking history and cyber-law cases, hosted by Ran Levi.
Reported narratives on hackers, spyware, and data crimes from Dina Temple-Raston.
Dave, Joe, and Maria break down phishing kits, deepfakes, and social-engineering scams weekly.
IAPP's Jedidiah Bracy interviews the regulators and lawyers writing privacy and AI law.
A daily cybersecurity briefing hosted by Dave Bittner, pairing breaking incidents with a guest interview.
Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond of Cyber Sidekicks open with RSA Conference 2026 logistics (happening a month earlier this year), noting they're already heavily booked for meetings despite the earlier schedule.
Christina Richmond and Rory Duncan open Cyber Sidekicks with October 2025 Cyber Security Awareness Month, the “Build a Cyber-Strong America” theme, and the new AI term “Work Slop” from a Harvard Business Review report.
Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond use this year-in-review episode to call out 2025 cybersecurity themes, from geopolitical pressure and CISO burnout to AI’s offensive use.
Christina Richmond and Rory Duncan open with Microsoft, Azure, and Google outages, plus a Scottish Parliament voting failure tied to an Azure-based service.
Cyber Sidekicks opens with Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond covering veterans in cybersecurity, the $15.5 million seed round for MATE, and Harold Moss’s argument that AI agents need identities.
Cybersecurity podcast hosts Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond examine the MDR market landscape, exploring over 600 global providers competing in this mature segment.
Cyber Sidekicks explores two parallel threats: North Korean actors impersonating IT workers (130+ company infiltration) and Chinese state actors using Anthropic's Claude for coordinated cyber reconnaissance on 30 critical organizations.
Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond open Cyber Sidekicks with a broad update on Lumen's turnaround, then move into a long interview with Kyle Wickert, Field CTO at AlgoSec.
Cyber Sidekicks tracks 2025 cybersecurity M&A as a year of larger deals, with 2023 described as a low point and 2025 on track to match or exceed 2021 and 2022 in both volume and value.
Cyber Sidekicks covers LevelBlue’s acquisition of Fortra’s MDR, XDR, and WAF services, with Christina Richmond tying it to Rob McCullen’s Trustwave history and LevelBlue’s push to become a global MSSP.
Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond open Cyber Sidekicks with a discussion of Google DeepMind’s CodeMender, an AI agent that finds security vulnerabilities and also patches code using Gemini DeepThink models.
Christina Richmond and Rory Duncan open with their usual banter.
Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond anchor the episode in a practical approach to data protection.
Cyber Sidekicks’ 2026 predictions episode centers on three themes: “stealth AI” attacks, agentic defense tooling, and quantum resistance.
Hannah Marie Darley, Chief AI Officer and co-founder at Geordie.ai, joins Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond on Cyber Sidekicks to explain why RSA Conference’s Innovation Sandbox matters for AI security.
Nation-state actors just stole 16 million prompts from Claude using fake accounts to reverse-engineer Anthropic's AI.
Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond use Cyber Sidekicks to connect Middle East conflict with cyber risk, citing UK natural gas prices that spiked 93% and AWS data-center disruption in the United Arab Emirates.
Palo Alto Networks’ announced $3.35 billion cash acquisition of Chronosphere is the episode’s main market story, and Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond tie it to cyber M&A fatigue and AI-era platform building.
Cyber Sidekicks talks with Chris Hughes, VP of Security Strategy at Zenity, about why agentic AI changes security by giving software real autonomy and action-taking ability.
Cyber Sidekicks opens with SBOMs, the Software Bill of Materials, and a CISA-backed push to improve supply-chain visibility while adding more work for CISOs already handling third-party risk management.
Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond open with their familiar banter before moving into the week’s cybersecurity pressure points.
Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond open on LevelBlue's acquisition of Cybereason.
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Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond welcome Andy and go straight to the security question they like to begin with: what keeps you up at night?
Christina Richmond and Rory Duncan open with INCH360 in Spokane, where Christina says the free cybersecurity and AI conference delivered 8 CPEs, a military tribute from Eastern Washington University Army ROTC, and sessions on ransomware, audit, insurance, and AI-driven scams.
Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond mark the 40th episode of Cyber Sidekicks with a long segment on the AWS outage, calling out its "knock-on effect" across the internet and comparing it with the CrowdStrike outage.
CrowdStrike's January M&A push leads the episode, with plans to acquire SGNL for identity-related controls and Seraphic Security for browser-native protection.
The chat starts lightly.
Cyber Sidekicks centers this week on agentic AI security with guest Rock Lambros, founder and CEO of Rock Cyber, alongside news on CISOs facing personal safety threats and Varonis's planned acquisition of SlashNext.
Hosts Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond discuss their RSA conference experience and introduce a guest, Ross Young.
A cybersecurity news podcast covering RSA Conference 2026 with an interview with Expel's CEO about industry trends and personal anecdotes.
A discussion at RSAC about probabilistic security and AI-driven cybersecurity strategies with an IBM expert.
The hosts interview a CISO at RSAC about the crisis in InfoSec resilience and the shift from promises to proof.
Hosts Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond introduce the 30th episode of Cyber Sidekicks, discussing vibe coding and its implications for security practitioners.
Hosts discuss personal weather anecdotes before transitioning into cybersecurity market analysis.
Hosts Christina Richmond and Rory Duncan introduce the podcast, discuss growing listener base, and welcome Spanish audience.
Hosts discuss cybersecurity trends from RSA conference, focusing on agentic AI and identity management.
Hosts preview the RSA conference, discussing their packed schedule of meetings with cybersecurity vendors and excitement for the event.
Hosts Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond introduce the weekly cybersecurity podcast, discussing personal health and upcoming RSA conference.