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At UC Irvine’s Digital Leadership Agenda 2026, moderated by Nicole Perlroth, Garrett Hamilton illustrates what those blind spots can look like: “We believed it was deployed.”“It was turned on.”“It should have stopped this.” Except one exception, one policy gap, one control not applied at scale — and assumptions replace reality. The real problem isn’t visibility. It’s continuously validating intent against execution.

Garrett Hamilton sat down with Todd Graham, Managing Partner at Microsoft’s venture fund, M12, to talk about why M12 invested in Reach and why our mission was a no-brainer for him. Nation-state attacks make the headlines—but most people are getting owned by misconfigured servers, networks, and controls hiding in plain sight. Turns out the problem isn’t what teams don’t own. It’s what they do own that isn’t, in most cases, even turned on.

AI assistants with broad enterprise access are creating a new attack vector. Chris Luft and Matt Bromiley discuss the Gemini Jack vulnerability, where attackers used prompt injection to turn Google's AI assistant into an unwitting accomplice in data exfiltration. The attack embedded hidden instructions in documents or emails. When employees asked Gemini normal questions like "show me our budgets," the AI retrieved the poisoned document and executed the attacker's commands without anyone clicking anything.

Are agentic AI threats just hype or reality? Security Visionaries host Max Havey digs into the world of agentic AI-enabled threats and cyber espionage with guests Neil Thacker, Global Privacy and Data Protection Officer at Netskope, and Ray Canzanese, Head of Netskope Threat Labs. IN THIS EPISODE.