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In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community. Support our show by sharing your favorite episodes with a friend, subscribe, give us a rating or leave a comment on your podcast platform. This podcast is brought to you by LimaCharlie, maker of the SecOps Cloud Platform, infrastructure for SecOps where everything is built API first. Scale with confidence as your business grows.

Vulnerability data isn’t the starting point. Context is. Ed Amoroso and Garrett Hamilton unpack why CVEs on their own don’t explain risk. What matters first: ⇢ What assets actually exist⇢ How controls are deployed and configured⇢ What the live posture looks like, not last month’s report With that context in place, vulnerabilities stop being noise and start becoming decisions. Garrett also makes a critical point near the end: many security tools are excellent at producing findings, but far less effective at helping teams resolve them.

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The Hidden Danger of AI-Generated Code.

If you're more flexible, you're more modern with your technology, the experiment... will be faster." - Lior Gross, CTO at Caliente.mx. Old infrastructure is too costly for AI experiments.

"When cyber risk is treated as an internal problem, governments miss where most modern attacks actually begin: in their vendors, their service providers, digital dependencies that sit outside their direct control." SecurityScorecard's Head of Public Policy Michael Centrella shares his key takeaways and insights from the latest World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 which states a simple, clear truth: cyber risk no longer lives inside the firewall.

Recent figures from a DeFi agency show hundreds of millions lost in a quarter, with a significant share linked to smart contract vulnerabilities. The conversation accepts serious security gaps in decentralised finance yet also notes blockchains improving land registries in corrupt environments, where public smart contracts help protect ownership records.

Modern security automation depends on clean, consistent data. The Data Transformation Agent in Falcon Fusion SOAR makes it simple to shape and interpret security data with natural language prompts. Teams can describe how data should be transformed in plain English, automatically generate expressions with full transparency, and reuse transformations across workflows. By embedding data normalization directly into automation, Fusion SOAR reduces complexity and helps teams act on signals faster.