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The old security math is broken. Teams used to get roughly 60 days between a vulnerability going public and attackers using it. Harman Kaur, Tanium’s CTO, explains why that number has flipped to negative, and what it means when the patch you need does not exist yet.

This conversation is about the difference between automation and transformation. Running the same broken process faster is not progress. Harman makes the case for rebuilding security from first principles: changing org charts, retiring tools people have relied on for years, and moving humans out of triage and into judgment.

She also gets specific about trust. In her view, trust now sits in the underlying data, because a confident AI acting on stale or incomplete data becomes dangerous at scale. Harman & KB get into the boardroom scramble around Mythos, why there is no single tool that solves it, and why the vendors closest to the data will be the ones left standing.

About Harman:
As Chief Technology Officer, Harman Kaur leads Tanium’s technology strategy, product management, AI and automation roadmap, and strategic technology partnerships.

Harman brings more than a decade of combined experience across the United States Air Force and Tanium. She continues to serve as a Cyber Officer in the U.S. Air Force. At Tanium, Harman has held senior roles across the customer organization, R&D, and most recently led the company’s AI and Autonomous Endpoint Management strategy as head of AI before stepping into the CTO role. Harman received an MBA from the University of Southern California and a BS in Information Systems from Hawaii Pacific University.

Keywords: cybersecurity, AI security, vulnerability management, patch management, endpoint security, autonomous endpoint management, Tanium, Harman Kaur, security automation, AI transformation, data quality, zero day, CISO, board risk, Mythos, security operations, KBKast

Bradon Rogers, Chief Customer Officer at Island, the company that created the enterprise browser category in 2020, joins KB to unpack why the industry spent two decades bolting security around the browser instead of building it in. They dig into whether organisations are solving complexity or just relocating it, why VPNs and VDI survived so long when everybody hated them, and Bradon’s blunt read on SASE: legacy on-prem architecture shoved into the cloud. He explains why SSL inspection leaves blind spots the laws of physics won’t let you close, what zero trust misses after access is granted, and how data boundaries keep company information out of personal AI tenants without turning security into the say no police.

Bradon closes with his prediction for the next two years: non-human identities, agents working without human hands on the wheel, and agentic engineers who won’t just be developers but lawyers and doctors shepherding agents through their work.

About Bradon:
Bradon Rogers is the Chief Customer Officer at Island, where he directs the technical aspects of all customer interactions, leveraging his vast experience in cybersecurity, enterprise software, and cloud technology. Bradon’s career in cybersecurity spans over 25 years, during which he has played an executive leadership role for some of the largest firms in the industry.

Keywords: enterprise browser, browser security, Island, zero trust, VPN replacement, VDI, SASE, SSL inspection, DLP, shadow AI, data boundary, agentic AI, AI agents, non-human identity, CISO, cybersecurity podcast

KB is on the ground at SAP Sapphire 2026 in Orlando, where AI has moved beyond experimentation and into the center of enterprise decision making. In this KB On The Go episode, Maura Hameroff (CMO, Cloud ERP Private and RISE with SAP) makes the case that modernizing your core is a business transformation decision rather than a technical upgrade, and that companies still running on legacy systems carry more operational and security risk than most realize.

Then Ted Way, PhD (VP & Chief Product Officer, Business AI Product Engineering, SAP) walks through what responsible enterprise AI actually takes: a governance layer, real business process knowledge, and data you can trust. As he puts it, AI first without security first is just a faster way to a data breach. A grounded look at what it takes to move from AI pilots to AI at scale without cutting corners that come back to bite you.

In this episode, Anna Wheeler, CEO of SSAW LLC, joins KB as she explains why so many cyber teams are stuck in event-driven strategy while calling it the real thing, why the doers can’t climb out of it because their KPIs won’t let them, and why visionary CEOs keep getting ousted when the board can’t see what they see. Along the way: the CEOs quietly burning more AI tokens than anyone else in their company, vendors winning unicorn exits on marketing rather than technology, adversaries stealing encrypted data as a long game, and what happens when boards start making decisions on synthetic confidence.

Her closing advice for leaders: get very comfortable with being uncomfortable, and go looking for the sources you’d normally avoid.

About Anna:
Anna Wheeler is a cybersecurity strategist and former Army Blackhawk crew chief who has spent the last two decades helping government and industry modernize how they secure missions, data, and critical infrastructure. She has led federal modernization and cyber campaigns across DHS and the wider national security community, shaping multi‑billion‑dollar technology portfolios and advancing cloud, Zero Trust, and AI‑driven approaches to resilience. As CEO of SSAW LLC and a trusted advisor to C‑suites, boards, and policymakers, Anna is known for turning buzzword-heavy innovation into pragmatic, mission‑aligned change. She serves on multiple advisory boards, mentors rising cyber leaders, and speaks frequently on moving from “FOMO to focus” in cybersecurity innovation.

Keywords: AI strategy, CISO, board of directors, CEO, cybersecurity leadership, event-driven strategy, strategic thinking, synthetic confidence, AI bias, go-to-market, vendor marketing, Symantec, SBOM, harvest now decrypt later, cybersecurity podcast

Recorded at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, where 20,000 operators, engineers and executives gathered at Mandalay Bay to shape the future of networking, AI and cybersecurity. KB sits down with two Cisco leaders confronting the problems AI is creating and the infrastructure built to outlast them. Tom Gillis, SVP and GM of Cisco’s Infrastructure and Security Group, explains why the gap between a vulnerability being disclosed and exploited has collapsed from months to hours, and how Live Protect shields critical flaws between patches with no reboot and no downtime. Then Ramana Kompella, Head of Cisco Research and Cisco Fellow, makes the case for quantum networking over ever bigger quantum computers, unpacks the new Universal Quantum Switch, and explains why “harvest now, decrypt later” makes quantum safe infrastructure a today decision, not a 2029 one.

Key topics: AI accelerated exploitation, vulnerability shielding and Live Protect, continuous infrastructure updates and digital twins, quantum networking, the Universal Quantum Switch, post quantum cryptography and CNSA 2.0, and the harvest now decrypt later threat.