The Segment

Zero Trust for the AI Era | John Kindervag, Rich Mogull, and Don Yeske

Episode Notes

AI is giving attackers new ways to move faster, scale attacks, and explore every possible path through an environment. But does that mean defenders need an entirely new security strategy?

In this special episode of The Segment, Raghu Nandakumara is joined by John Kindervag, creator of Zero Trust and Chief Evangelist at Illumio; Rich Mogull, Chief Analyst at the Cloud Security Alliance; and Don Yeske, longtime federal cybersecurity leader and Senior Solutions Architect and Enablement Lead at Virtru, to celebrate the launch of their new book, Cyber Resilience at Machine Speed: The Zero Trust Model for the AI Era.

Together, they explore why Zero Trust remains critical in the age of AI, how organizations can identify and secure their most important protect surfaces, and why trying to defend everything at once is often a recipe for failure.

Download the book here: https://www.illumio.com/resource-center/cyber-resilience-at-machine-speed-the-zero-trust-model-for-the-ai-era

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why AI changes the speed and scale of cyberattacks, but not the fundamentals of security
• How protect surfaces make Zero Trust practical and achievable
• Why attackers face a fundamentally different problem than defenders
• How segmentation and security boundaries can make an attacker’s job harder
• Why “the accumulation of tactics isn’t strategy”
• How organizations can prioritize their most critical assets instead of trying to secure everything at once
• Why AI is making security fundamentals more urgent, not obsolete
• How Zero Trust has evolved from the cloud era to the age of frontier AI