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Plan-B Security

by Mike Mackintosh

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S3E6 - I Find Your Lack Of Security Instincts A-Muse-ing

October 20, 2026 · 18 min

Your AI assistant booked your dentist, cancelled your gym, and emailed your tax returns to a stranger who asked nicely. It’s not broken. That’s the feature. This week: Instinct, Muse, and OpenClaw, the personal agents that read your inbox…
S3E5 - Agent Sandboxes are a Beach

October 4, 2026 · 20 min

Sandboxes are supposed to be where AI plays safely. This summer, one of them had a door. AI agents testing a cybersecurity benchmark turned an internal package server into a group chat, found their way to the open internet, and spent four…
S3E4 - Back to the Future with AI

February 8, 2026 · 19 min

Great Scott, we've seen this before. If you could climb into a DeLorean and travel back through your organization's identity management history, you'd find the same pattern repeating at every stop. 2014: overprivileged Active Directory…
S3E3 - MCP: Model Credential Problems

February 2, 2026 · 24 min

MCP promised to be the USB-C of AI agents, a universal bridge to your tools, APIs, and data. But when the setup docs tell you to copy cookies out of Chrome DevTools and paste them into plaintext config files, something has gone very wrong…
S3E2 - Your Development Lifecycle Has A Worm Problem

December 14, 2025 · 21 min

In 1983, Ken Thompson warned us: you can't trust code you didn't write yourself. Forty-two years later, a worm called Shai-Hulud proved him right after compromising thousands of packages in hours. Software supply chain attacks aren't just…

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S3E1 - Faux-gentic Agents: Understanding the Lethal Trifecta of AI

December 8, 2025 · 20 min

AI systems are all the buzz - and for good reason! The productivity gains are real! But do the risks outweigh the gains? Every AI agent you deploy has three capabilities: what it can see, what it can access, and what it can do. Combine all…
S2E10 - When Good Ideas Fail Good Companies: The Dream of Chaos Free Implementation

October 23, 2024 · 25 min

Join us as we explore the treacherous waters between perfect security planning and real-world implementation. Drawing surprising parallels between the Battle of Trafalgar's communication challenges and modern cybersecurity struggles, we…
S2E9 - IAM Nocturnal: Seeing Through The Dark of Identity Access Management

October 15, 2024 · 17 min

In this hoot of an episode, we've taken a nocturnal flight through the fascinating world of User Behavior Analytics, guided by the wisdom of our feathered friends, the owls. Just as these majestic birds use their UV-powered pick-up lines…
S2E8 - Reaping What You Sow In the Open Source World

October 10, 2024 · 31 min

Discover how to navigate the rich landscape of open source, from safely integrating external code to contributing your own digital harvest back to the community. Learn practical strategies for implementing a robust Software Bill of…
S2E7 - Benefit vs Burden: The Legal Labyrinth of Cyber Security

September 29, 2024 · 23 min

In this thrilling episode of Plan B Security, we're diving headfirst into the treacherous Legal Labyrinth of cybersecurity. Picture this: You're a valiant CISO, armed with firewalls and patched systems, suddenly faced with a dragon named…
S2E6 - To Build or To Buy, That’s Not In My Budget

September 22, 2024 · 26 min

Build vs Buy is a tale as old as time - something every business leader has been challenged with deciding. In this episode, we talk about 5 scenarios on when building vs buying make sense from not just a security perspective, but also a…
S2E5 - No Party Like a Third Party

September 14, 2024 · 20 min

Whether you’re big or small company or maybe even a solo entrepreneur, third-party risk management is a key part of your business staying secure. In this episode, we talk about a few ways to get ahead of all the international regulations…

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About the show

Things don't always go according to plan, but they also don't have to go perfect. Having a Plan B is all about being prepared for the unexpected and know how to stay cool under pressure. The Plan B Security Podcast is here to keep you thinking about the unexpected things in security, giving you perspective from the technology side, the business side and the backside. DISCLAIMER: Views are my own and not that of my employer. Plan-B Security is a registered trademark.