Monzy Merza, How Much AI is Too Much, and the Weekly News - Monzy Merza - ESW #415

Monzy Merza, How Much AI is Too Much, and the Weekly News - Monzy Merza - ESW #415

Author: Security Weekly Productions July 14, 2025 Duration: 1:43:41

Segment 1: Interview with Monzy Merza - There is a Right and Wrong Way to use AI in the SOC

In the rush to score AI funding dollars, a lot of startups build a basic wrapper around existing generative AI services like those offered by OpenAI and Anthropic. As a result, these services are expensive, and don't satisfy many security operations teams' privacy requirements.

This is just the tip of the iceberg when discussing the challenges of using AI to aid the SOC. In this interview, we'll dive into the challenge of finding security vendors that care about security, the need for transparency in products, the evolving shared responsibility model, and other topics related to solving security operations challenges.

Segment 2: Topic Segment - How much AI is too much AI?

In the past few weeks, I've talked to several startup founders who are running into buyers that aren't allowed to purchase their products, even though they want them and prefer them over the competition. Why? No AI and they're not allowed to buy.

Segment 3: News Segment

Finally, in the enterprise security news,

  1. We cover the latest funding
  2. The Trustwave saga comes to a positive end
  3. Android 16 could help you evade law enforcement
  4. Microsoft is kicking 3rd party AV out of the kernel
  5. Giving AI some personality (and honesty)
  6. Log4shell canaries reveal password weirdness
  7. Denmark gives citizens copyright to their own faces to fight AI
  8. McDonald's has an AI whoopsie
  9. Ingram Micro has a ransomware whoopsie
  10. Drama in the trailer lock industry

All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-415


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