Transforming Frontline Workflows with Passwordless Access, AI costs, and the News - Joel Burleson-Davis - ESW #431

Transforming Frontline Workflows with Passwordless Access, AI costs, and the News - Joel Burleson-Davis - ESW #431

Author: Security Weekly Productions November 3, 2025 Duration: 1:41:46

Segment 1: Interview with Joel Burleson-Davis

Frontline workers can't afford to be slowed down by manual, repetitive logins, especially in mission-critical industries where both security and productivity are crucial. This segment will explore how inefficient login methods erode productivity, while workarounds like shared credentials increase risk, highlighting why passwordless authentication is emerging as a game-changer for frontline access to shared devices. Joel Burleson-Davis, Chief Technology Officer of Imprivata, will share how organizations can adopt frictionless and secure access management to improve both security and frontline efficiency at scale.

Segment Resources:

This segment is sponsored by Imprivata. Visit https://securityweekly.com/imprivata to learn more about them!

Topic Segment: The Economics of AI Agents

Vendors are finding, after integrating agents into their processes, that agentic AI can get expensive very quickly. Of course, this isn't surprising when your goal is "review all my third party contracts and fill out questionnaires for me" and the pricing is X DOLLARS for 1M TOKENS blah blah context window, max model thinking model blah blah. No one knows what the conversion is from "review my contracts" to millions of tokens, so everyone is left to just test it out and see what the bill is at the end of the month.

As we saw with Cloud when adoption started increasing in the early 2010s, we are naturally entering the era of AI cost optimization. In this segment, we'll discuss what that means, how it affects the market, and how it affects the use of AI in cybersecurity.

Jackie mentions this story from Wired in the segment: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bubble-will-burst/

News Segment

Finally, in the enterprise security news,

  1. we've got funding and acquisitions
  2. 7 red flags you're doing cloud wrong
  3. security standards for open source projects
  4. post mortems of attacks on open source supply chain
  5. some analysis on current and historic AWS outages
  6. a deep dive
  7. some dumpster fires
  8. and how much would you pay for a robot that puts away the dishes?

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

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-431


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