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GenAI Security: Defending Against Deepfakes and Automated Social Engineering

Chemical and biological attack attempts can be hard to detect, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t happening, including at major events and sports games, says Jeff Brodeur in this month’s Security Management Highlights podcast, sponsored by Acoem. We look at other blind spots this episode, including in multitenant building security with René Reider, CPP, PSP, who explains how changing perspectives from flat, concentric circles of security to vertical strategies makes a difference for tenants. Then, Kim Pacelli outlines some of the frequently encountered challenges in discrimination and Title IX investigations and how security personnel can get involved.

Additional Resources
Learn more about this episode’s sponsor, Acoem, and the ATD gunshot detection system here: https://acoematd.com/ 

Read more from Jeff Brodeur about chemical and biological weapon risk and screening in the latest issue of Security Technology: https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/monthly-issues/security-technology/archive/2025/december/essential-security-strategies-threat-of-chemical-attacks/ 

Dive deeper into screening skills and considerations here: https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/monthly-issues/security-technology/archive/2025/december/ 

Want to learn more about multitenant facility security and the challenges of porous facilities? Check out Security Management’s coverage here: https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/articles/2025/11/multitenant/ 

If you’re facing pushback on security controls, read this analysis here: https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/articles/2025/11/multitenant/canny-communication/ 

Before introducing new security measures, consider your change management process: https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/articles/2025/09/change-management/ 

Want to boost your creative, concierge-style security? You can learn from museums. https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/articles/2024/04/concierge/ 

What are your responsibilities during a Title IX investigation? Security personnel are often the first responders. Learn more in these Security Management articles: https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/articles/2025/11/title-ix-investigations/ 


Catching Critical Security Blind Spots, From Biohazard Attacks to Investigation Resources

We share our PKI predictions for 2026. Topics include PQC, eIDAS 2, CT logging, ACME, passkeys, CA distrust, AI model poisoning, and new attack vectors.

Root Causes 552: 2026 Predictions

We discuss quantum clocks and their potential role in cryptography.

Root Causes 553: Connecting Quantum Clocks to Cryptography

In this episode, we sit down with Nate Beach-Westmoreland, Head of Strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence at Booz Allen, to explore the evolving sophistication of Chinese cyber operations and their implications for U.S. national security. Our guest breaks down how the PRC leverages trusted-relationship abuse, network edge exploitation, and AI-powered influence campaigns to infiltrate critical infrastructure, evade detection, and operate below escalation thresholds that limit allied responses. From supply chain compromises to the weaponization of artificial intelligence in information warfare, this conversation reveals the strategic chess game playing out in cyberspace—and what the U.S. and its allies must do to regain the advantage.

Breaking down the latest era of Chinese cyberespionage with Booz Allen's Nate Beach-Westmoreland

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Tech watchers tend to conflate the many quantum technologies under development right now.   In this episode we go through these technologies and explain how they connect.

Root Causes 554: Disentangling Quantum

What won't the Film School Janitors watch and review for their fans?

Well, they watched and reviewed PLAYDATE, so I would venture to say the sky's the limit! 

Amazon Prime's Playdate Review

In this episode, the thirty-fifth in a series, Nate Latessa, Chief Revenue Officer and Vice President of Advisory Services for EDRM Trusted Partner HaystackID, sits down with EDRM's Mary Mack and Holley Robinson to update us on his journey and to talk about Corporate Data Intelligence. The multidisciplinary mandate of Corporate Data Intelligence makes great use of the multidisciplinary experience in the EDRM community. Nate deepened the reuse of data after review in a repository scenario with the reuse of search terms and prompts to proactively classify data across an enterprise. The high octave of international practice in this area was also highlighted. Nate ended with his surprising fun fact about the beginnings of his work life, pre-eDiscovery.

Illumination Zone: Episode 218 | Nate Latessa of HaystackID sits down with Mary Mack and Holley Robinson

We detail the top ten groups inside the organization who introduce rogue certificates into IT organizations.

Root Causes 555: Perpretrators of Rogue Certificates

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Security Management Highlights brings the security professional expert interviews and information on the most critical industry topics. Join host Brendan Howard as he interviews thought leaders and industry professionals, as well as editors from the magazine.

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Here’s a little story about a trio of janitors. 
Might have heard they worked at a well-known film school.
They picked up a few things other than trash. 
They might hate your movie, or if drunk think it’s cool.
Every now and then they get together for a lunch break. 
Trash talk some movie, or TV, or streaming.
Rodney and Jason and Sean – they all clean halls. 
If you listen close you can hear kids screaming: Film School Janitors!

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At your local top-tier film-and-TV school, these three lurk the halls… sweeping… scrubbing…mopping…

What you drop, they pick up.  But that’s not all they’re picking up.

You see, after twenty years of cleaning up after film students, they’ve learned something – most movies are garbage.

So whenever their lunch breaks align, they catch up on the latest Hollywood has to offer.

In between taking out the trash, they’re talking trash.

Rodney – Sean – Jason… They are The Film School Janitors

Digital certificate industry veterans Tim Callan and Jason Soroko explore the issues surrounding digital identity, PKI, and cryptographic connections in today's dynamic and evolving computing world. Best practices in digital certificates are continually under pressure from technology trends, new laws and regulations, cryptographic advances, and the evolution of our computing architectures to be more virtual, agile, ubiquitous, and cloud-based. Jason and Tim (and the occasional guest subject matter expert) will help you stay current on developments in this essential technology platform and to understand the whys and wherefores of popular Public Key Infrastructures.

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