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Keep Calm and Secure AI: A Chat with Field Effect's CEO Matt Holland

Podcast: Cybersecurity Today · David Shipley

Opublikowano: 2026-10-02

Host David Shipley interviews Field Effect CEO Matt Holland about how AI coding agents can behave like malware and why visibility into their actions is essential. Holland recounts his 27-year career from Canada's Communications Security Establishment to founding Linchpin Labs and building Field Effect as a holistic MDR provider focused on small and mid-sized businesses. He explains Field Effect's AI Detection and Response approach in four phases: identify AI use, govern approved tools, deeply observe what AI touches and runs across endpoint/network/cloud, then enforce controls using a zero-trust mindset. He cites tests where...