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Aug 17, 2026
243. Cybersecurity in the age of agentic AI
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Isobel ToonHOST
Could you give our listeners a quick introduction to the current shape of the cybersecurity landscape?

David BicknellGUEST
After a difficult 2025 when we had major cyberattacks on retailers and one major automotive manufacturer, this year has taken a turn down the route of AI agents and the fallout from agentic attacks by, first of all, Anthropic with its Mythos model, which caused worries for the banking sector.

David BicknellGUEST
Now, as if emboldened by Anthropic's success in hitting the headlines for its model, if success is the word, now we see OpenAI launching an unprompted attack on Hugging Face.

David BicknellGUEST
It is highly likely that agentic AI will dominate the cybersecurity agenda for the rest of this year.

David BicknellGUEST
Agentic AI amplifies existing cybersecurity risks while also introducing new ones.

David BicknellGUEST
Unlike ransomware attacks, which are relatively well understood in their attack route, agentic AI technologies are unfamiliar and compromised agentic AI tools can be l- used to launch cyberattacks, even ransomware attacks, at a scale that no human threat actors can match.
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Vininspo! Episode 48: David Bicknell, Bicknell F.C.
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31:57Ed MerrisonHOST
So how did that sort of pan out in terms of shaping the business, which has obviously continued, as you say, until very recently under your stewardship to be successful?

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what I learnt about dealing with people and the nursing period and being respectful of everyone.

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Because the wine industry, it can be pretty brutal and pretty hard on people.

David BicknellGUEST
And I've been able to bring that respect for individuals in, even though they're different, and give them the opportunity.

David BicknellGUEST
And that's one of the things that, you know, The number of people who work there and who are well-trained and have gone on and had great careers in winemaking.
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47:46Ed MerrisonHOST
and i think chardonnay in general and i think pinot noir as well has you know i mean everyone acknowledges it's a really tricky grape to get right perhaps it's lagging chardonnay in that regard because it's harder and maybe there are fewer places that can manage it but you've obviously had a lot to do with experimenting in that regard and i know pinot massif for you and your friends has been a hugely proud kind of history because of the I guess the chance that you're throwing in the mix and the vulnerability a little bit in there too, but the collaboration and the sense that you're all in it together and it's really worth it, right? So tell me a little bit about Pinot Noir and the Pinot Massif experience.