
Robin McFarlane
President & CEO of RRMac Associates, LLC, an IT services company specializing in mainframe legacy modernization, DevOps transformation, and enterprise change management.
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Aug 10, 2026
Three interviews: system fragility, operational clarity, and Identity for AI agents - Robin Macfarlane, Kyle Sandy, Todd Thiemann - ESW #471
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Adrian SanabriaHOST
... you know, depending on how many third parties you have and how critical they are to, uh, your business running, your, your data not getting, uh, you know, permanently erased, uh, you know, you, you could still be in some pretty hot water.

Robin MacfarlaneGUEST
And I guess with all of the checks and balances and everything we have today, which is more than what we had before, I see more and more of these little incidents as you're talking about, third party or who else is in your network or who's your provider, where their due diligence isn't as good as your due diligence, and you assume that, and then you wind up being hurt by it.

Robin MacfarlaneGUEST
And as I said, we're assuming technology is gonna take care of it, and we're not doing our own due diligence to check that, and that's the thing that concerns me.

Robin MacfarlaneGUEST
We do software audits, security audits, and everybody's taking the classes, and everybody's doing what they're supposed to be doing on paper, but you can see it.
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Three interviews: system fragility, operational clarity, and Identity for AI agents - Todd Thiemann, Robin Macfarlane, Kyle Sandy - ESW #471
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Robin MacfarlaneGUEST
What is the methodology in the company? And like I say, I mean, I'm an old dinosaur.
Three interviews: system fragility, operational clarity, and Identity for AI agents - Robin Macfarlane, Kyle Sandy, Todd Thiemann - ESW #471
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Adrian SanabriaHOST
Yeah, so before we go much further, we should explain what the mattress money principle is and maybe give an example of where you can apply that principle.

Robin MacfarlaneGUEST
Okay, so the mattress money principle came out of a conversation that I was having with friends and family.

Robin MacfarlaneGUEST
And it was around technology a little bit that, you know, growing up with technology and watching technology evolve as we were talking about you and I earlier it's you know it was always in the background nobody knew it was there especially in the 60s 70s and 80s until even Nintendo and things like that came out and then cell phones and then Now, intelligent phones and the average consumer wasn't relying on technology.

Robin MacfarlaneGUEST
And now today, everywhere you look, everyone is using a phone or they're using a tablet to do their daily life.
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