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Ryan Davis

Chief Information Security Officer at New Charter Technologies, previously business unit CISO at IBM (NS1) and CISO/interim CIO at Veracode.

Oct 27, 2026

16:58
Ryan, your perspective, are there tools in addition to AI that are evolving and can be part of helping to defend and or disrupt supply chain?
17:09
Yeah, I mean, we've been talking in the information security and IT space for years.
17:18
over a decade on, you know, machine learning and, you know, things like security orchestration and automation, you know, automated response type technologies.
17:29
And I think we're kind of to the next major iteration of that, right? You know, using AI or agents to go and investigate things that, you know, was there value in having a tier one analyst go and look at every phishing email? Well, maybe, especially if somebody clicked it, but now I can have an agent that just does that right and goes and evaluates and gives my analysts back a report in 30 seconds.
18:00
Like, here's what I found.
18:03
I think there's a tremendous number of use cases that As security professionals or even in operations as a whole, there's a kind of a law of diminishing returns on certain activities and behaviors.
18:17
And we've said, you know what, we're going to kind of cast those aside because there's not a lot of value in doing that.

8 MINS LATER

26:25
Dive into the data that you have within your systems and verify, you know, the authenticity of that order.
16:32
From your view, are there any specific trends or techniques that you're seeing that maybe if not keep you up at night, maybe something that you're focused on that you think other people should be focused on?
16:43
I really thought you were going to ask me where I get my security news.
16:46
I was going to be like, what's the 443 podcast about? Thank you.
16:53
Although I heard earlier today that that might have a new name.
16:59
By the way, I really like the new name.
17:02
I can't wait to come back and join you guys for the brand relaunch.
17:08
So things that keep me up at night.

9 MINS LATER

26:19
But so I've got to ask, like, all jokes aside, Are you feeling AI right now is a buzzword or are you actually seeing real productivity gains from it? Maybe inside new charter itself? Is there anywhere where you've been surprised where AI has been a pretty great benefit or maybe somewhere where you think where you thought it would be very helpful, but it wasn't?

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