Autonomous IT, Live! Turn to Face the StrAInge, Patch Speed vs AI Attacks, E08
In April, Jason Kikta and Dmitri Alperovitch landed on a structural conclusion: AI had collapsed patch-to-exploit time to under an hour, 1-10-60 was no longer fast enough, and the only answer was prev...
25 Aug 42min
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Patch [FIX] Tuesday – [Race Conditions, Registry Hives, and Cloud CVEs], Ep. 35
August 2026 delivers the second-largest Patch Tuesday on record with nearly 400 CVEs, and Landon Miles, Jason Kikta, and Serena DiPenti sort out which ones actually matter. They start with the only ac...
11 Aug 22min
Secure IT – PKI, Certificates, and What Breaks When Trust Fails, E22
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) underpins nearly every secure interaction in modern IT, but it's also one of the most misunderstood and overlooked foundations of security.In this episode of Secure IT,...
22 Jul 17min
Patch [FIX] Tuesday – [The 570-CVE Month], Ep. 34
570 vulnerabilities. That's July's Patch Tuesday count, nearly triple last month and a record by a wide margin. Jason Kikta is joined by host Landon Miles and offensive-security researcher Serena DiPe...
14 Jul 29min
Executive IT – What IT hiring actually looks like when AI does the work, E07
Eighteen months after the Hands-On IT podcast tackled the state of IT careers, Chelsea Rickey, SVP of Human Resources at Automox, comes back to the conversation to assess what held up, what changed, a...
1 Jul 15min
Product Talk – CISA's BOD 26-04 Directive Explained, E26
CISA's BOD 26-04 replaces severity-based patching with an exploit-evidence model and remediation clocks as short as three days, fleet-wide, no exceptions. Peter Pflaster and Jason Kikta unpack the fou...
11 Jun 27min
Patch [FIX] Tuesday – [Nothing Weaponized, Everything Exposed], E33
June 2026 has no headliner. Instead of one critical bug, the release spreads thin across the kernel, the network stack, a code editor, an AI assistant, a bootloader, and a nine-year-old Linux root bug...
9 Jun 23min
Patch [FIX] Tuesday – [AI Hits the Hat Trick], Ep. 32
The May 2026 Microsoft Patch Tuesday release looks quiet on the surface – no actively exploited zero-days, no public disclosures at release, and a CVE count below the four-month average. Don't let tha...
12 Mai 34min
