Stop Defending the Edge: How to Rethink Your Mobile Security with Jared Shepard

What if the biggest risk to your organization isn't the device that gets lost, but the data that lives on it? Ron Eddings sits down with Jared Shepard, Founder and CEO of Hypori, whose path ran from homeless high school dropout to Army infantry to building a company that rethinks mobile security from the ground up.

Jared makes the case for something more radical than most vendors will admit: stop defending the edge device entirely, and make sure sensitive data never lands there in the first place. He and Ron cover MDM and MAM's blind spots, executive protection, and the shadow AI habits quietly becoming every security leader's next headache.

The episode also lands at a tense moment for the defense industrial base with the Pentagon having just paused third party CMMC assessments, now putting the burden of proof back on self attestation. If you're still trusting the edge device to protect you, this episode is your wake up call.

Impactful Moments

00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - Hack The Headlines: Top new from around the industry 07:30 - Meet Jared Shepard, founder and CEO of Hypori 10:00 - What Hypori does and how it started 15:40 - MDM vs. MAM: why both miss the real problem 18:45 - Shadow AI and the security habits practitioners can't ignore 20:30 - Collapsing the attack surface and bringing back BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) 22:40 - The 4-gigabit-speed "parlor trick" that proves the Cloud beats your device 25:20 - What the 60-day CMMC pause really changes (and what it doesn't) 29:20 - China, stolen tech, and the rise of AI models like Mythos 36:00 - Closing the loop on the CMMC pause

Links Connect with Jared Shepard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shepardj

Learn more about Hypori: https://hypori.com

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