Techstrong Gang
Techstrong Gang is your go-to weekday show on Techstrong TV and your favorite podcast platform, bringing together a rotating lineup of top thought leaders and technologists to break down the biggest stories and trends shaping the tech world. Hosted by industry veterans Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Mitchell Ashley, Jon Swartz, Lisa Martin, Tracy Ragan, Sulagna Saha, Anne Ahola Ward, Bonnie Schneider, and more, the show dives deep into everything from DevOps and cybersecurity to AI and cloud innovation. Tune in Monday through Friday for insightful discussions, expert analysis, and lively debates on the issues that matter most to today’s tech professionals.
Podcast Description
Techstrong Gang is your go-to weekday show on Techstrong TV and your favorite podcast platform, bringing together a rotating lineup of top thought leaders and technologists to break down the biggest stories and trends shaping the tech world. Hosted by industry veterans Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Mitchell Ashley, Jon Swartz, Lisa Martin, Tracy Ragan, Sulagna Saha, Anne Ahola Ward, Bonnie Schneider, and more, the show dives deep into everything from DevOps and cybersecurity to AI and cloud innovation. Tune in Monday through Friday for insightful discussions, expert analysis, and lively debates on the issues that matter most to today’s tech professionals.
Episodes

May 12, 2026
Techstrong Gang 5/12/2026
May 12, 2026
May 12, 2026
46 min
Apple’s foldable iPhone rumors are getting real, OpenAI is making a major enterprise move with its $4 billion deployment push and Tomoro acquisition, and more than 402,000 internet-reachable AI agent hosts are already exposing a growing new attack surface. Mike Vizard, Chris Blask, Sid Nag, Anne Ahola Ward and Stacey Thayer break down what these stories say about the next phase of AI, enterprise strategy and cybersecurity risk.

May 11, 2026
Techstrong Gang 5/11/2026
May 11, 2026
May 11, 2026
46 min
Today’s Techstrong Gang looks at AI-driven DevOps productivity gains, mounting application security concerns and the latest trends emerging from Mobile Tech Field Day

May 11, 2026
Techstrong Gang 5/8/2026
May 11, 2026
May 11, 2026
47 min
Mike Vizard, Guy Currier, Jack Poller, Tracy Ragan and Wickey Wang break down the overlooked gaps in agent security governance, DXC Technology’s AI platform for automating IT tasks and the rise of decentralized AI infrastructure in residential settings.

May 11, 2026
Techstrong Gang - 5/7/2026
May 11, 2026
May 11, 2026
44 min
Alastair Cooke, Fred Wilmot, Gina Rosenthal, Jon Swartz and Mike Vizard break down Google’s Remy personal agent push, the optical networking buildout powering the AI boom and SAP’s $1.1 billion move into agentic AI. Today’s Techstrong Gang looks at who is trying to control the next layer of the AI stack.

May 6, 2026
Techstrong Gang - 5/6/2026
May 6, 2026
May 6, 2026
42 min
Mike Vizard, Teri Robinson, Jon Swartz and JP Morgenthal break down IBM’s latest AI and quantum computing advances, ServiceNow and NVIDIA’s new Project Arc governance push for autonomous agents and the growing risk of browser extensions acting like spyware. Today’s Techstrong Gang connects quantum, AI governance and covert surveillance risk across the enterprise stack.

May 6, 2026
Techstrong Gang - 5/5/2026
May 6, 2026
May 6, 2026
42 min
Mike Vizard, Chris Blask, Ira Winkler, Kate Scarcella and Camberley Bates break down the proposed three-day patch rule, possible pre-release reviews for advanced AI models and new warnings about chatbot behavior in biological weapon test scenarios. Today’s Techstrong Gang looks at how AI is accelerating the pressure on cybersecurity, national security and public-safety policy.

May 6, 2026
Techstrong Gang - 5/4/2026
May 6, 2026
May 6, 2026
41 min
Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Fred Wilmot, Chris Blask and Gina Rosenthal break down three stories shaping the enterprise AI conversation right now: MIT’s effort to improve how LLMs answer accurately, Salesforce’s push to automate backend office workflows with agentic AI, and rising demand for senior cybersecurity talent as AI raises the stakes for security teams.
The episode starts with AI the Liar, looking at MIT research aimed at making large language models produce more accurate answers. From there, the gang turns to Salesforce’s agentic AI platform, which the company says can automate and modernize fragmented back-office workflows using specialized agents and auditable digital blueprints.
The final segment focuses on cybersecurity hiring pressure. A Fortinet-commissioned survey of 2,750 cybersecurity and IT professionals found that 51% specifically need senior-level skills, 60% say finding cybersecurity talent with AI experience is their top security challenge and 87% expect to increase cybersecurity team size.
From model trust to workflow automation to the cyber skills gap, today’s show tracks where enterprise AI is creating both opportunity and strain.
#TechstrongGang #AI #Salesforce #Cybersecurity #AgenticAI

May 6, 2026
Techstrong Gang - 5/1/2026
May 6, 2026
May 6, 2026
44 min
Hyperscalers may spend $725 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, but Kubernetes utilization remains weak, GPU inference is becoming the next cloud sprawl problem and agentic AI is opening new security risks. Today’s Techstrong Gang connects the dots across AI spending, knowledge graphs and Security Field Day 15. Jon Swartz, Mike Vizard and Stephen Foskett break down what it all means for enterprise tech.

Apr 30, 2026
Techstrong Gang - 4/30/2026
Apr 30, 2026
Apr 30, 2026
47 min
Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Fred Wilmot, Chris Blask and Gina Rosenthal break down three stories shaping the enterprise AI conversation right now: MIT’s effort to improve how LLMs answer accurately, Salesforce’s push to automate backend office workflows with agentic AI, and rising demand for senior cybersecurity talent as AI raises the stakes for security teams.
The episode starts with AI the Liar, looking at MIT research aimed at making large language models produce more accurate answers. From there, the gang turns to Salesforce’s agentic AI platform, which the company says can automate and modernize fragmented back-office workflows using specialized agents and auditable digital blueprints.
The final segment focuses on cybersecurity hiring pressure. A Fortinet-commissioned survey of 2,750 cybersecurity and IT professionals found that 51% specifically need senior-level skills, 60% say finding cybersecurity talent with AI experience is their top security challenge and 87% expect to increase cybersecurity team size.
From model trust to workflow automation to the cyber skills gap, today’s show tracks where enterprise AI is creating both opportunity and strain.
#TechstrongGang #AI #Salesforce #Cybersecurity #AgenticAI

Apr 30, 2026
Techstrong Gang - 4/29/2026
Apr 30, 2026
Apr 30, 2026
40 min
Jon Swartz, Chris Blask, Andi Mann and Teri Robinson break down three stories that show how quickly AI is colliding with real-world risk: a Cursor/Claude-powered coding agent tied to a Railway production data-loss scare, the Trump administration’s push to use AI to modernize air traffic planning, and the FBI-led takedown of the W3LL phishing-kit ecosystem tied to more than $20 million in attempted fraud.
The first segment looks at what happens when agentic coding tools get too much power in production. Reports say the PocketOS incident involved deletion of a production database and recent backups after an AI agent used a destructive Railway API path; Railway later recovered service quickly and patched the endpoint, but the episode exposed major questions around permissions, rollback design and human oversight.
The second segment turns to aviation. The FAA’s broader modernization push includes new software intended to improve airspace management and reduce disruption, while SMART-style planning tools are being positioned as a move from reactive to predictive operations. That raises the obvious question: where should AI sit inside a safety-critical system, and who owns accountability when predictive systems shape operational decisions?
The final segment focuses on phishing at industrial scale. The FBI says the W3LL phishing kit was sold for about $500, helped criminals impersonate trusted login pages, captured credentials and session data to bypass MFA, and was tied to over $20 million in attempted fraud; investigators also say W3LLSTORE facilitated sales of more than 25,000 compromised accounts from 2019 to 2023.
#TechstrongGang #AI #Cybersecurity #AIAgents #Phishing







