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🎉 New Episode "The Oldest Con, the Newest Tools"
An Interview with Sarah Armstrong-Smith
Recorded On Location At Infosecurity Europe 2026

Marco Ciappelli interviews Sarah Armstrong-Smith, former Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft and Executive Director of Secure Horizons, for An Analog Brain In A Digital Age — On Location at #InfoSecurityEurope2026.

Part of the On Location Coverage of InfoSecurity Europe 2026 with Sean Martin And Marco Ciappelli

If you've ever wondered why we keep spending more on cybersecurity and keep losing, this conversation is for you.

I sat down with Sarah Armstrong-Smith — former Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft, now Executive Director of Secure Horizons — and she said the quiet part plainly: whatever we're doing isn't working. More tools, more money, more AI, and it keeps getting worse. Attack, wake-up call, attack, wake-up call. How many do we need?

There's a con called the Spanish Prisoner. It's four hundred years old, and it's the same email in your spam folder today. The tools change. The prehistoric brain they exploit does not. That's why this was never only an IT problem.

One statistic, then: nearly half of all UK crime is now #fraud or #cyber, and about 1% of policing is pointed at it. We fund what we can see. The crime that empties our accounts happens where we've agreed not to look.

Episode is live.

— Marco

🥁 🎶 A very big THANK YOU to our Infosecurity Europe 2026 Full Coverage Sponsors: Corelight · Qualys · Sumo Logic 👏 👏 👏

#AnAnalogBrainInADigitalAge #Podcast #Cybersecurity #tech #technology #humanity #infosec Studio C60 / ITSPmagazine

https://youtu.be/f5hOOhyZrrE

🎉 New Episode of An Analog Brain In A Digital Age Podcast

If you've ever felt — for whatever reason — that the US healthcare system isn't quite working the way it should, this conversation is for you.

Forty years in healthcare. Combat medic. Pharmaceutical lobbyist. CEO. Father of a child with a rare disease. Gil Bashe, Chair of Global Health & Purpose at FINN Partners, has seen the system from every angle. And after all of it, he wrote the #book that needed to be written: Healing the Sick Care System: Why People Matter.

I'll admit — this one was personal for me. I'm type 1 diabetic. I know what it feels like to sit across from a doctor who never looks up from the laptop. Who tells you what you already know and calls it care.

The US spends 18.7% of GDP on health.
Italy spends a fraction of that. Italy lives longer.
We don't have a money problem. We have a mission problem.

Full conversation and article — link below.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-book-healing-sick-care-system-why-people-matter-gil-ciappelli-b57tc 

— Marco

#AnAnalogBrainInADigitalAge #Podcast #Healthcare Studio C60 / ITSPmagazine Sean Martin

I walked through #Florence once and the whole city felt like an argument I couldn't counter.

It's built from sustainable materials. It's still standing after 2,000 years. And it's one of the most beautiful places on earth. Nobody sacrificed comfort or beauty to build it. They just built with what the land could support and what time could hold.

Tom Chi — Google X founding member, inventor of 77 patents, and now a venture capitalist betting on a regenerative economy — had the same experience. It became the seed of his new book, #Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future.

We spent an hour talking about what that means in practice. A few things that stayed with me: 90% of the cost structure of physical businesses already aligns economic and ecological goals. Less material used = lower costs + less extraction. Less energy = lower processing costs + fewer emissions. The economy and the planet are already pointing the same direction. The 5% that isn't aligned is what the lobbyists fight about — which is why that's all we ever hear.

And then the phrase I can't shake: cognitive despoiling. We spent the 20th century strip mining the physical resources of the planet. Tom thinks we're spending the 21st century strip mining the cognitive resources of humanity — burning through attention, trust, and clear thinking the same way we burned through forests and rivers. The damage is invisible. But it compounds.

This is not a doom-and-gloom conversation. It's a design conversation. And the design problem, Tom argues, is solvable.

Episode is live. marcociappelli.com

— Marco

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-book-climate-capital-investing-tools-regenerative-marco-ciappelli-dnqnc

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