Heads of state, Fortune 500 CEOs, Adam Lambert, Ayra Starr, and Hugh Jackman shared the stage at Global Citizen NOW 2026 — but the real story was the discipline: almost nothing got said without a number behind it. Lens Four works through the outcomes the event put on the table, and the quietest announcement of the day — a pilot to trace every donated dollar from gift to ground with AI and blockchain.
Jun 1
10 min
Healthcare is one of the most attacked systems in cybersecurity, and the people defending it are saving lives just as surely as the EMT racing through traffic. Sean Martin sits down with Gil Bashe to examine where information, AI, and human leadership intersect in a system that still runs on fax machines and ransom payments.
Jun 1
31 min
Marco Ciappelli interviews Geoff White, investigative journalist and author, for An Analog Brain In A Digital Age Podcast.
Geoff White goes where organized crime and technology cross, and he comes back with stories. In this one he announces his newest BBC series — the rise and fall of the Conti ransomware gang — and we get into the thing underneath all of it: how you make a crime nobody can see feel real to people who will never see it.
May 24
29 min
Once the badges come off, the signal sharpens. Tony Anscombe joins from the other side of RSAC Conference 2026 to unpack what the week actually meant for agentic AI, community, and a cybersecurity industry that keeps circling back to the same first principles.
May 23
7 min
Cybersecurity assurance is failing the people who depend on it most, and the third annual HITRUST Trust Report makes the case that measurable, validated assurance is the only way out. Vincent Bennekers walks through the data behind a 99.62% breach-free rate, why none of the top fifty healthcare breaches happened in HITRUST-certified environments, and the five-step roadmap stakeholders should follow to close the trust gap.
May 23
16 min
Two U.S. banks disclosed a breach at the same unnamed third-party vendor in April 2026, with six class action lawsuits in two weeks. A regulatory clock about to start at suspicion, an NYDFS letter telling covered entities exactly what to do, and an insurance underwriter asking the same questions — Lens Four works through what the disclosure language is leaving out and what carries a CISO through the moment a vendor they cannot control fails on their watch.
May 11
12 min
Dr. Polanski, a postdoctoral researcher at Lowell Observatory, explains how scientists at Lowell are carrying on that legacy, providing education and outreach to the Artemis Generation!
May 11
35 min
PODCAST EPISODE | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
Pablos Holman has built spaceships, zapped malaria-carrying mosquitoes with a laser, earned thousands of patents, and is now betting his venture capital on the inventors Silicon Valley forgot to fund. His new book, *Deep Future: Creating Technology That Matters*, is a call to arms against a tech industry that got drunk on software and forgot about the other 98% of the world.
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May 4
40 min
When ten or more AI agents are acting on your behalf across email, code, and customer data, identity tells you who they are but not what they should be allowed to do. This Brand Highlight unpacks how enterprises are moving from blanket access to job-scoped agent personas, and why that shift defines the next phase of safe agentic AI adoption.
May 4
8 min
Mama duck had two daughters, and she loved taking them on trips to faraway places. The two ducklings had few friends, but they often went out and about. They played in the farmyard pretending to be a group, and even on their birthday, they ate the big cake all by themselves.
As a gift, Mama decided to take them on a cruise to Mars. She organized the trip on a spaceship for tourists, got tickets for an intergalactic Martian party, and departure as soon as possible — before you could say "quack quack."
Apr 29
7 min
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