# max clark (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover max clark. Page: Feed: --- ## [Playbook: Finding the Truth When Everyone Is Lying](https://www.itbroker.com/podcast/playbook-finding-the-truth-when-everyone-is-lying) _2026-08-18 · ITBroker.com · Signed_ Every vendor stretches the truth somewhere in your sales process, and most buyers respond to all of it the same way, forgiving everything or torching a good deal over nothing. In this Playbook, Max Clark sorts vendor lies into three categories, a harmless stretch, one rep's invented promise, and a lie the whole company stands behind, and gives a different response for each. Then he turns the… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/044694f8/6cdedc6a.mp3) ## [Your Security Tool Says You're Protected. Is It Lying?](https://itbroker.com/podcast/your-security-tool-says-youre-protected-is-it-lying) _2026-08-12 · ITBroker.com · Signed_ Your security tool says you're protected. Most of the time nothing is lying to you on purpose. It's just reporting what it was configured to report, whether or not anyone ever checked if that setup was correct in the first place. Zach Stewart, CISO and Director of IT at Steno, spends this conversation walking through exactly where that gap hides, and it's not only the tool. There's the BAA that… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/d2e53b10/de52940a.mp3) ## [Your Security Vendor Can't Tell You If Their Product Works](https://www.itbroker.com/podcast/ai-agents-read-your-site-in-under-1-000-tokens) _2026-08-04 · ITBroker.com · Signed_ Your website is no longer read only by people. Tony Lauro opens this episode with a client whose sequential order numbers let a competitor read their daily volume through a public API. No breach. No alert. Just a number counting up in plain sight. The same blind spot shows up when a product drop gets sniped by bots in seconds, or when the large language models you're exposing to customers and… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/cf47db9a/821ab214.mp3) ## [Playbook: Buying MDR Without Getting Burned](https://www.itbroker.com/podcast/playbook-buying-mdr-without-getting-burned) _2026-07-28 · ITBroker.com · Signed_ Six months before the largest retail breach in U.S. history, Target's threat detection system worked exactly as it was supposed to. It caught the attack. It fired five separate alerts. Then nothing happened, because the system could watch, but it couldn't act. That gap between detecting a threat and stopping it is where most MDR contracts fail their buyers. Max Clark recently evaluated a well… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/62afe07b/59bfde34.mp3) ## [Your Teams Voice Contract Was Built in the Wrong Order](https://www.itbroker.com/podcast/your-teams-voice-provider-isnt-whos-actually-running-your-calls) _2026-07-21 · ITBroker.com · Signed_ Most Teams Voice buying decisions start with carrier pricing. This conversation argues that's backwards. Before comparing price per seat, you need to know who's actually running the infrastructure, what you're locking yourself into, and which risks stay invisible until after deployment. Eric Burton runs National Channel at AudioCodes. He spent two decades selling dial tone on the carrier side… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/cc53c4c3/d85f590c.mp3) ## [Your Developers Already Installed a Black Box Behind Your VPN.](https://www.itbroker.com/podcast/your-developers-already-installed-a-black-box-behind-your-vpn) _2026-07-14 · ITBroker.com · Signed_ Anthropic built Claude Code. Anthropic still couldn't stop its own source code from leaking straight into a competing product. If a coding tool is running behind your VPN right now with full access, this conversation names what that's already costing you. Thomas Cooper is AI Product Lead at Expedient, where he works daily with enterprises building AI governance after the fact, once a tool is… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/cce35414/3ae4e211.mp3) ## [Playbook: The Hidden Bomb in your Contracts](https://www.itbroker.com/podcast/playbook-the-hidden-bomb-in-your-contracts) _2026-07-07 · ITBroker.com · Signed_ The clause that matters most in your vendor contract is usually the one everyone skips. It sits there looking harmless until a patent troll shows up. By then you cannot renegotiate it. In 2025, patent trolls filed more than half of all U.S. patent lawsuits. In high tech, it was over 90%. More than half their targets were companies under $25 million in revenue. They are not chasing Apple. They are… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/06bdd2c4/fd731f00.mp3) ## [Your Vendor Got Acquired. Most Customers Realize the Risk Too Late.](https://www.itbroker.com/podcast/your-vendor-got-acquired-most-customers-realize-the-risk-too-late) _2026-06-30 · ITBroker.com · Signed_ Lumen just announced it's acquiring Alkira. If your network strategy runs through a vendor that just changed hands, or through one that might, this conversation covers what actually happens next. Ali Shakh, CEO of Graphiant, was part of the Viptela founding team when Cisco acquired them. He was in the room for that integration. Prices went up. Not by a little. The customers who got hurt were the… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/78282ce0/2d1bcc9e.mp3) ## [The EDR Was Running. The Ransomware Still Won.](https://www.itbroker.com/podcast/the-edr-was-running-the-ransomware-still-won) _2026-06-23 · ITBroker.com · Signed_ Dave Chronister has been doing penetration testing and incident response since 2007 — back when Fortune 500 CIOs called it a novel concept. In the years since, he's walked into breached environments where the EDR was running, the MDR was installed, the SOC 2 audit had passed, and none of it mattered. This conversation covers the gap between what companies think they bought and what they actually… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/5a9cc705/18c6febd.mp3) ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3USLTkR9eVnB) _2026-06-23 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [Playbook: AI Layoffs](https://www.itbroker.com/podcast/playbook-ai-layoffs) _2026-06-16 · ITBroker.com · Signed_ You've read the post. A CEO goes on LinkedIn. Hard decision. I own this. Because of AI, we'll come out leaner, faster, stronger. Max Clark has written one of these. He's also been on the receiving end of one. In this Playbook, he breaks down what that post actually says — and what it's designed to leave out. Not to indict the people who write them, but to hand you one question: whenever a company… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/5c52a48e/ba8c9595.mp3)