The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast #287 - No Going Back: AI Redefines SecOps for Service Providers (MSSP) with a panel of computer scientists and security practitioners
In this special episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, a panel of cybersecurity experts discuss the irreversible changes AI has brought to the industry. This panel originally aired on January 20th, 2026.
The panel attendees include:
- Christopher Luft (host) - Co-Founder / CCO, LimaCharlie
- Maxime Lamothe-Brassard - Founder / CEO, LimaCharlie
- Eric Capuano - Co-Founder, Digital Defense Institute
- Joshua Neil - Co-Founder, Alpha Level
- Kris Merritt - Advisor
- Daniel Lees - Sr Staff Cloud Security Architect, Google
LimaCharlie has watched the AI SOC conversation unfold and stayed quiet. Until now.
Security vendors are racing to attach chatbots to legacy platforms and call it innovation. AI SOC startups have raised hundreds of millions to build better alert triage. Both approaches solve the same narrow problem: helping analysts click faster.
Service providers managing hundreds or thousands of tenants face a different reality. Alert triage matters, but so does deployment, configuration, detection engineering, reporting, and onboarding. The tedious work that eats margin and slows growth spans the entire operation.
What if AI could operate your entire security infrastructure with the same access as your best analyst?
We built LimaCharlie for complete programmatic access from day one. we were building for AI operators before AI operators existed. On January 20th, we'll show you what happens when AI agents can do everything in a security platform, across every tenant, through natural language.
No marketing theater. Just real conversations and a demonstration of AI-driven security operations where you stay in control.
Learn more at https://limacharlie.io/