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  <title>EP268 Weaponizing the Administrative Fabric: Cloud Identity and SaaS Compromise in M Trends 2026</title>
  <description>Guests:  Kelli Vanderlee, Senior Manager, Threat Analysis, Mandiant, Google Cloud Scott Runnels, Mandiant Incident Response, Google Cloud  &amp;amp;nbsp;Topics:  Do we need to rethink &amp;quot;Mean Time to Respond&amp;quot; entirely, or are we just in deep trouble? Why are threat groups collaborating so well, and are there actual lessons for defenders in their &amp;quot;business&amp;quot; model? What is the scalable advice for teams worried about voice phishing and GenAI cloning? What does &amp;quot;weaponizing the administrative fabric&amp;quot; actually mean in a world where identity is the perimeter? Why is identity/SaaS compromise &amp;quot;news&amp;quot; in 2026 when cloud security folks have been shouting about it for years? What actually changed? What’s the latest in supply chain compromise, particularly regarding malicious open-source packages? How do we defend against malware that is &amp;quot;lazy&amp;quot; enough to use the victim’s own AI tools for reconnaissance? What is the specific advice for Detection and Response (D&amp;amp;amp;R) teams to handle &amp;quot;living off the land&amp;quot; (or &amp;quot;living off the cloud&amp;quot;)? How do you fix the situation when IT and Security departments genuinely hate each other? Besides reading the report, what is the one book or piece of advice for a CISO to survive this year?  Resources:  Video version M-Trends 2026 Report  EP222 From Post-IR Lessons to Proactive Security: Deconstructing Mandiant M-Trends  EP254 Escaping 1990s Vulnerability Management: From Unauthenticated Scans to AI-Driven Mitigation  EP205 Cybersecurity Forecast 2025: Beyond the Hype and into the Reality  EP147 Special: 2024 Security Forecast Report  “The Evolution of Cooperation” book  </description>
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