The infrastructure behind enterprise AI runs on trust.

Sep 10, 2026

Securing AI Agents at Machine Speed: Building Trust Through Segmentation

AI agents are accelerating application development, but the infrastructure and security teams supporting them are struggling to keep pace. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Erez Tadmor, Field CTO at Tufin, to ex...

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Ep 111 · Aug 27, 2026 · 24 min

Building the Reference Architecture for AI-Enabled Security Operations

As AI drives cyberattacks to machine speed, traditional Security Operations Centers can no longer rely on human response alone. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis and Peter Campbell, Security Researcher & Agentic AI Working Gro...

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Ep 110 · Aug 20, 2026 · 25 min

Reimagining the NOC: Building the Path to Autonomous Infrastructure

In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis and Peter Campbell, ONUG’s Security Researcher & Agentic AI Working Groups Lead, take an inside look at ONUG Collaborative’s Autonomous Infrastructure Working Group and its emerging reference...

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Ep 109 · Aug 13, 2026 · 27 min

Inside ONUG’s Collaborative Working Groups: Building the Future of Enterprise AI

In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis and Peter Campbell, Security Researcher & Agentic AI Working Groups Lead at ONUG, provide an inside look at ONUG Collaborative's newly launched Working Groups and the practitioner-led process...

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Ep 108 · Aug 12, 2026 · 46 min

Why Container Networking Is the Foundation of AI Infrastructure

This episode is part of a seven-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes released each month. Containers have quietly become the foundation of modern AI i...

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Ep 107 · Jul 23, 2026 · 10 min

The View From Here: The Enterprise AI Power Shift

Two forces are colliding, and by fall they'll reshape how enterprise IT operates and spends. In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis shares his perspective on the trends converging across the ONUG community. He explains...

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Ep 106 · Jul 16, 2026 · 54 min

From Complexity to Consumption: Rethinking Enterprise Networking

The campus and branch network hasn't fundamentally changed since the 1990s. Shashi Kiran thinks that's the biggest liability sitting inside enterprise IT. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Shashi Kiran, CMO of N...

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Ep 105 · Jul 9, 2026 · 9 min

The View From Here: Why Enterprise Operations Will Never Be the Same

The next era of enterprise infrastructure won't be defined by AI alone. It will be defined by how organizations adapt to operating it. In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis shares his perspective on the changes reshapi...

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Ep 104 · Jun 25, 2026 · 27 min

Fighting AI with AI: Security, Governance, and the Future of the Enterprise

Cyber is the one disruption FedEx Freight can't route around. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Michael Milligan, CISO of FedEx Freight, to discuss how AI is reshaping enterprise security from the boardroom to t...

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Ep 103 · Jun 18, 2026 · 54 min

The Summer of Turbulence: How AI Is Rewriting Infrastructure Operations

This episode is part of a seven-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes released each month. Networking is entering its "summer of turbulence." Frontier...

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Ep 102 · Jun 11, 2026 · 24 min

AI Changed the Network: Inside the Ethernet Fabric Powering AI Infrastructure

AI is pushing networking into territory it has never seen before. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Hasan Siraj, Vice President of Products at Broadcom, to talk about how AI workloads are rewriting the rules of...

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Ep 101 · Jun 4, 2026 · 26 min

Hybrid AI Infrastructure and the Rise of Non-Human Identity

Agents don't log in. They connect. And that changes everything about access control. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Tom Gillis of Cisco and Robert Kim of Presidio to discuss hybrid AI infrastructure and the o...

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Ep 100 · May 28, 2026 · 28 min

The Token Economy: eBay’s Build vs. Buy Playbook for AI

eBay has been running its own private cloud for decades. So when AI spending started accelerating, the calculus didn't change. It got more complicated. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with John Feldmeier, CIO at eB...

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Ep 99 · May 21, 2026 · 35 min

From Observability to Reasoning: How AI Is Transforming Network Operations

Traditional tools can detect problems. They can’t reason about them. That gap is becoming one of the biggest challenges in enterprise network operations. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with David Mann, Global Serv...

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Ep 98 · May 7, 2026 · 44 min

Who Let All the Agents In? Securing the Agentic Era

This episode is part of a six-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes released each month. AI agents don't have passwords, MFA tokens, or biometrics. The...

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Ep 97 · May 5, 2026 · 41 min

Mythos and the Coming Patch Storm: Are You Ready?

When an AI model can discover and exploit decades-old vulnerabilities in hours, enterprise security changes fast. In this episode, Nick Lippis is joined by Peter Campbell, Senior Director of Cloud Security at Cigna, and Dev Awasthi, AI Secu...

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Ep 96 · Apr 30, 2026 · 46 min

Rethinking IT Operations: The $250 Billion Problem AI Is About to Fix

Enterprise IT operations have long scaled by adding people. L1 teams, offshore support, and manual response became the norm. But as infrastructure grows more complex and fast-moving, that model is breaking. In this episode of the Built for...

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Ep 95 · Apr 23, 2026 · 13 min

The View From Here: The Infrastructure Ceiling Holding Enterprise AI Back

In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis shares findings from a recent ONUG community survey of senior practitioners managing large-scale, regulated enterprise infrastructure. The results paint a clear picture: the hype a...

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Ep 94 · Apr 16, 2026 · 46 min

Programmable Silicon to Drive Cisco AI Networking Innovations

This episode is part of a six-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes released each month. AI infrastructure is entering a new phase, and the shift start...

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Ep 93 · Apr 9, 2026 · 44 min

Rethinking the Network for AI at the Edge

As AI moves beyond the data center into real-world environments, the network is being pushed into entirely new territory. In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis speaks with Allwyn Sequeira, CEO of Highway 9 Networks, ab...

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Ep 92 · Apr 2, 2026 · 35 min

AI for Networking & Networking for AI: Both Are Big Markets

As AI reshapes enterprise infrastructure, most conversations focus on models, agents, and applications. But beneath it all, the network is being fundamentally redefined. In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis speaks wit...

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Ep 91 · Mar 26, 2026 · 47 min

Meet Todd Nightingale, Co-President at Arista for a discussion on Enterprise AI Infrastructure Build

AI is moving fast, but most enterprises are still trying to answer a fundamental question: should you build your own AI infrastructure or buy it? In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis speaks with Todd Nightingale, from...

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Ep 90 · Mar 19, 2026 · 42 min

Microservices, AI Agents and the Telemetry Explosion

Modern applications generate more operational data than ever before. Microservices architectures, cloud infrastructure, and rapid development cycles have created a world where systems emit massive volumes of logs, metrics, and traces, often...

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Ep 89 · Mar 12, 2026 · 21 min

The View From Here: Agentic AI will not Happen at Enterprise Scale; Unless…

Agentic AI is rapidly moving from experimentation to real enterprise deployments. As organizations begin running hundreds or even thousands of AI agents across hybrid environments, the challenge becomes how to govern them safely at scale. I...

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