68 min
AI & Agents
Security & Identity
Founder Stories
Episode 12: Founders, Fraud, and the Future of AI with Joshua Mckenty
68 min
Joshua McKenty—legendary cloud architect, OpenStack co-founder, and now CEO of Polyguard—joins us for a no-fluff, high-impact conversation on innovating inside NASA, scaling SaaS from scratch (and from the edge), fighting synthetic identity fraud with AI, and why trust, privacy, and infrastructure are converging in 2025.
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Timestamps
00:00Intro: Identity, Security & the AI Shift05:12Why All Cybersecurity Is an Identity Problem10:43The Internet's Original Sin: Anonymity vs Accountability15:10Remote Hiring Fraud & North Korea Sanctions19:33How Polyguard AI Verifies Identity in Video & Remote Hiring24:00SaaS, Privacy Trade-offs & User Data Vulnerabilities29:12AI Agents, Identity Delegation & the New Trust Crisis34:40Beyond OAuth: Scoped Tokens & Chain of Trust39:26Why Blockchain Can't Solve Identity44:15Centralized Identity: Nation States vs Big Tech vs Polyguard AI49:05Agent-Based Commerce & Real-World Identity53:30What We Learned from AI This Week (Tools & Trends)59:48Cloud Code, Cursor & Spec-First AI Development1:04:00Closing: MCP, Agents & Polyguard AI's Role in the Future