
Security Confidential · 2026-05-06 · 49 min
#SecurityConfidential #DarkRhiinoSecurityAndy Smith is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tracebit, a cybersecurity company building deception technology that deploys security canaries across cloud infrastructure, identity platforms, and SaaS environments to detect breaches with high fidelity. Before founding Tracebit, Andy was Head of Engineering at Tessian, where firsthand exposure to a widespread supply chain incident affecting thousands of companies sharpened his and Sam's conviction in the "assume breach" philosophy that underpins Tracebit today. Originally from the UK, Andy recently relocated to New York as Tracebit grows its US presence. 00:00 Intro 02:17 Our Guest 03:50 All Defenders get this wrong 06:05 What good does all this technology do? 09:48 My experience with a third party breach 11:30 Deception technologies 18:50 AI is not detecting properly 22:26 What about LLMs? Do they mirror that behavior? 26:30 The Assume breach philosophy 35:38 What makes deployment of deception technology defective? 40:40 Tracking Canaries 47:00 Learn about Tracebit - To learn more about Andy visit learn more about Dark Rhiino Security visit