{"podcast":{"title":"The ITPro Podcast","slug":"the-itpro-podcast-1191840","podcast_index_feed_id":1191840,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-itpro-podcast/","website_url":"https://www.itpro.com/the-it-pro-podcast","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/f191862a-6fce-446c-a2fe-263b169791ae/acad8df3ecb5996fb010a288313b18e7.jpg","author":"ITPro","episode_count":369,"summary":"The ITPro Podcast is a weekly show for technology professionals and business leaders. Each week hosts Rory Bathgate and Jane McCallion are joined by an expert guest to take a deep dive into the most important issues for the IT community. New episodes premiere every Friday. Visit itpro.com/uk/the-it-pro-podcast for more information, or follow ITPro on LinkedIn for regular updates.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-05T20:19:48.484639+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-itpro-podcast-1191840"},"episode":{"title":"SPECIAL EDITION: Mitigating bad bots","slug":"special-edition-mitigating-bad-bots","published_at":"2026-01-26T09:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-itpro-podcast-1191840/special-edition-mitigating-bad-bots","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-itpro-podcast-1191840","url":"https://www.itpro.com/the-it-pro-podcast","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f3c2795f-0e8c-4c50-803a-50fe7dafe32d.mp3?aw_0_1st.showid=f3283fca-ed34-4271-8f7c-301f5c25540b&aw_0_1st.episodeid=f3c2795f-0e8c-4c50-803a-50fe7dafe32d","summary":"One of the major challenges of today’s environments is the rising tide of bots, with generative AI driving a new era of the technology. Bots have been a part of the internet since at least the 1990s but recent technological advancements have swollen their number exponentially. Some of these net dwellers are benign, others are malicious, and some sit somewhere in between. But no matter what category they fall into, they can all cause problems for businesses. How much of an issue is this for businesses and what can they do to mitigate it? In this special discussion, in association with Fastly, Jane speaks to Marshall Irwin, chief information security officer (CISO) at Fastly, to discover more about how organizations can protect themselves from the risks of bots.","meta_description":"One of the major challenges of today’s environments is the rising tide of bots, with generative AI driving a new era of the technology. Bots have been a p…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":960,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-itpro-podcast-1191840/episodes/special-edition-mitigating-bad-bots/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-itpro-podcast-1191840/special-edition-mitigating-bad-bots.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}