Joel is the Director of Content and a co-founder at Expert Insights; a rapidly growing media company focused on covering cybersecurity solutions.
He’s an experienced journalist and editor with 8 years’ experience covering the cybersecurity space. He’s reviewed hundreds of cybersecurity solutions, interviewed hundreds of industry experts and produced dozens of industry reports read by thousands of CISOs and security professionals in topics like IAM, MFA, zero trust, email security, DevSecOps and more.
He also hosts the Expert Insights Podcast and co-writes the weekly newsletter, Decrypted. Joel is driven to share his team’s expertise with cybersecurity leaders to help them create more secure business foundations.
Articles By: Joel Witts
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Best Secure Browsers For SMBs
We've evaluated the best browser security solutions for small businesses to help lean security and IT teams protect web-based work, prevent data loss, and stop phishing without heavy infrastructure or dedicated security staff.
by Joel Witts
Best Email Spam Filtering Solutions
We reviewed the leading email spam filtering platforms on catch rates, the false positive rates that determine whether legitimate email gets blocked, and how well each handles the phishing and malware payloads hidden in spam campaigns.
by Joel Witts
Best Email Encryption Platforms
We reviewed the leading email encryption platforms on the strength of encryption implementation, the friction they introduce for recipients, and how well the admin controls support compliance and audit requirements.
by Joel Witts
Best Email Security Solutions For MSPs
We reviewed email security platforms built for MSP environments on tenant isolation, white-label options, and the automation that matters most when you are managing security at scale.
by Joel Witts
Best Email Security Solutions For M365
We reviewed 12 email security platforms built for Microsoft 365 environments. The best ones extend native Defender capabilities; the weakest ones duplicate them.
by Craig MacAlpine
Best Email Security For Google Workspace
We reviewed the leading email security platforms built for Google Workspace on how effectively they extend native protection, the depth of BEC detection, and how well they handle threats that arrive through legitimate-looking senders.
by Joel Witts
Best Integrated Cloud Email Security Solutions
We reviewed 10 platforms that sit natively inside cloud email environments. The gap between the strongest and weakest on compromised account detection was significant.
by Joel Witts
Best Security Awareness Training Solutions
We reviewed 11 security awareness training platforms on content engagement, simulation realism, and behavioral change metrics. The best ones show measurable risk reduction; the weakest ones show completion rates.
by Joel Witts
Best Email Security Gateways
We reviewed the leading email security platforms on threat detection coverage, deployment complexity, and how well each handles the full range of attacks targeting business email. Here's what we think organizations should be running.
by Joel Witts
Best DNS Web Filtering Platforms For Business
We reviewed the leading DNS web filtering platforms on the accuracy of threat category classification, policy control granularity, and how well each handles enforcement across remote and off-network devices.
by Joel Witts
Best Email Archiving Solutions For Business
We reviewed the leading email archiving platforms on search performance under large data volumes, retention policy flexibility, and the eDiscovery workflows that legal and compliance teams rely on when records are requested.
by Joel Witts
Supply Chain Breaches Surge 60% To Hit Half Of All Incidents
Verizon’s latest report finds third-party-involved breaches reached 48% of the total this year, after already doubling in the previous edition, with Salesloft Drift cited as a textbook case.
by Alessandro Mascellino
Q&A: Hoxhunt Human Risk Leader David Badanes On Why AI Is Creating A “Perfect Storm” For Phishing
Hoxhunt Human Risk Leader David Badanes discusses the key findings from the 2026 Phishing Trends Report, how AI is creating a "perfect storm" for phishing, and why building a proactive security culture is the best defense against social engineering.
by Joel Witts
KnowBe4: AI Agents Need Their Own Security Awareness Training To Avoid Falling For Phishing Scams
KnowBe4 CISO Advisor Erich Kron discusses why Phishing-as-a-Service is driving 90% of enterprise attacks, and why AI agents will need their own security awareness training.
by Joel Witts
Proofpoint: We Must Build Guardrails For The ‘Agentic Everything’ Era
Proofpoint's Molly McLain Sterling discusses why AI has amplified insider risks at unprecedented scale, how phishing is evolving beyond the inbox, and the tension between AI companies pushing "just let go" and security teams trying to maintain control.
by Joel Witts
Snyk: AI-Generated Code Is Creating 2-10x More Vulnerabilities Per Developer
Snyk's Manoj Nair discusses why malicious AI skills are the new malware, how AI-generated code is driving a 2-10x increase in vulnerabilities, and the rise of agent-driven insider threats.
by Joel Witts
ESET Experts On ‘EDR Killers,’ Supply Chain Blind Spots, And AI Governance
ESET's Head of Threat Research Jean-Ian Boutin and Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe discuss EDR killers, nation-state cyber espionage, why supply chain attacks are more dangerous than organizations realize, and the security challenges of agentic AI.
by Joel Witts
Zscaler: AI Agents Need Zero Trust Too
Zscaler's Deepen Desai discusses the shadow agent crisis, how an OpenClaw bot jumped to a CI/CD pipeline without anyone knowing, why zero trust must extend to AI agents, and ThreatLabz data showing AI adoption approaching a trillion enterprise transactions.
by Joel Witts
Google Cloud: The SOC of the Future Will Have Humans Supporting Agents
Google Cloud's Jon Ramsey discusses the march toward a fully autonomous SOC, why the Dark Web Intelligence agent shows what AI-first security looks like, and why defenders have a structural advantage over attackers.
by Joel Witts
Google Cloud’s Anton Chuvakin: AI Will Favor Defenders in the Long Run
Google Cloud's Dr. Anton Chuvakin explains how shadow AI governance has evolved, the human-in-the-loop debate, and why in the long run, AI will ultimately favor defenders
by Joel Witts
Red Canary: AI Is Helping Adversaries Exploit Blind Spots Before We Can Fix Them
Red Canary VP of Product Marketing Aaron Landgraf discusses the findings of the 2026 Threat Detection Report
by Joel Witts
Vanta: Shadow AI Is Already “Exponentially Bigger” Than Shadow IT Ever Was
Vanta Sr. Director of GRC Khush Kashyap explains how to build AI governance without being a blocker, the CISO burnout paradox, and a scalable answer to human in the loop.
by Joel Witts
Why State Governments Are “Not Ready” For Autonomous AI Threats
Presidio Field CISO Dan Lohrmann on why state and local governments are dangerously behind on AI-driven threats, how federal grant cuts are widening the gap, and why identity should be at the top of the priority list.
by Joel Witts
Q&A: Securonix Field CISO Chris Jacob On How AI Agents Are Reshaping Security Operations
Securonix Field CISO Chris Jacob discusses the biggest challenges facing SOC teams, why identity management is the top attack vector, how agentic AI can reduce analyst burnout, and why AI is becoming the new security perimeter.
by Joel Witts
Q&A: The Browser Is Security’s Biggest Blind Spot – But Also An Opportunity
Island CCO Bradon Rogers discusses why the browser has become the enterprise's biggest security gap, how the Enterprise Browser consolidates the security stack, and what AI governance looks like at the last mile.
by Joel Witts
Doppler CEO Amber Britton On Why Secrets Sprawl Is One Of The Biggest Hidden Risks In Cybersecurity
Doppler CEO Amber Britton discusses why secrets sprawl is one of cybersecurity’s biggest hidden risks, how AI agents are reshaping secrets management, and why developer experience is the key to building a more secure future.
by Joel Witts
Eliminating Standing Privileges And The Future Of PAM
Expert Insights interviews Shashwat Sehgal, CEO and Co-Founder of P0 Security.
by Joel Witts
AI Is Creating A Governance Debt Nobody Asked For, Syskit Warns
A Q&A with Microsoft MVP and Co-Founder of Syskit Frane Borozan.
by Joel Witts
Q&A: BlackCloak’s Dr. Chris Pierson On The Escalating Physical Risks of Executive Cyber Exposure
BlackCloak's Dr. Chris Pierson on why healthcare executives are uniquely exposed, and how digital vulnerabilities are becoming physical threats.
by Joel Witts
Interview: Why AI Agents Are Becoming the Enterprise’s Next Major Attack Surface
We spoke to OpenText’s senior vice president of product and engineering, Scott Richards, at the 2025 OpenText World conference in Nashville.
by Mirren McDade
Mike Walters On Building Action1, The Fastest-Growing Private Software Company In The USA
How a laser focus on patching turned Action1 into the fastest-growing private software company in the US.
by Joel Witts
In Conversation With Rajesh Ganesan, CEO at ManageEngine
“Keep Calm and Carry On,” Expert Insights sits down with Rajesh Ganesan, CEO at ManageEngine.
by Joel Witts