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The VergecastAugust 14, 2026

Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam

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Nilay Patel, David Pierce
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August 14, 2026
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This is Advertiser Content from Comcast Business. As cyber threats become more and more machine-based and driven by AI agents, those of us in the cyber defense space, we're having to invest at the same pace. Hi, I'm Chris McFarland, Chief Development Officer at Comcast Business. So when we think about the threat of cybersecurity attacks to businesses, they're just a lot more automated. They have the ability to think. They can scale literally anywhere from 100 to thousands of times faster than a human can. The reality is that today you need to protect every device, every endpoint, every workload that's running on a server, whether it's your own server or in the cloud. This is an area that Comcast Business excels at. We're enabling intelligence-driven defense with integrated visibility, AI-powered threat detection, and automated response capabilities that prioritize, correlate, and contain risks before they escalate. And so it doesn't matter whether you're a small business or a medium-sized business or a really large enterprise.

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The Vergecast
Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam
Hosts: Nilay Patel, David Pierce
Publisher: The Verge