The Perplexity Playbook for Modern CISOs

Ransomware vs AI Rulebooks: The 2026 Double Bind for Healthcare and Finance

Healthcare and financial services are in a 2026 double bind: ransomware shuts down hospitals and exposes millions of accounts while regulators roll out strict new AI rulebooks. In this episode of The Circuit, you learn how recent attacks in both sectors connect to the US Treasury’s Financial Services AI Risk Management Framework and emerging healthcare AI expectations, and you walk away with a focused 90 day plan to align cyber, vendor risk, and AI governance before attackers and supervisors force your hand. Follow - The Circuit with Trevor Wiseman — AI governance, cybersecurity & business translation, no jargon. 👉 Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-circuit-7203212621104185345/ [https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-circuit-7203212621104185345/] 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vpoftech/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/vpoftech/] Trevor Wiseman is Principal Consultant at The Circuit LLC, focused on AI governance, cybersecurity, and business alignment. He brings 25 years of experience in technology, leading IT teams, cybersecurity, and AI initiatives.

The Perplexity Playbook for Modern CISOs

In today's episode, we learn how today's cybersecurity leaders can cut through the endless noise of newsletters and alerts using sourced research and agent workflows. This episode explores how Perplexity verifies and expands your external view, perfectly complementing internal drafting tools like Claude. We break down Perplexity's core modes—Standard, Deep Research, Model Council, and Computer—and walk you through the five essential weekly workflows every CISO needs to adopt: threat landscape briefings, vendor due diligence, regulation gap analysis, current awareness monitoring, and decision verification pipelines. Follow - The Circuit with Trevor Wiseman — AI governance, cybersecurity & business translation, no jargon. 👉 Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-circuit-7203212621104185345/ [https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-circuit-7203212621104185345/] 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vpoftech/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/vpoftech/] Trevor Wiseman is Principal Consultant at The Circuit LLC, focused on AI governance, cybersecurity, and business alignment. He brings 25 years of experience in technology, leading IT teams, cybersecurity, and AI initiatives.

The Claude Co-Pilot: 7 Workflows to Reclaim Your Week

Are planning, analysis, and documentation eating up your entire week?. In this episode, we explore how tech leaders and CISOs can gain 2–3x more output without adding headcount by leveraging Claude as an operations co-pilot. We break down a highly effective 6-part prompt pattern—comprising Role, Context, Task, Constraints, Output Format, and Quality Check—that forces structure and cuts out the fluff. Listen in as we walk through seven essential weekly workflows you can implement immediately. Follow - The Circuit with Trevor Wiseman — AI governance, cybersecurity & business translation, no jargon. 👉 Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-circuit-7203212621104185345/ [https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-circuit-7203212621104185345/] 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vpoftech/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/vpoftech/] Trevor Wiseman is Principal Consultant at The Circuit LLC, focused on AI governance, cybersecurity, and business alignment. He brings 25 years of experience in technology, leading IT teams, cybersecurity, and AI initiatives.

AI Did the Outreach. Humans Absorbed the Damage.

Your AI sales tools are working. They are also making sure certain buyers will never work with you. I watched a seven-step sales process collapse to three with the right AI deployment. I also watched one bad automated outreach guarantee a lost customer for life. Both happened at the same company. In today's episode I break down what separates the two. Follow - The Circuit with Trevor Wiseman — AI governance, cybersecurity & business translation, no jargon. 👉 Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-circuit-7203212621104185345/ [https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-circuit-7203212621104185345/] 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vpoftech/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/vpoftech/] Trevor Wiseman is Principal Consultant at The Circuit LLC, focused on AI governance, cybersecurity, and business alignment. He brings 25 years of experience in technology, leading IT teams, cybersecurity, and AI initiatives.

AI Is Coming for Your Job Description, Not Your Job

Salesforce cut 4,000 support workers last year because AI was doing half the work. Amazon dropped 14,000 corporate roles and called it "leaner structures." Meanwhile, the World Economic Forum says AI will create 170 million new jobs by 2030. So which is it? Mass extinction or mass opportunity? Neither. The answer depends entirely on what you do in the next 18 months. In this week's edition of The Circuit I break down AI's real impact across 10 professional fields, what's actually at risk, and the one shift that separates the people who get displaced from the people who get promoted. Follow - The Circuit with Trevor Wiseman — AI governance, cybersecurity & business translation, no jargon. 👉 Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-circuit-7203212621104185345/ [https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-circuit-7203212621104185345/] 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vpoftech/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/vpoftech/] Trevor Wiseman is Principal Consultant at The Circuit LLC, focused on AI governance, cybersecurity, and business alignment. He brings 25 years of experience in technology, leading IT teams, cybersecurity, and AI initiatives.