Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Building AI agents that can think, act, and adapt securely isn't easy. From prompt design to deployment, every stage brings new challenges and new risks. In this session, Bar-El Tayouri, Head of Mend AI at Mend.io, and Yehoshua (Shuki) Cohen, VP of Data and AI Evangelist at AI21 Labs, shared practical strategies for designing and defending agentic systems that actually deliver. Key topics covered: Originally recorded: October 29, 2024.

Are AI systems replacing security roles? Maybe not the way most people assume. AI isn't eliminating architects — it's augmenting them. Architects sit at the strategic layer: influence, prioritization, long-term posture. AI’s power isn’t replacing that judgment — it’s continuously surfacing what matters, validating configurations, and helping teams scale impact without hiring “more architects.” "If I say something should be done, I need a way to know whether it was done correctly — and continuously.".

JumpCloud CTO Greg Keller explains why traditional, fragmented IT tools create a critical Zero Trust gap for AI agents, bots, and non-human identities (NHIs). The biggest inhibitor to innovation isn't restrictive policy—it's the internal lack of a unified identity foundation. Learn how to address "identity sprawl" and transform IT operations to deliver auditable trust, extend Zero Trust enforcement to machine-to-machine interactions, and build the Intelligent IT foundations required for safe, accelerated AI adoption.

The mythical 1+1=3 model in security? It happens when the tools you already own stop working in isolation — and start working as a system. Jay Wilson and Garrett Hamilton dig into why Reach’s platform approach matters: not just enhancing individual controls, but creating compounding value across identity, endpoint, email, and network. When visibility, configuration, and enforcement align, the outcome isn’t incremental — it’s exponential.

APIs are the Language of AI. Protecting them is Critical. In this discussion, A10 Networks security experts Jamison Utter and Carlo Alpuerto explore the emerging impact of Agentic AI on the API security landscape. They delve into how AI agents, as new API consumers, are driving an explosion in endpoints and exacerbating existing security issues, pushing API protection higher up the security practitioners' priority list.