Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Josh Rector is the Compliance Director, Public Sector at Ace of Cloud, a security and compliance consulting firm, certified CMMC Third-Party Assessor Organization (C3PAO), and Registered Provider Organization (RPO). With more than a decade of experience in cybersecurity compliance, he has worked both sides of the assessment table, leading internal and external assessments, serving as ISSO for systems at federal agencies, and guiding cloud service providers through the FedRAMP authorization process.

Agentic AI workloads are shipping to production on Kubernetes faster than the standards to secure them. Many teams deploying autonomous, tool-calling agents as containerized microservices do so without a shared baseline for securing or monitoring those containers. The CNCF AI Technical Community Group recently published a comprehensive article on cloud-native agentic standards, marking the first attempt to define best practices for such deployments.

Boris Kurktchiev is a Field CTO at Teleport, known for his expertise in Zero-Trust identity solutions for cloud and AI, and for his contributions to the CNCF's Cloud Native AI working group. Doyensec dropped a piece last week called The MCP AuthN/Z Nightmare, and I think anyone deploying MCP in production needs to read it.

Matthew Smith is a vCISO and management consultant specializing in cybersecurity risk management and AI. Over the last 15 years, he has authored standards, guidance and best practices with ISO, NIST, and other governing bodies. Smith strives to create actionable resources for organizations seeking to minimize technological risk and increase value to customers.