From Fear to Excitement: AI Agents in Security

01/08/2024 33 min
From Fear to Excitement: AI Agents in Security

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In this episode of All Aboard, Alex Bovee is joined by Nancy Wang and Ashish Popli, security veterans and co-hosts of the De-FUD Podcast. Nancy is a venture partner at Felicis who's built data security products at some of the biggest names in SaaS, and Ashish led information security projects at Microsoft before moving on to create top-notch security teams as CISO at companies like UiPath and Spotnana.Together, Alex, Nancy, and Ashish tackle one of the industry’s hottest topics right now: AI agents and their impact on the future of security workflows. From analyzing what makes an AI agent to unpacking these agents’ security implications and areas of promise, this episode covers it all. If you’re curious about where the AI revolution is going to take the security space next, this is one episode you don’t want to miss!What’s inside:What are AI agents? And what are the security concerns around them?The security implications of leveraging AI agents within your environmentOpportunities for security practitioners to use AI agents in their workflowsWhere does the most promise lie for using AI and LLM technologies in security?Are AI bots going to become domain specific? And how do they fit into the age-old build vs. buy debate?