Jeetu Patel, Matt Caufield and DJ Sampath tackle the shift toward a landscape where AI agents are no longer just assisting humans but are actively executing critical security tasks. As these agents take on more autonomy, the traditional pillars of cybersecurity, particularly identity, must undergo a radical evolution to ensure that our automated defenses remain both powerful and trustworthy.

8. The Opportunity and Challenge of Agentic Security with Jeetu Patel, DJ Sampath, and Matt Caulfield

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Welcome to another episode of Inside Product Podcast. Today I have with me two very special guests, two former CEOs of companies that we have acquired, Armor Blocks with DJ Sampath and Ort with Matt Caulfield. And so welcome to both of you. Thanks for having us.

Yeah, we're going to just riff on what is going on with agent security. So I'm just going to set some context and I want to make sure that we get our customers very clear and the audience very clear about what is it that we can do that is unique in this domain of agent security, which is a very, very heavily talked about domain right now.

So assuming that we are in this kind of next phase of AI with agents and agents are going to be like digital coworkers rather than just tools that are going to have tools access, we need to do a few things with agents, right? One is we have to protect the agents from the world with things like prompt injection attacks, data poisoning, all of that stuff. The second area is we got to protect the world from agents because these agents can go rogue. And if they go rogue, they can actually do a lot of harm.

So what is it that we are doing to provide a level of security so that customers can feel a level of trust when they delegate jobs to agents and they don't feel a high degree of anxiety when that happens? Yeah. No, I think you've got the framing right, which is we have to think about a lot of organizations are both building AI applications and they need to protect those applications and those agents.

8. The Opportunity and Challenge of Agentic Security with Jeetu Patel, DJ Sampath, and Matt Caulfield

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8. The Opportunity and Challenge of Agentic Security with Jeetu Patel, DJ Sampath, and Matt Caulfield

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.