Securing the Agentic Frontier : Architecture, Risk, and Practice

Monday, 9:00 AM EST

While people are fixating on the threat AI brings to cybersecurity as
a discipline, there’s the considerably more pedestrian but crucial
perspective of securing these systems. The role of the CISO is
expanding beyond security practices to include risk management,
compliance, and more and these role expansions will cascade through
the organization.

Agentic systems collapse traditional boundaries between user, system,
and adversary. Not only do they introduce new risks, they challenge
foundational assumptions in security engineering. Identity and
authorization grants are fluid based upon contextual composition,
behavior becomes non-deterministic, and threat models become
continuous, not static.

What are the risks, challenges, and opportunities that are unleashed
at the intersection of security postures, agents with agency, ambient
authority, context-specific interactions, and engineering discipline?
How does one grow this capability in an organization and how does one
align their career in this direction.

In this workshop, we will cover:

  • Introduction : Framing the Agentic Opportunities and Problems
  • Threat Landscapes and Taxonomies Throughout the Layers
  • Risk Models
  • Architectural Patterns
  • SDLC Integration and Touchpoints
  • Frameworks and Governance for Industry Alignment
  • Career Paths Centered at This Confluence

This will be a broad and deep discussion suitable for all levels of technical background and roles from developers, to architects, to tech leadership.

About Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.

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