Experts Jeff Crume and Josh Spurgin explore the critical security and governance challenges posed by autonomous AI agents. They detail common threats like prompt injection, data poisoning, and model theft, and discuss governance issues such as bias, transparency, and accountability, providing a set of actionable safeguards to build secure, trustworthy, and compliant AI systems.
A deep dive into the security vulnerabilities of Multi-Context Protocol (MCP) for AI agents. The talk explores how identity loss, "all-or-nothing" permissions, and disappearing audit trails create significant attack surfaces, and presents solutions like identity chain tracking, context-aware permissions, and intelligent auditing to secure agent-to-tool communication.
To build secure AI systems, we must first learn to break them. Katharine Jarmul explores the landscape of adversarial AI, detailing how attackers exploit fundamental weaknesses in deep learning models—from poisoned training data and overparameterization to the attention mechanism itself. This talk provides a practical taxonomy of attacks and a primer on building robust defenses.
Sam Partee, CTO of Arcade AI, explains that building production-grade agentic systems requires moving beyond simple chatbots. He details the critical components for creating reliable, secure, and scalable tools, including rigorous schema management, the principle of least privilege, continuous evaluation, and a crucial distinction between 'exploratory' and 'operational' tools.
IBM's Security Intelligence podcast discusses key cybersecurity trends for 2026, including the shift to operational resilience, Microsoft's expanded bug bounty for third-party code, the long-tail impact of the LastPass breach, OpenAI's use of AI for automated red teaming against prompt injections, and the commercialization of ClickFix attacks.
Explore Jeff Crume's cybersecurity predictions for 2026 and beyond, detailing the dual impact of AI in security, the rise of autonomous AI agents, the futility of deepfake detection, and the critical importance of post-quantum cryptography and passkeys for future defense.