The AI People

Season 2 · Securing AI Agents · Episode 5

The hardest problem in AI for security isn't the model. It's trust.

Ahmed Achchak, Co-Founder and CEO of Qevlar AI, joins host Vivek Bharathi at RSAC 2026 on autonomous investigations in the SOC, why consistent and explainable decisions matter more than clever ones, and how teams measure the gains.

Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:39 Live from RSAC 2026
1:35 Meet Qevlar AI
2:05 AI moves from detection to SOC operations
3:35 The real challenge is trust
5:05 Consistent, explainable decisions: a graph, not just an LLM
7:20 Customer results: up to 90% faster investigations

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Ahmed Achchak (Qevlar AI): https://www.linkedin.com/company/qevlar/
Vivek Bharathi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekbharathivb/

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Would you trust an AI agent to close a security alert on its own?

Season 2 · Securing AI Agents · Episode 4

Think of AI agents as really smart teenagers with infinite energy: great when they're headed the right way, scary when they take your car too fast.

Doug Merritt, Chairman and CEO of Aviatrix and former CEO of Splunk, joins host Vivek Bharathi at RSAC 2026 on why the network is the missing leg of cloud security, who is liable in the cloud, and the guardrails AI agents need.

Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:47 Live from RSAC 2026, day three
2:13 How RSAC has changed, and why every booth screams AI
4:13 The three legs of the security stool
6:13 The cloud is less secure than you think
6:58 Agents, MCP and the leaked-code wake-up call
8:28 AI agents are infinite-energy teenagers
8:58 The next two years in AI security
10:58 The takeaway

Connect with the guest and host
Doug Merritt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-m-33169/
Vivek Bharathi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekbharathivb/

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Do you know what your AI agents are sending over the network right now?

Season 2 · Securing AI Agents · Episode 3

If AI is going to catch all of our security problems, why is it putting them there in the first place?

Live from Black Hat in Las Vegas: co-host Deepali Gosain (Founder and CEO, Ferendis, host of AI Trust Table) sits down with Darren Meyer of Checkmarx Zero, the Checkmarx research team, with questions from co-host Vivek Bharathi, on secure-by-design AI, the agent development lifecycle, and the security debt piling up behind AI-written code.

Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:37 Welcome: Deepali live at Black Hat
1:54 At the Checkmarx booth with Darren Meyer
3:39 Governance by design vs. speed to market
5:24 Security as a business requirement
7:09 Built in vs. bolted on
8:39 The agent development lifecycle (ADLC)
11:54 Is AI making vulnerable code worse?
13:39 Can the AI reviewer be tricked?
16:24 Takeaways from Black Hat

Connect with the guest
Darren Meyer (Checkmarx): https://www.linkedin.com/company/checkmarx/

Connect with the hosts
Deepali Gosain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepaligosain/
Vivek Bharathi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekbharathivb/

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Is your team paying down its AI security debt, or betting it never comes due?

Season 2 · Securing AI Agents · Episode 2

Even a magic AI that solved cybersecurity today wouldn't work tomorrow, because attackers are paid to beat it.

Dean Teffer, VP of Artificial Intelligence at Arctic Wolf, joins host Vivek Bharathi at RSAC 2026 on AI agents in the security operations center, keeping humans in the loop, and the skills the next generation of defenders will need.

Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:45 Live from RSAC 2026
1:41 Why cybersecurity is an adversarial AI problem
2:56 A swarm of AI agents in the SOC
4:26 Arctic Wolf's RSAC announcements
6:26 The secret sauce: a decade of SOC data
8:26 Skills for the next generation of defenders
10:41 RSAC 2026 in one sentence

Connect with the guest and host
Dean Teffer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deanteffer/
Vivek Bharathi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekbharathivb/

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Where should humans stay in the loop when AI agents run your security operations?

Season 2 · Securing AI Agents · Episode 1

The business moves at AI speed while security still runs at human speed. Nir Greenberg on why ungoverned AI agents are the new weakest link in the SaaS stack.

Nir Greenberg, VP of Solutions Engineering at Reco, joins host Vivek Bharathi at RSAC 2026 to talk shadow AI, agent-to-agent risk, and how to discover, protect and respond across SaaS apps, AI and agents.

Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:40 Live from RSAC 2026
1:21 From Proofpoint to Reco
2:06 10x more apps than they knew about
3:36 Why AI agents are a new kind of SaaS risk
6:21 Nightmare scenario: agents talking to agents
10:51 Fixing risky agents without breaking the business
12:36 From eight hours to 15 minutes
13:51 Security as an AI enabler
15:36 The regulator doesn't care about your honor system

Connect with the guest and host
Nir Greenberg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nir-greenberg-b5b09729/
Vivek Bharathi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekbharathivb/

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Do you know how many AI agents are connected to your company's SaaS apps right now?

Season 1 · Who Governs AI? · Episode 10

A cyberattack is never just an IT problem. It lands on the balance sheet. Dan Candee on keeping the money in the bank account and out of attackers' hands.

Dan Candee is CEO of Cork Cyber, which pairs cyber security insights with financial protection for small and mid-size businesses. Recorded live at RSAC 2026 with host Vivek Bharathi.

Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:42 Live from RSAC
1:23 From data to dollars
3:29 What's trending at RSAC: AI-powered attackers
5:22 Why small businesses are most exposed
6:48 Sitting above 6,500 security tools
9:17 One takeaway for 2026

Connect with the guest and host
Dan Candee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dancandee/
Vivek Bharathi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekbharathivb/

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In your company, who owns cyber risk: the CISO, the CFO or the board?

Season 1 · Who Governs AI? · Episode 9

Agents are moving from pet projects to production, and AI is non-deterministic. Pratyusha Duvvuri on how to keep eyes on your agents before they go rogue.

Pratyusha Duvvuri is a Senior Tech Lead at Galileo, an AI observability, evaluation and guardrails platform. Recorded live at DeveloperWeek 2026 with host Vivek Bharathi.

Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:45 Live from DeveloperWeek
1:54 Why AI agents need eyes and ears
2:38 Observability, evals and real-time guardrails
3:43 Standing out on a crowded show floor
5:09 Why governance matters for banks and enterprises
6:32 How to get started

Connect with the guest and host
Pratyusha Duvvuri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pratyushaduvvuri/
Vivek Bharathi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekbharathivb/

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How do you know what your AI agents did yesterday?

Season 1 · Who Governs AI? · Episode 8

Two conferences, one city, almost no overlap. Deepali Gosain reports from Black Hat and Ai4 in Las Vegas on why AI governance is now a board-level conversation.

Co-hosts Deepali Gosain (Founder and CEO, Ferendis, host of AI Trust Table) and Vivek Bharathi compare notes live from the Black Hat and Ai4 show floors in Las Vegas.

Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:47 Live from Las Vegas
1:13 Why Black Hat and Ai4 at the same time
3:27 Black Hat: where AI meets cyber security
4:46 What's top of mind on the floor
6:31 AI governance is now a board-level conversation
10:46 Black Hat vs. Ai4: two different worlds
15:36 From role-based to intent-based access control
17:20 Bringing it back to the AI Trust Table
19:15 The rise of the chief AI officer

Connect with the hosts
Deepali Gosain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepaligosain/
Vivek Bharathi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekbharathivb/

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Should security and AI teams share one conference, and one budget?

Season 1 · Who Governs AI? · Episode 7

A car can only go as fast as its brakes allow. This AI Trust Table roundtable argues compliance is how you race ahead, not what holds you back.

Co-hosts Deepali Gosain (Founder and CEO, Ferendis, host of AI Trust Table) and Vivek Bharathi bring together board members, investors and builders, including Dan Turchin, CEO of PeopleReign, to ask how compliance becomes a competitive advantage.

Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:39 Build it in, don't bolt it on
0:58 Empathy, creativity and humility
2:18 Why trust comes first
2:58 A car can only go as fast as its brakes
3:38 Innovation lives at the outliers
4:38 Compliance in defense AI: start early
5:58 What employees put into AI tools
6:58 How investors push standards
7:38 Medical devices and AI security
8:58 Who should govern AI?
9:58 Security foundations for startups

Connect with the guest
Dan Turchin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dturchin/

Connect with the hosts
Deepali Gosain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepaligosain/
Vivek Bharathi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekbharathivb/

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Is compliance slowing your AI roadmap down, or speeding it up?

Season 1 · Who Governs AI? · Episode 6

People are already being sued over what their AI twins say. Part 5 closes the Governance Marathon with digital twins, an AI stethoscope demo, and who is accountable on the front line.

Vivek Bharathi is the featured guest of this AI Trust Table roundtable, hosted by Deepali Gosain (Founder and CEO, Ferendis), with founders, operators, investors and executives from fintech, health tech, medical devices and enterprise software around the table.

Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:35 Owning your digital twin
1:54 Sued by your AI twin
7:55 Demo: an AI stethoscope and health-data governance
20:03 Who is accountable on the front line?

Connect with the guest and host
Vivek Bharathi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekbharathivb/
Deepali Gosain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepaligosain/

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Who should own AI governance in your company: the board, the C-suite, or the team that ships it?