We’ve heard a ton of excitement about AI Agents, Agentic AI, and its potential for Cybersecurity. This ranges in areas such as GRC, SecOps, and Application Security (AppSec).

That is why I was excited to sit down with Ghost Security Co-Founder/CEO Greg Martin.

In this episode, we sit down with Ghost Security CEO and Co-Founder Greg Martin to chat about Agentic AI and AppSec. Agentic AI is one of the hottest trends going into 2025, and we will discuss what it is, its role in AppSec, and what system industry challenges it may help tackle.

Greg and I chatted about a lot of great topics, including:

• The hype around Agentic AI and what makes AppSec, in particular, such a promising area and use case for AI to tackle longstanding AppSec challenges such as vulnerabilities, insecure code, backlogs, and workforce constraints.
• Greg’s experience as a multi-time founder, including going through acquisitions, but what continues to draw him back to being a builder and operational founder.
• The challenges of historical AppSec tooling and why the time for innovation, new ways of thinking, and leveraging AI is due.
• Whether we think AI will end up helping or hurting more in terms of defenders and attackers and their mutual use of this promising technology.

And much more, so be sure to tune in and check it out, as well as check out his team at Ghost Security and what they’re up to!

In this episode, we will be sitting down with Filip Stojkovski and Dylan Williams to dive into AI, Agentic AI, and the intersection with cybersecurity, specifically Security Operations (SecOps).

I’ve been following Filip and Dylan for a bit via LinkedIn and really impressed with their perspective on AI and its intersection with Cyber, especially SecOps. We dove into that in this episode including:

• What exactly Agentic AI and AI Agents are, and how they work
• What a Blueprint for AI Agents in Cybersecurity may look like, using their example in their blog with the same title
• The role of multi-agentic architectures, potential patterns, and examples such as Triage Agents, Threat Hunting Agents, and Response Agents and how they may work in unison
• The potential threats to AI Agents and Agentic AI architectures, including longstanding challenges such as Identity and Access Management (IAM), Least-Permissive Access Control, Exploitation, and Lateral Movement
• The current state of adoption across enterprises and the startup landscape and key considerations for CISO’s and security leaders looking to potentially leverage Agentic SecOps products and offerings

In this episode, we sit down with StackAware Founder and AI Governance Expert Walter Haydock. Walter specializes in helping companies navigate AI governance and security certifications, frameworks, and risks. We will dive into key frameworks, risks, lessons learned from working directly with organizations on AI Governance, and more.

• We discussed Walter’s pivot with his company StackAware from AppSec and Supply Chain to a focus on AI Governance and from a product-based approach to a services-oriented offering and what that entails.
• Walter has been actively helping organizations with AI Governance, including helping them meet emerging and newly formed standards such as ISO 42001. Walter provides field notes, lessons learned and some of the most commonly encountered pain points organizations have around AI Governance.
• Organizations have a ton of AI Governance and Security resources to rally around, from OWASP, Cloud Security Alliance, NIST, and more. Walter discusses how he recommends organizations get started and where.
• The U.S. and EU have taken drastically different approaches to AI and Cybersecurity, from the EU AI Act, U.S. Cyber EO, Product Liability, and more. We discuss some of the pros and cons of each and why the U.S.’s more relaxed approach may contribute to economic growth, while the EU’s approach to being a regulatory superpower may impede their economic growth.
• Walter lays our key credentials practitioners can explore to demonstrate expertise in AI security, including the IAPP AI Governance credential, which he recently took himself.

You can find our more about Walter Haydock by following him on LinkedIn where he shares a lot of great AI Governance and Security insights, as well as his company website www.stackaware.com