Governing Agent-to-Agent Trust at Scale with MuleSoft from Salesforce SVP and GM Andrew Comstock

In this episode of Shift AI, Andrew Comstock, Senior Vice President and General Manager of MuleSoft from Salesforce, joins host Boaz Ashkenazy for a wide-ranging conversation on governing, securing, and controlling the cost of agentic AI at enterprise scale.The conversation covers how MuleSoft's API-led integration playbook, built during the on-prem-to-cloud shift, is now extending into what the company calls Agent Fabric — bringing governance and controlled connectivity to agent-to-agent communication. Andrew walks through a concrete example of how two internal agents trusting each other by default can leak a customer's order history, and digs into prompt injection, impersonation, and why the security industry's people-focused compliance frameworks now have to account for reasoning software, not just people. He and Boaz also get into token economics, LLM gateways, intent-based routing between local and cloud models, and the emerging trend of companies repatriating some AI workloads on-premise.This episode is essential listening for CTOs, CISOs, platform and integration engineers, and IT and product leaders responsible for governing AI spend and agent security as their organizations scale past pilot projects into production.Chapters[00:01] Andrew Comstock's path to MuleSoft[02:06] First job: tax returns and trumpet reeds[03:21] What MuleSoft does and its extension into Agent Fabric[05:29] From consumer chatbots to enterprise agent connectors[07:22] Governance and security at the enterprise level[10:36] A real example: how two agents can leak an order number[13:45] Connect AI 2025 vs. 2026 — a year of night-and-day change[16:28] Mythos, Fable, and preparing for the LLM that breaks your systems[18:11] Token economics and the true cost of enterprise AI[20:38] The "AI savior" pattern vs. applying IT discipline to AI[22:40] Hybrid deployments, local models, and intent-based routing[27:13] Why AI's uneven acceleration makes prioritization more valuable[28:57] The two-word answer: "coming soon"Connect with Andrew ComstockLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewcomstock/Connect with Boaz AshkenazyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boazashkenazy/Email: [email protected]