Siloed Security? Forget AI Adoption

Omar Santos is a Distinguished Engineer directing AI Security at Cisco. He’s here for a frank conversation about the realities of security in the agentic era. As more software is created on-the-fly by AI agents at the request of humans, security has to become an ever-present layer. Security will be built into complete agent runtime environments and will require constant human oversight and intervention, augmented by the ability to simulate outcomes to avoid risk. Omar is also the Co-Chair of the Coalition for Secure AI, and these are the things he’s thinking about on a daily basis. He sits down with Robb and Josh at the end of a travel blitz that included work surrounding OpenAI’s Stargate Project, a four-year $500b plan for new AI infrastructure in the United States. The trio discuss how the ongoing training of models and the rising demand for inference continue to push the demand for security across burgeoning technology ecosystems. ---------- Support our show by supporting our sponsors!This episode is supported by OneReach.ai — creators of Generative Studio X (GSX), the first complete AI Agent Runtime Environment (V1 circa 2019). Forged over a decade of R&D and proven in 10,000+ deployments, GSX lets enterprises design, build, and orchestrate secure, scalable AI agents and systems. Trusted across healthcare, finance, government, and telecom. Use any AI modelsBuild and deploy intelligent agents fastCreate guardrails for organizational alignmentEnterprise-grade security and governanceAvoid vendor lock-in.Backed by UC Berkeley and recognized by Gartner.Before you build or buy another AI solution, think about getting an AI system.Book a Demo: https://onereach.ai/book-a-demo/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=podcast_s6e9&utm_content=1 ---------- The revised and significantly updated second edition of our bestselling book about succeeding with AI agents, Age of Invisible Machines, is available everywhere: Amazon — https://bit.ly/4hwX0a5Chapters - 00:00 - Intro and episode setup00:33 - Meet Omar Santos and his role in AI security01:00 - Security as the new programming02:20 - Coalition for Secure AI and security as a new language04:45 - Identity, access, and AI agents06:09 - Scaling models and mega data centers09:04 - Training vs inference and the compute explosion12:54 - Budgets, compute, and hybrid human–AI security teams15:16 - Checklists, guardrails, and spec-driven development20:00 - From IDEs to agent swarms and background agents25:19 - CodeGuard, rules for coding agents, and secure SDLC32:00 - Why doing nothing is the biggest AI security risk39:30 - Validating AI, AI safety levels, and open source dilemmas46:00 - Private networks, insider AI agents, and embedded security51:00 - Simulation, digital twins, and business-wide risk modeling#InvisibleMachines #Podcast #TechPodcast#AIPodcast#AI #AgenticAI#AIAgents#DigitalTransformation#Cybersecurity#AIInfrastructure#AIOrchestration#AIManagement#TechLeadership#Innovation#ResponsibleAI#AIStandards#Cisco#OpenAI#StargateProject#AISecurity#Technology