Topic: Are We Ready for the Agentic Enterprise? Closing the Blind Spots in AI Security?
Abstract: AI is rapidly evolving from a tool that responds to human instructions into systems capable of planning, reasoning, using tools, accessing data, and taking autonomous actions. As organizations embrace agentic AI, the traditional boundaries of enterprise security are beginning to shift. The current webinar examines the emerging security challenges of the agentic enterprise, focusing on the blind spots created when AI agents interact with applications, APIs, enterprise data, identities, and external tools. It will explore risks such as excessive agent autonomy, privilege escalation, prompt and context manipulation, data exposure, insecure tool use, supply-chain dependencies, and insufficient monitoring of AI-driven actions. The session will also explore how organizations can adapt AI governance, identity and access controls, security monitoring, risk assessment, and incident response to account for autonomous AI systems. Join us to gain insights on establishing appropriate guardrails, maintaining visibility into agent behavior, and balancing AI autonomy with human oversight.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand how agentic AI differs from traditional AI and generative AI from a security perspective.
- Identify emerging attack surfaces and blind spots across AI agents, tools, APIs, data, and enterprise applications.
- Explore risks associated with agent autonomy, excessive privileges, identity, and delegated access.
- Understand how prompt manipulation, context poisoning, and malicious tool interactions can affect agent behavior.
- Learn how to establish guardrails, human oversight, and least-privilege controls for AI agents.
- Explore approaches for continuous monitoring and behavioral visibility across agentic systems.
- Understand how AI-specific risks should be incorporated into enterprise risk management and governance.
- Examine how incident response must evolve when AI agents themselves become active participants in security incidents.
Speaker:
Dr. Derek A. Smith, Founder & CEO, CertifyIT Academy
Bio: Dr. Derek A. Smith is a cybersecurity executive, educator, and author with 35+ years bridging federal cybersecurity operations and adult workforce instruction. Recently retired from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as Deputy Director of the HART biometric identity program, he is the Founder of CertifyIT Academy and a Certified EC-Council Instructor delivering CompTIA, AI CERTs, and EC-Council training to federal and DoD audiences including DISA. Author of Cybersense — named to BookAuthority’s 100 Best Cybersecurity Books of All Time — he hosts The Cybersecurity Professor on YouTube (28K+ subscribers). A federal Special Agent veteran across five agencies and four-branch military veteran, he serves on EC-Council and AI CERTs advisory boards.
