Giving Your AI Agent Its Own Identity with Ashish Rajan

Your newest hire has a Google Workspace account, a Slack login and a laptop. It never sleeps, and it never asks before it acts. So who owns its identity? Ron welcomes back Ashish Rajan, CISO at Techriot.io and researcher with AI Security Lab, who spent 17 years in identity, cloud security and security leadership. His take: vendors haven't solved AI identity, and the open questions are on your side, not the product's.Ashish got into identity after failing his OSCP three times: if he couldn't break in, he wouldn't let anyone else in. Now he reviews Ron's own setup, where Hacker Valley's AI agent, Jennifer Romani, has her own accounts just like an employee. Ashish explains how that call changes from a one-laptop small business to an enterprise where every developer's machine acts like five. They also cover the Gemini breach headlines, swarms of agents and AI Security Lab, which Ashish describes as what OWASP is for AppSec, but for AI security.The uncomfortable truth: defenders have the same models attackers do, but attackers don't wait for a pull request review. Ashish calls that a people problem, not a technology problem. He also shares the question he asks before handing anything to an AI agent: can this be reversed?Impactful Moments

00:00 - Introduction02:30 - Busting a myth: AI identity isn't solved05:30 - Three OSCP attempts and a pivot to IAM07:00 - Why AI identity is more complex than ever09:15 - Hot or not: giving an AI agent its own accounts11:10 - One laptop, five machines in the enterprise12:50 - AI gateways and developer observability14:05 - Where Ashish would spend his AI security budget18:20 - Why defenders don't hack themselves first19:05 - The real problem is people22:15 - Swarms of agents are coming23:50 - What AI Security Lab is building26:35 - Never share your credit card with AI28:40 - Ron's callback: can it be reversed?

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