
← The Elephant in AppSec29 Dec 2025 · 47 min
Should security belong in every AI strategy meeting? with Amol Deshpande
<p>Today, I’m joined by Amol Deshpande, a seasoned security engineer currently at Stripe, where he focuses on building secure systems at massive scale. With a background spanning product security and penetration testing at companies like Salesforce, Splunk, and Early Warning, Amol brings deep hands-on experience in securing complex, real-world platforms. </p><p>He’s also been a HackMIT judge and a long-time CTF competitor at DEF CON, giving him a very practical view of modern security challenges.</p><p>In this episode, we cover whether security must now belong in every AI strategy meeting, and how to embed it into AI development from the outset.</p><p>We also touch on how privacy concerns will only grow as agents are trained on sensitive data and why human oversight is essential for critical AI operations. </p><p>Dive right in! </p>