BSides Vancouver 2026

Grounded in the experience of supporting over 100 AI frontier firms in their security posture, Michael will cover pragmatic approaches to enable security and safety of your organization in the era of AI.

This talk will cover in depth, specific recommendations you can use in your organization today in the areas of:

AI Program and Risk Management - how to govern AI adoption and risk at your organization
Effective defence techniques against undetectable impersonation attacks

Development security - safety, guardrails and techniques to make sure agentic coding doesn't increase your vulnerability risks

Vendor risk management and shadow IT - technical and operational solutions to address AI vendor sprawl and risks

Agentic access management - understanding how to leverage permissions and data access controls while enabling agentic workflows