Topic: Are We Ready for the Agentic Enterprise? Closing the Blind Spots in AI Security?
Abstract: AI is rapidly progressing beyond systems that simply respond to human instructions toward intelligent systems capable of planning, reasoning, interacting with tools, accessing data, and taking autonomous actions. As organizations increasingly adopt agentic AI, the traditional boundaries of enterprise security are beginning to change.
This webinar examines the emerging security challenges of the agentic enterprise, with a focus on the blind spots that can arise when AI agents interact with applications, APIs, enterprise data, identities, and external tools. It will address risks including excessive agent autonomy, privilege escalation, prompt and context manipulation, data exposure, insecure tool usage, supply-chain dependencies, and inadequate monitoring of AI-driven activities.
The session will also examine how organizations can adapt AI governance, identity and access controls, security monitoring, risk assessment, and incident response to address the realities of autonomous AI systems. Join us to gain practical insights into establishing appropriate guardrails, maintaining visibility into agent behavior, and balancing AI autonomy with effective human oversight.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand the security differences between agentic AI, traditional AI, and generative AI.
- Identify emerging attack surfaces and security blind spots across AI agents, tools, APIs, data, and enterprise applications.
- Explore the risks related to agent autonomy, excessive privileges, identity, and delegated access.
- Understand how prompt manipulation, context poisoning, and malicious interactions with tools can influence agent behavior.
- Learn how to implement guardrails, human oversight, and least-privilege controls for AI agents.
- Explore strategies for continuous monitoring and maintaining behavioral visibility across agentic systems.
- Understand how organizations can integrate AI-specific risks into enterprise risk management and governance.
- Examine how incident response needs to evolve when AI agents 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.
