Agents Are Like Teenagers: Governing at Machine Speed with Mastercard's Dr. Jay & Arjun Ramakrishnan
Alissa Abdullah, PhD and Arjun Ramakrishnan · Deputy Chief Security Officer at Mastercard and Senior Principal Cybersecurity Architect at Mastercard
Alissa Abdullah, PhD ("Dr. Jay"), Deputy Chief Security Officer at Mastercard, and Arjun Ramakrishnan, Senior Principal Cybersecurity Architect at Mastercard, join us live from Black Hat to explain why access models built for humans start to break when agents act on their behalf.
You can't provision access for an agent the same way you provision it for an employee, and just-in-time authorization takes on a new meaning when the consumer operates at machine speed. Dr. Jay and Arjun explain why every tool call and action needs to be authorized, why that's difficult to enforce, and what security teams need when an agent goes rogue, including the ability to revoke access instantly through a button or API call.
We also get into Mastercard's three-layer framing of security for AI, from AI, and with AI, and why agent governance needs to move from periodic review to real-time enforcement.
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