Insecure Agents is a podcast that curates the most important conversations and trends in AI security. AI engineers, CISOs, and security practitioners listen to learn how to give their agents the security they need to reach higher levels of capability and autonomy.

Allie Howe

ALLIE HOWE HOST

Allie Howe is a Member of Technical Staff at Keycard and has a background in security engineering. She is a core contributor to the OWASP Agentic Security Initiative and has spoken at AI Engineer World's Fair and AI Agent Security Summit.

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Upcoming

Events coming up — RSVP to join us.

  • July 1, 2026

    AAuth Night Moving Beyond OAuth

    Premier Community Event

    111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco

    Authentication built for AI agents — how an agent can call resources without an API key. Lightning talks and live demos from Dick Hardt (AAuth creator, OAuth author), Jared Hanson (Keycard CTO, Passport.js author), and engineers shipping AAuth in production, closing with a panel Q&A moderated by Allie Howe.

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  • August 4, 2026

    CISO Build Night @ BlackHat

    Las Vegas, NV

    An evening workshop for security leaders at BlackHat. Build an agent that reads across design docs, RFCs, code commits, incidents, and PRs to surface the themes nobody is catching — with end-to-end auditability through Keycard. Bring a laptop; leave with a working hidden-risks detection agent.

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Past

Past Insecure Agents events.

  • May 14, 2026

    Building Internal AI

    AI Council Side Event

    Dirty Habit, San Francisco

    How companies deploy AI agents internally across Slack, GitHub, and Google Workspace — covering credential management, agent permissions, memory isolation, and adoption metrics. Moderated by Allie Howe with David Cramer (Sentry), Paul Klein IV (Browserbase), Brendan Irvine-Broque (Cloudflare), and Ian Livingstone (Keycard).

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  • November 20, 2025

    Building Trustworthy Agents

    Pensar, NYC

    Fresh off Day 1 of swyx's AI Engineer Code Summit, our NYC community descended on Pensar's offices for a live recording of Insecure Agents, hosted by Allie Howe. Kerem Proulx (Pensar), Samuel Colvin (Pydantic), Ian Livingstone (Keycard), and Leonard Tang (Haize Labs) explored how to build AI agents people can actually trust.

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