Subscribe Share Full episode and show notes Threat Intelligence , Application security , AI benefits/risks Augmenting Threat Intel Analysis with Agents – Sai Kiran Uppu, Chris Wallis, Ramin Farassat – ASW #396 All sorts of cybersecurity disciplines are adopting agents to help humans save time and automate routine activities. Sai Kiran Uppu describes his work on creating a platform for agents to analyze external threat intel, examine internal systems, and present triage decisions to operators. This type of work is especially useful to orgs that deal with petabytes of data and thousands of systems. And, as Kiran notes, it’s important to keep that scale from blowing up your budget or turning triage into a procession of false positives. Ideally, this kind of threat intel that’s paying attention to attack trends and searching internal systems for evidence of compromise also turns into proactive defense... August 18, 2026 This episode is sponsored by Full Segment Notes All sorts of cybersecurity disciplines are adopting agents to help humans save time and automate routine activities. Sai Kiran Uppu describes his work on creating a platform for agents to analyze external threat intel, examine internal systems, and present triage decisions to operators. This type of work is especially useful to orgs that deal with petabytes of data and thousands of systems. And, as Kiran notes, it's important to keep that scale from blowing up your budget or turning triage into a procession of false positives. Ideally, this kind of threat intel that's paying attention to attack trends and searching internal systems for evidence of compromise also turns into proactive defenses. We talk about some of the ways to engage developers to improve security visibility into their services and harden their designs against common attacks. After that discussion we're running two sponsored interviews from Black Hat. AI Pentesting and the Future of Cybersecurity: Black Hat interview with Chris Wallis, Founder and CEO of Intruder This segment discusses how AI addresses the long-standing gap between traditional pentesting and automated vulnerability scanning. Intruder CEO and founder Chris Wallis dives into the nuances of AI-enabled security and how these offerings will impact mid-market security teams. Segment Resources: https://www.intruder.io/platform/ai-pentesting https://www.intruder.io/blog/ai-pentesting-the-depth-of-a-pentest-on-demand https://www.intruder.io/blog/ai-web-app-pentesting-test-on-every-major-release Intruder's continuous exposure management platform helps security, IT, and engineering teams stop breaches before they start. For more information about Intruder’s products and services, please visit https://securityweekly.com/intruderbh . How Menlo Security Is Securing AI Agents from Prompt Injection: Black Hat Interview with Ramin Farassat, Chief Product Officer of Menlo Enterprises are deploying AI agents like Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Claude Code faster than they can secure them, and attackers are exploiting that gap through prompt injection. Hidden instructions get buried in web pages, files, and even images that a human would never notice but an AI agent reads and acts on. Menlo Security is building Menlo Agent Runtime Security (MARS) to close that gap, running every agent session in an isolated cloud that sanitizes content before an agent can act on it. Ramin Farassat, Menlo Security's Chief Product Officer, will discuss why the exposure lives in the connectors and integrations around the model rather than the model itself, and how security teams can put controls on the agent attack surface without blocking agentic AI outright. Segment Resources: https://www.menlosecurity.com/product/ai-agent-security MARS is now available today, please visit https://securityweekly.com/menlobh Guests Sai Kiran Uppu Senior Security and AI Researcher at Adobe Sai Kiran Uppu is a Senior Security Researcher in Adobe’s Cybersecurity Threat Research & Intelligence (CTRI) team, where he focuses on AI-driven threat intelligence and cloud security. He architects and maintains Adobe’s threat intelligence and incident response platform and has built an agentic AI threat intel pipelines to stay ahead of adversaries. He holds an MS in Security Informatics from Johns Hopkins and holds CISSP, GCTI, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, and AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate. He has spoken at IEEE SVCC, The Diana Initiative, BSides SLC, and Penn State. Chris Wallis Founder and CEO at Intruder Chris Wallis is the founder and CEO of Intruder. With deep experience in both offensive security and defensive operations, Chris has worked hands-on with global banks, major financial institutions, and critical national infrastructure, securing some of the most targeted and high-risk environments in the world. This blend of attacker-led insight and real-world defense crafted Intruder’s practical approach to finding and fixing the vulnerabilities that matter before they can be exploited. Ramin Farassat Chief Product Officer at Menlo Security Executive Product Leader with a proven track record of scaling SaaS platforms, driving AI-led innovation, and delivering sustained enterprise growth. I bridge boardroom strategy with day-to-day execution, aligning product direction with market opportunity, investor priorities, and operational excellence. 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