This day started off early – a customer call at 6, via Teams in my hotel room, because there was no way I’d have time the rest of the day. The call went well, and I got dressed and headed out for breakfast.
I ended up meeting with quite a few customers during the day, and the thrust was: in addition to yesterday (“how do I control all my agents”) there was a lot of confusion over Microsoft tooling. This is not unusual with our customers: our products are bundled together and customer may initially need only two or three things. We try to keep ahead of it, but sometimes it doesn’t come up until there’s an urgent need.
Day three was also a day of sessions, including some interesting keynotes titled (alternately) “AI vs AI” and “Robot vs Robot”; the gist being that in cybersecurity, a new arms race of agentic AI will emerge as AI tools are used by both attackers and defenders, to wit: attackers will be able to scale up attacks using AI for adaptive approaches, and defenders will us AI to triage and correlate the increased volume of alerts and indicators to help humans identify genuine attacks in the noise.
There was also a keynote by Adam Savage, who tied anecdotes from his Mythbusters days to cybersecurity, ending with a two-minute clip of explosions from the show.