The Next Frontier: Autonomous Security and RSAC Interviews from Quantro & SandboxAQ - Marc Manzano, Mark Hughes, Mehul Revankar - BSW #445

The Next Frontier: Autonomous Security and RSAC Interviews from Quantro & SandboxAQ - Marc Manzano, Mark Hughes, Mehul Revankar - BSW #445

April 29, 2026 · 1h 10m

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The episode discusses the rise of autonomous security in response to automated cyber threats, featuring insights from Mark Hughes of IBM and an introduction to Quantro Security's AI solutions.

Attackers are increasingly weaponizing frontier models to accelerate the entire attack lifecycle, with current and emerging models reducing the time and expertise needed to start disruptive attacks. As offensive capabilities become more automated and agentic, organizations will need security programs that are equally autonomous, coordinated and continuous. But where do you start? Mark Hughes, Global Managing Partner, Cybersecurity Services at IBM, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss autonomous security, the next frontier of cybersecurity services. IBM recently announced IBM Autonomous Security, a separate service that uses AI agents to analyze software exposures and runtime environments. Mark will discuss the fears and hype of AI and how agentic AI agents can identify paths in an enterprise security environment that can be exploited, improve cyber hygiene, and enforce security policies. As frontier models, like Mythos, accelerate attacks, security programs need to respond with speed, at scale, to drive the right business outcomes. AI Agents for Vulnerability Management Introducing Quantro Security, Inc., a new agentic AI solution bringing AI agents to vulnerability…

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