The AI Control Loop: AI Security is API Security - with Tim Erlin of Wallarm
From Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders by Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO
June 10, 2026 · 17 min · Season 12
About this episode
The episode discusses the critical link between AI security and API security with Tim Erlin from Wallarm.
Today, we are kicking off a new series entitled The AI Control Loop, How enterprises govern the AI they've already deployed - sponsored by our friends at Wallarm. Wallarm is the AI Control Platform for Enterprise AI, protecting every AI workload, API, and application in production, giving CISOs the governance they need and CIOs the speed they demand. Organizations choose Wallarm for a complete inventory of APIs, AI agents, and AI apps, patented AI/ML-based threat detection and blocking that operates at production traffic speeds. Today's episode is entitled AI Security is API Security, and joining us is Tim Erlin, VP of Product Marketing at Wallarm. We discuss the foundational link between AI security and API security, digging into the role that APIs play in the dev, deployment, and operations of AI. We explore how they contribute to the risk profile of AI transformation projects, and how securing APIs is critical for successful AI transformation. Our Sponsors: * Check out Cash App and use my code CASHAPP10 for a great deal: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/mt82fpxl #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank…
People in this episode
Host: Noah Labhart
Guest: Tim Erlin
Topics covered
- AI security
- API security
- enterprise governance
- AI transformation
- threat detection
Keywords
- AI Control Loop
- API governance
- AI workloads
- threat detection
- CISO
- CIO
- AI transformation
Sponsors
Cash App
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Wallarm, Block, Inc., Sutton Bank
Places: United States
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