About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of AI agents in security and access management with Jeremy Epling from Vanta.

Automation is moving from APIs to full “computer use,” where agents click through screens like a human. That power is transforming evidence collection, access reviews, and repetitive security tasks, but it also raises new risk. In everyday workflows, the safest gains often start with read-only actions, sandboxes, and clear opt-in for anything that writes changes. Do your tools know when an access request is an anomaly? Can you keep humans in the loop with fast review-and-approve steps? And if an agent can browse your systems, how do you stop data from walking out the door before customers or attackers notice? Jeremy Epling is Chief Product Officer at Vanta, where he leads product strategy and execution for the company’s trust management platform. He focuses on helping organizations automate security and compliance, enabling them to build and scale with confidence. Previously, he was VP of Product at GitHub, overseeing Actions, Codespaces, npm, and Packages—core components of the modern developer workflow used by millions worldwide. Before GitHub, Jeremy spent more than 16 years at Microsoft, leading product teams across Azure DevOps Pipelines and Repos, OneDrive, Outlook…

People in this episode

Host: Richie

Guest: Jeremy Epling

Topics covered

• AI agents
• security risks
• automation
• access controls
• compliance
• data protection

Keywords

• AI agents
• security
• automation
• access reviews
• data leakage
• compliance
• risk management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vanta, GitHub, Microsoft

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