About this episode
Greg Otto discusses AI security challenges with Howard Ting, focusing on identity governance and access control in the enterprise.
In this week's episode, Greg Otto talks with Howard Ting, CEO of Opal Security, about the growing security challenges created by AI agents inside the enterprise, especially around identity governance, access control, and runtime authorization. As organizations adopt coding agents, workplace assistants, and other AI tools, traditional approaches to managing human access are being pushed beyond their limits by the speed, scale, and context required for agent-driven decisions. The conversation explores the risks of shadow AI, overprivileged agents, unintended data exposure, and the difficulty of enforcing least privilege when agents act on behalf of employees across sensitive systems. It also looks at what CISOs and security teams need to prioritize now, from gaining visibility into agent activity to building policy-aware controls that can make real-time access decisions and safely support AI adoption. In our reporter chat, Greg talks with Derek Johnson about a lawsuit where a dating app stole an influencer's TikTok videos to use in targeted ads to people she knew, all without her consent.
People in this episode
Host: Greg Otto
Guest: Howard Ting
Topics covered
- AI security challenges
- identity governance
- access control
- runtime authorization
- shadow AI
- least privilege
- real-time access decisions
Keywords
- AI agents
- security challenges
- identity governance
- access control
- runtime authorization
- shadow AI
- data exposure
- CISOs
- policy-aware controls
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Opal Security
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