Steve Wilson--OpenClaw and Advanced AI Agents

About this episode

Steve Wilson discusses the implications of AI agents in security and shares his experience with a phishing attack on his AI assistant.

In this episode of the Application Security Podcast, Chris Romeo and Robert Hurlbut welcome back Steve Wilson, a global leader in AI security and Chief AI and Product Officer at Exabeam, as well as founder of the OWASP Gen AI Security Project. Steve shares how his AI assistant was “hacked” using a simple phishing attack, highlighting a major shift in security—AI agents behave more like humans than traditional software. The conversation explores how this changes the threat model, why AppSec i...

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Hosts: Chris Romeo, Robert Hurlbut

Guest: Steve Wilson

Topics covered

• AI security
• phishing attacks
• threat models
• application security
• AI agents

Keywords

• AI security
• phishing
• threat model
• application security
• AI agents

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Exabeam, OWASP Gen AI Security Project

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