Interview #81 Vrajesh Bhavsar, CEO of Operant AI

Interview #81 Vrajesh Bhavsar, CEO of Operant AI

From The Artificial Intelligence Podcast by Dr. Tony Hoang

January 1, 2026 · 33 min

About this episode

Vrajesh Bhavsar discusses the emerging threats to production AI systems and the limitations of traditional security tools.

Join Vrajesh Bhavsar, CEO of Operant AI, as he reveals the emerging threat landscape facing production AI systems, from sophisticated prompt injection attacks to zero-click exploits that can exfiltrate sensitive data without any user interaction. Bhavsar explains how traditional security tools like code scanning, network firewalls, and cloud security posture management become largely ineffective against AI agents operating with non-deterministic behavior and authorized access to critical systems, requiring runtime security solutions that function as AI-layer firewalls. He discusses the Shadow Escape attack class discovered by Operant targeting Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, where the rapid proliferation of 20,000 mostly open-source MCP servers creates dangerous shared memory spaces across disparate API endpoints, enabling data poisoning and exfiltration at scale while traditional security teams remain blind to these agent-to-agent interactions happening within the "cloud within the cloud."

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Tony Hoang

Guest: Vrajesh Bhavsar

Topics covered

  • AI security
  • prompt injection attacks
  • zero-click exploits
  • runtime security
  • data exfiltration
  • cloud security

Keywords

  • AI threats
  • security tools
  • data poisoning
  • cloud security
  • runtime security
  • MCP servers
  • exfiltration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Operant AI, Model Context Protocol

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