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Zero Trust Journey isn’t about taking sides—it’s about real conversations, sharing research, and learning together. Our goal is to explore Zero Trust from every angle and help cybersecurity practitioners make sense of it in a practical, no-fluff way. And yes, we do love to chat about coffee and listen to the occasional dad joke along the way.
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- Conversations with Experts: We chat with subject matter experts who share their opinions, experiences, and Zero Trust journeys.
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- CSA CCZT Study Group: We host a study group for the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Certificate of Competence in Zero Trust (CCZT).
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Zero Trust Journey
Episode 47: The "Messy Middle" of AI Security: Why Agents Fail in Production
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In this episode of the Zero Trust Journey, Dr. Victor Monga sits down with Vishwas Manral, Founder and CEO of Precize Inc. and a major contributor to the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
We dive deep into the "messy middle" of AI in cybersecurity. While AI has revolutionized how fast we can find and fix vulnerabilities, the critical gap of assessing business impact and understanding enterprise context remains a congested, single-lane freeway.
What You’ll Learn:
◈ The "Messy Middle": Why a lack of business context is the primary bottleneck slowing down AI automation.
◈ Agentic Automation Risks: Why moving autonomous agents from a POC lab to production is incredibly risky without proper data hygiene.
◈ The Context Gap: Why having the smartest LLMs means nothing if your enterprise data is fragmented, outdated, or unstructured.
◈ Decision as a Service: The inevitable shift from SaaS to DaaS and the massive opportunity in building a true context fabric for your enterprise.
Key Moments:
00:00 ➔ Introduction: AI's missing link and the problem with Business Impact Analysis.
02:05 ➔ The "Messy Middle": Finding problems vs. taking API-driven action.
05:28 ➔ Extrapolating Data: Why a single LLM isn't enough to understand unique corporate environments.
07:01 ➔ The 10% Confidence Gap: Why most automation gets permanently stuck in the test lab.
11:01 ➔ The Hygiene Problem: Why an autonomous agent might accidentally nuke your production environment.
16:13 ➔ THE QUOTE: "We are moving from software as a service to a decision as a service."
🎙️ Meet the Guest:
Vishwas Manral is the Founder and CEO of Precize Inc. A serial entrepreneur and leading mind in cybersecurity, Vishwas has a proven track record of seeing the next big industry problem and building the exact technology needed to solve it. His current focus is on building the context fabric required to make AI and agentic workflows safe for enterprise production environments.
➔ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishwasmanral/
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Disclaimer: The views expressed are those of the speakers.
