Turbo Talks · Online Talk Series
Twenty minutes. Live and on demand. FireCompass founders, engineers, and advisors on what changes when attacks move at machine speed, and what security teams should do about it.
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Turbo Talks is a free webinar series from FireCompass. Each session, a founder, engineer, or advisor runs a 20-minute live session on agentic AI pentesting, AI model and agent safety, and how security teams should adapt as attacks move at machine speed.
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Meet the Speakers
Arnab Chattopadhayay
Co-founder & VP of Emerging Research, FireCompass
More than 23 years solving hard IT security problems, with leadership roles at British Telecom, Tech Mahindra, iViZ (Synopsys), MetricStream, Capgemini, and IBM. Deep grounding in the engineering behind autonomous offensive security, including the guardrails, cost controls, and oversight models that decide whether an agent is safe to run inside a live enterprise.
Bikash Barai
Founder & CEO, FireCompass
Serial security entrepreneur with multiple USPTO patents in network security. Recognised in Fortune's 40-under-40 and a speaker at RSA Conference and TEDx. Earlier founded iViZ, the first company to take penetration testing to the cloud, later acquired by Synopsys.
Ed Adams
Former CEO, Security Innovation · Advisor, FireCompass
Led Security Innovation as CEO for over 20 years, building it into a leading application security training and services firm. Ponemon Institute Research Fellow and author of See Yourself in Cyber: Security Careers Beyond Hacking. Has presented at RSA Conference, InfoSec World, and hundreds of industry events on risk-based approaches to securing software.
Zak Raxter
Senior Solutions Architect, Offensive Security, FireCompass
More than ten years in offensive security, AppSec, and DevSecOps, with security engineering roles at Juniper Square, Prudential Financial, and Mosaic Group. Built endpoint protection, vulnerability management, and internal bug bounty programs from the ground up. Specializes in red teaming, adversary emulation, and incident forensics, with hands-on experience addressing critical vulnerabilities across production applications and services.
Benjamin Lutz
Director, Sales, FireCompass
Worked with CISOs, AppSec leaders, and engineering executives to build application security programs across SMB and enterprise organizations. Previously spent four and a half years at Veracode, progressing from strategic business development to Senior Enterprise Account Manager. Brings a buyer-focused perspective on evaluating security solutions and reducing software risk without slowing delivery.
Thursdays, 10 September 2026 to 18 February 2027. 11:30 AM ET / 7:30 PM GST / 9:00 PM IST. One registration covers all seven sessions.
Arnab Chattopadhayay, Co-founder & VP of Emerging Research
Beyond Guardrails: A Technical Deep Dive into AI Model Safety, Agent Safety & Governance
Model alignment is only one part of the problem. A technical look at where agent safety diverges from model safety, and how to govern systems that are probabilistic by design.
Bikash Barai, Founder & CEO
Why Traditional ASM and CTEM Tools Will Fail in the Next 12 Months
AI is collapsing the attacker timeline, exposing "depth debt" in current ASM and CTEM tools. Why the gap compounds, and how to close it.
Zak Raxter, Senior Solutions Architect, Offensive Security
Field Notes from Black Hat & DEF CON 2026: What Changed in the Attacker Playbook?
Black Hat shows where the industry is going. DEF CON shows how attackers plan to break it. Field notes on what shifted this year.
Ed Adams, Former CEO, Security Innovation · Advisor, FireCompass
20 Years of AppSec: What AI Changes, and What It Doesn't
Two decades of secure coding, SAST, DAST, and Shift Left, and the same vulnerability classes keep reaching production. What breaks differently now that both code and attacks run at machine speed.
Bikash Barai, Founder & CEO
Safe AI Agents: Practical Implementation Strategies for Guardrails, Scope Enforcement and Governance
As offensive AI agents get more capable, control becomes the harder problem. Practical guardrails and governance for deploying them safely.
Bikash Barai & Benjamin Lutz, Founder & CEO and Director, Sales
Evaluation Criteria for AI Pentesting Vendors: A Technical Buyer Checklist
Every vendor claims AI now. The technical, operational, and economic questions that actually separate AI-native platforms from scanners with an AI wrapper.
Bikash Barai, Founder & CEO
How Our AI Reached the HackerOne Top 3 and What We Learned
90 days on live bug bounty programs. 204 valid reports. Top 3 across multiple HackerOne leaderboards, using AI agents alone. What that revealed about AI pentesting today.
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