Turbo Talks · Live Session
Almost every security vendor now claims to use AI. The harder question is how to distinguish an AI-native pentesting platform from a traditional scanner with an AI wrapper. Bikash Barai and Benjamin Lutz lead a joint session on the technical, operational, and economic criteria security leaders should use when evaluating AI pentesting vendors.
When
Thursday, January 14, 2027
9:00 PM IST · 11:30 AM ET · 7:30 PM GST
Speakers
Bikash Barai & Benjamin Lutz
Founder & CEO · Director, Sales, FireCompass
Format
Live, 20 minutes
One sharp topic, with time for your questions
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Your Speakers
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.
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.
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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.
Thursday, January 14, 2027. 9:00 PM IST / 11:30 AM ET / 7:30 PM GST.
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