AI Governance and Guardrails with Jon Zeolla

Everyone is getting more done with AI. Nobody wants to be the person who slows that down - so how do we protect it without grinding it to a halt? It all comes down to tradeoffs.

Jon Zeolla is an AI startup founder, Agentic AI Foundation Ambassador, and SANS Instructor with over 15 years of experience in infosec working on securing cloud native platforms and software companies.

Most guardrail advice starts with a tool list. This talk focuses on the workflow, and where controls can attach at each stage. In practice that means getting observability and governance into your agents, using verifiers to check their work, and using context engineering to help engineers move faster while keeping security part of the job.

Walk away with pro tips, implementation details for each approach, and a clear enough view of the tradeoffs to decide what your team should take on next.