CSA San Diego May Event - Save the Date

Save the date for CSA San Diego's next joint event with ISACA San Diego and sponsored by Fire Mountain Labs.

Topic
Hunting for Weakness in a Cloud-Native AI - How Generative Agents Can Be Exploited

Agenda:
Session 1 - Interactive Session (20m)
This interactive session explores generative cloud AI agents like Copilot, focusing on how their architecture introduces unique risks across ingestion, retrieval, and generation. Attendees will learn to identify vulnerabilities through threat modeling, examine real-world attack scenarios such as prompt injection and data poisoning, and walk away with practical defensive strategies to secure AI-assisted workflows. Live Q&A and audience participation are encouraged throughout.

• Why Cloud AI Agents Introduce New Risks
  Understand the architecture behind agents like Copilot and why traditional security models fall short.

• Threat Modeling Generative Agents
  Identify failure points across the ingestion-to-generation pipeline and learn how to assess them.

• Case Study: Attacking a Generative Cloud Agent
  Explore real-world examples including prompt injection via email and document poisoning.

• Defensive Takeaways
  Actionable steps to reduce risk through containment, governance, and retrieval oversight.

• Open Q&A Throughout
  Active participation is welcomed as part of the session’s flow.

Session 2 - Scenario-Based Guided Discussions (20m)
We facilitate an open-ended discussion around a threat scenario involving a cloud-deployed agent. We ask exploratory questions, both human-centered and AI-centered, derived from real-world scenarios where trust in AI was either established or compromised.

Speakers:
Joshua D. Harguess, PhD
CTO, Fire Mountain Labs
Chris M. Ward
CEO, Fire Mountain Labs

Parking Info:

There is NO FREE PARKING OR DISCOUNTED PARKING ON SITE
There is free street parking off Executive Drive.