June CSides Security Meet

### AGNTCY AND THE INTERNET OF AGENTS

AI agents are increasingly being assembled into specialised teams, but most of them are built in isolation, unable to find, trust, or work with agents across organisational boundaries. Cisco's solution and initiative, AGNTCY, is the open-source infrastructure for an interoperable "Internet of Agents," now under the Linux Foundation and backed by Cisco, Google Cloud, Dell, Oracle, and Red Hat. This talk will walk AGNTCY's stack and its primitives like agent discovery, identity, secure messaging, and observability, see how it fits alongside emerging standards (e.g, MCP & A2A), discuss security considerations (e.g, in the context of the lethal trifecta and OWASP Top 10 for agentic applications), look at a live demo (CoffeeAgntcy), and explore the Internet of Cognition (Cisco's vision for agents).

#### Isaac

Isaac is a first year undergraduate UNSW student. He is passionate about FLOSS, technological progress, and completing his cyber security degree, minoring in intelligent cyber security.

### Long-Term Thinking: Records Management and the Future of AI

In this presentation John will explore why long‑term thinking must guide Australia’s approach to artificial intelligence. Building on the “maintenance mindset” championed by the likes of the ‘Long Now Foundation’, he argues that AI will only serve as reliable national infrastructure if the records and data beneath it are carefully stewarded over time. Innovation may set AI in motion, but it is disciplined maintenance, metadata quality, context, authenticity, and preservation that keeps it on course. John will challenge the sector to see information management as nothing less than the maintenance engine of the AI era. By treating information as a 100‑year asset rather than a short‑term resource, records professionals can shape AI systems that remain accurate, ethical, and resilient for generations. This session is a call to action for Australia’s custodians of information: the future of AI depends on the care you take today.

#### John Cox

As a RIMPA Global (Records and Information Management Practitioners Alliance) Ambassador and Business Development Manager at DatacomIT, John Cox has built his career at the intersection of information governance, digital preservation, and emerging technology. Drawing on decades of industry experience working on projects as varied as e-Discovery processing for the 2003 ACT Bush Fires matter, ballot capture for Federal elections and preservation digitisation of high value records for Royal Commissions, John brings a uniquely practical and future‑focused perspective on how rigorous records management underpins trustworthy, enduring information systems.

General Info:
CSides Monthly Security Meetups provide an opportunity to listen to and share security research within the Canberra region. The meeting occurs normally on the 2nd Friday of every month. Each meetup consists of 1-2 talks of around 30 mins each. Talks start at 6pm and are followed by some socialising at a local pub. New attendees are welcome, just come along! (There are no entry fees, and no tickets to book) The talks at CSides are technical. CSides welcomes new and interesting speakers to present - the topic will be on a technical or security issue. As a speaker you can be an expert, a student, someone learning a new area or maybe a regular speaker on the conference circuit, but we also love to have new and occasional speakers. Please contact one of the organisers below if you are interested in speaking. You are very welcome to propose running activites other than talks, such as hands-on workshops, an infosec quiz or something else relevant to our techie audience!