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AI Agents Security: Guardrails & Red Teaming
AI Agents Security: Guardrails & Red Teaming
# 🚀 AiSec Eng Spain x Madrid DevOps x HackerDreams x Valkyrias 📅 **6 de mayo de 2026** 🕖 **18:00 (CEST)** 📍 **Lugar:** Fundación Juan XXIII-Roncalli 📍 **Dirección:** Av. Gran Vía del Este, 1, Vicálvaro, 28032 Madrid ## 🧠 Workshop ### 🎯 **Keeping Your Agents on a Leash: Agentic Guardrails, MCP Security, AI BOMs & Chatbot Red-Teaming** *** ### 👨‍💻 Ponente **Javier Garza** Developer Advocate en Snyk (San Francisco) *** ### 🧾 Mini-biografía Javier Garza es un evangelista tecnológico que ha escrito numerosos artículos sobre HTTP/2, seguridad y rendimiento web, y es coautor del libro de O'Reilly Media *Learning HTTP/2*. Ha participado como ponente en más de 30 eventos alrededor del mundo, incluyendo conferencias reconocidas como Velocity Conference, AWS re y PerfMatters Conference. Además, es el anfitrión del chapter **AI Security Engineers San Francisco Bay Area** dentro de la comunidad de Snyk. 💡 *Su lema:* “Comparte lo que aprendes y aprende lo que no sabes.” En su tiempo libre disfruta de entrenamientos exigentes y de hacer voluntariado con organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro. *** ### 📚 Descripción del workshop En este taller práctico centrado en IA aprenderás a: * 🔐 Programar de forma segura utilizando herramientas de *coding* con agentes de IA como Cursor AI code editor, Claude AI assistant, GitHub Copilot, entre otras. * ⚠️ Detectar riesgos como *tool poisoning*, inyecciones de *prompt* y vulnerabilidades en flujos MCP utilizando herramientas CLI. * 🛡️ Realizar *AI red teaming* contra sistemas de IA, endpoints de LLM y APIs para descubrir riesgos como *jailbreaks*, fuga de datos y comportamientos inseguros. *** ## 🌐 Comunidad 👉 Únete a Discord: [https://devseccon.io/discordcommunity](https://devseccon.io/discordcommunity) 📢 **Telegram:** * [https://t.me/hackerdreamsdcomm](https://t.me/hackerdreamsdcomm) * [https://t.me/hackbcn](https://t.me/hackbcn) * [https://t.me/+EQXjdGyWYPAotmLG](https://t.me/+EQXjdGyWYPAotmLG) * [https://t.me/xopsnoticias](https://t.me/xopsnoticias) * [https://t.me/xopshispano](https://t.me/xopshispano) 🐦 **X (Twitter):** * @hunters_flag * @hackerdreamsorg * @hackbcn * @xopsconference *** ## 🤝 Colaboración y patrocinio Si tu empresa quiere colaborar o patrocinar futuros eventos: 📩 **Email:** [info@hackerdreams.org](mailto:info@hackerdreams.org) 📝 **Formulario:** [https://forms.gle/JbBwUGY26fAeLqJ78](https://forms.gle/JbBwUGY26fAeLqJ78) 💸 **Donaciones:** * [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8UHV5UN47J3DY](https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8UHV5UN47J3DY) * [https://bmc.link/hackerdreams](https://bmc.link/hackerdreams) *

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AI Agents Security: Guardrails & Red Teaming
AI Agents Security: Guardrails & Red Teaming
# 🚀 AiSec Eng Spain x Madrid DevOps x HackerDreams x Valkyrias 📅 **6 de mayo de 2026** 🕖 **18:00 (CEST)** 📍 **Lugar:** Fundación Juan XXIII-Roncalli 📍 **Dirección:** Av. Gran Vía del Este, 1, Vicálvaro, 28032 Madrid ## 🧠 Workshop ### 🎯 **Keeping Your Agents on a Leash: Agentic Guardrails, MCP Security, AI BOMs & Chatbot Red-Teaming** *** ### 👨‍💻 Ponente **Javier Garza** Developer Advocate en Snyk (San Francisco) *** ### 🧾 Mini-biografía Javier Garza es un evangelista tecnológico que ha escrito numerosos artículos sobre HTTP/2, seguridad y rendimiento web, y es coautor del libro de O'Reilly Media *Learning HTTP/2*. Ha participado como ponente en más de 30 eventos alrededor del mundo, incluyendo conferencias reconocidas como Velocity Conference, AWS re y PerfMatters Conference. Además, es el anfitrión del chapter **AI Security Engineers San Francisco Bay Area** dentro de la comunidad de Snyk. 💡 *Su lema:* “Comparte lo que aprendes y aprende lo que no sabes.” En su tiempo libre disfruta de entrenamientos exigentes y de hacer voluntariado con organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro. *** ### 📚 Descripción del workshop En este taller práctico centrado en IA aprenderás a: * 🔐 Programar de forma segura utilizando herramientas de *coding* con agentes de IA como Cursor AI code editor, Claude AI assistant, GitHub Copilot, entre otras. * ⚠️ Detectar riesgos como *tool poisoning*, inyecciones de *prompt* y vulnerabilidades en flujos MCP utilizando herramientas CLI. * 🛡️ Realizar *AI red teaming* contra sistemas de IA, endpoints de LLM y APIs para descubrir riesgos como *jailbreaks*, fuga de datos y comportamientos inseguros. *** ## 🌐 Comunidad 👉 Únete a Discord: [https://devseccon.io/discordcommunity](https://devseccon.io/discordcommunity) 📢 **Telegram:** * [https://t.me/hackerdreamsdcomm](https://t.me/hackerdreamsdcomm) * [https://t.me/hackbcn](https://t.me/hackbcn) * [https://t.me/+EQXjdGyWYPAotmLG](https://t.me/+EQXjdGyWYPAotmLG) * [https://t.me/xopsnoticias](https://t.me/xopsnoticias) * [https://t.me/xopshispano](https://t.me/xopshispano) 🐦 **X (Twitter):** * @hunters_flag * @hackerdreamsorg * @hackbcn * @xopsconference *** ## 🤝 Colaboración y patrocinio Si tu empresa quiere colaborar o patrocinar futuros eventos: 📩 **Email:** [info@hackerdreams.org](mailto:info@hackerdreams.org) 📝 **Formulario:** [https://forms.gle/JbBwUGY26fAeLqJ78](https://forms.gle/JbBwUGY26fAeLqJ78) 💸 **Donaciones:** * [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8UHV5UN47J3DY](https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8UHV5UN47J3DY) * [https://bmc.link/hackerdreams](https://bmc.link/hackerdreams) *

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Saturday Mornings @ East Market
Saturday Mornings @ East Market
Let's grab some coffee/food and share a morning chat! The East Market has an ample parking lot and outdoor and indoor seating. Grab a cup of coffee from Winston's Coffee & Waffles or on your way to East Market and meet us on the second floor - table behind or east of the elevator. Per what this group is about: "Everyone is welcome! International transplants to Columbus who want to improve language skills, Columbus residents who enjoy talking to people from other countries, and those who would like to discuss international travel and culture, and who enjoy getting together for good conversations."
Saturday Mornings @ East Market
Saturday Mornings @ East Market
Let's grab some coffee/food and share a morning chat! The East Market has an ample parking lot and outdoor and indoor seating. Grab a cup of coffee from Winston's Coffee & Waffles or on your way to East Market and meet us on the second floor - table behind or east of the elevator. Per what this group is about: "Everyone is welcome! International transplants to Columbus who want to improve language skills, Columbus residents who enjoy talking to people from other countries, and those who would like to discuss international travel and culture, and who enjoy getting together for good conversations."
Richmond Verified Locals Professional Singles Event
Richmond Verified Locals Professional Singles Event
💡 **Richmond Online Speed Dating — Where Meaningful Starts** If you're someone who's been holding back — maybe you're a bit introverted, maybe you've never tried speed dating, or maybe you just haven't found the right setting — this is that setting. Everyone here is looking for something that lasts. Not a match that fades after a week — something real, meaningful, and worth building on. Live on Zoom from wherever you are. Short rounds, real people, all local to Richmond. Matched by age so conversations actually go somewhere. **Find your age group and sign up:** - Ages 18-32: [Register Here](https://tempodating.com/product?productId=481.0&productType=onlineSpeedDating&city=Richmond&groupurlname=downtown-singles-serious-about-meaningful-bonds&ar=18-32&face_v=3.0) - Ages 30-46: [Register Here](https://tempodating.com/product?productId=481.0&productType=onlineSpeedDating&city=Richmond&groupurlname=downtown-singles-serious-about-meaningful-bonds&ar=30-46&face_v=3.0) - Ages 40-58: [Register Here](https://tempodating.com/product?productId=481.0&productType=onlineSpeedDating&city=Richmond&groupurlname=downtown-singles-serious-about-meaningful-bonds&ar=40-58&face_v=3.0) - Ages 55+: [Register Here](https://tempodating.com/product?productId=481.0&productType=onlineSpeedDating&city=Richmond&groupurlname=downtown-singles-serious-about-meaningful-bonds&ar=55+&face_v=3.0) ⚠️ RSVPing here does not hold your place. You must register through the link above and complete the short personality quiz to be confirmed. --- **What happens next:** 1. Click your age group link above, register, and fill in the short personality questionnaire. 2. At event time, open your Zoom link. Any device works — phone, tablet, laptop. 3. Spend a few minutes with each Richmond local in private one-on-one rounds, matched by age and personality. 4. After it ends, mutual matches are sent to you so you can take things at your own pace. Small groups. Real rounds. Actual chemistry. If finding someone meaningful matters to you, this is the most direct path there.
Conversation and Coffee @ Belle's Bread Bakery
Conversation and Coffee @ Belle's Bread Bakery
Hey Everyone! Let's meet at Belle's Bread Bakery and Cafe. There is lots of free parking and easy access to the cafe and many shops and restaurants as well. This is a great way to meet new and old friends while chatting about life and practicing English language speaking skills. All are welcome and encouraged to join us anytime between 11am and 1pm. Looking forward to seeing you soon.
Conversation and Coffee @ Belle's Bread Bakery
Conversation and Coffee @ Belle's Bread Bakery
Hey Everyone! Let's meet at Belle's Bread Bakery and Cafe. There is lots of free parking and easy access to the cafe and many shops and restaurants as well. This is a great way to meet new and old friends while chatting about life and practicing English language speaking skills. All are welcome and encouraged to join us anytime between 11am and 1pm. Looking forward to seeing you soon.
Duty vs. Results: What Makes an Action Moral?
Duty vs. Results: What Makes an Action Moral?
When judging morality, should we prioritize **intentions/duty** or **outcomes/results**? It introduces two influential philosophers as representatives of these approaches. * **Immanuel Kant (deontology):** An action is moral when it is done from **duty** and follows rational, universal principles (the **categorical imperative**). Certain acts—like lying—are wrong regardless of the consequences; you can’t do a wrong thing for a right reason. * **John Stuart Mill (utilitarian consequentialism):** The morality of an action is determined by its **effects**, specifically how much **happiness/well-being** it produces. Mill argues that some pleasures are “higher” than others, and that good intentions don’t redeem harmful outcomes. ## Discussion Questions 1. **The lying dilemma:** A murderer comes to your door and asks if your friend is hiding inside. Kant would say you must not lie. 2. **Can good intentions rescue a bad outcome?** 3. **The organ harvest problem:** A surgeon has five patients dying of organ failure and one healthy patient in for a checkup. Killing the one to harvest organs would save five lives, and the math works out for the utilitarian. Why does this feel so deeply wrong? Is that feeling a point in Kant's favor, or just a bias we should overcome? 4. **Do rules need exceptions?** Kant insists moral rules must be universal, with no exceptions. But most of us can imagine extreme scenarios where any rule seems like it should bend. Does the need for exceptions fatally undermine deontology, or is the strength of the system precisely that it refuses to bend? 5. **Who gets to calculate the consequences?** Utilitarianism asks us to maximize good outcomes, but we're notoriously bad at predicting consequences. If we can't reliably know the results of our actions, is it practical to base our entire moral system on outcomes? Does this uncertainty push us back toward rules and principles? 6. **Everyday morality:** Think about a real moral decision you've made recently, even a small one. Did you reason more like a Kantian (what's the right thing to do in principle?) or more like a utilitarian (what will produce the best result?)? Do most people naturally lean one way? 7. **Justice vs. the greater good:** A town can prevent a deadly plague by sacrificing one innocent person. The greater good is clearly served. But is it just? Can an action be morally right and deeply unjust at the same time? 8. **The big synthesis question:** Are these two systems actually opposed, or do they often arrive at the same answers by different paths? Is it possible that we need both: rules to guide us in the moment and consequences to evaluate systems and policies over time?
Psychic Development Series  II - Pueo Group
Psychic Development Series II - Pueo Group
Private Group. Closed to the Public Knowing ourselves and understanding our abilities is the first step toward wielding our gifts with control and accuracy. In subsequent classes we will verify and hone our talents with activities and discussion. These are hands-on workshops and participation is expected. The goal of our series will be to develop expertise in areas of particular interest such as mediumship, channeling, divination, healing and, etc.. Our ultimate directions will be determined by class members as we evolve. I look forward to sharing and discovering with you. - Cynthia