ActiveFence CEO Noam Schwartz discusses how his company evolved from protecting platforms against user-generated harmful content to helping companies deploy public-facing AI safely at scale.

Topics Include:

• Noam Schwartz introduces himself as ActiveFence CEO
• Former intelligence officer specializing in open source intelligence
• Mission: protect online experiences for everyone everywhere
• Online platforms constantly hammered by various attacks
• Attacks include cybersecurity, abuse, hate speech, spam
• Companies playing endless whack-a-mole game with violations
• Need scalable solution that works across languages/formats
• Developed enterprise-grade technology for sophisticated companies
• Amazon became customer and great partner early on
• Generative AI introduction changed the game completely
• LLMs non-deterministic unlike traditional programmed chatbots
• Same input produces different outputs each time
• AI deployed in customer support, healthcare, airlines
• New risks when models speak on company's behalf
• One bad output creates legal and reputational damage
• Companies need to deploy public-facing AI safely
• Transition affects healthcare, finance, gaming, government sectors
• Building on years of user-generated content expertise
• No specific ChatGPT moment triggered their AI pivot
• ActiveFence was AI company since day one
• Model companies like Amazon, Nvidia asked for help
• Realized their expertise perfectly suited for AI safety
• Staying on top of AI developments is impossible
• Focus on customer adoption, not every new release
• Main enterprise challenge is trusting AI technology
• Unrealistic expectations for 100% accuracy from AI
• Most companies will license existing models, not build
• Security solutions remain independent like traditional cybersecurity

Participants:

• Noam Schwartz – CEO and Co-Founder, ActiveFence
• Ofer Oringher – Software and Technology Account Manager, AWS

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Jeff Moncrief discusses Sonrai Security's Cloud Permissions Firewall, and the best practices for using AI-powered summaries and orchestration to ensure security at all points.

Topics Include:

• Jeff Moncrief introduces Sonrai Security and Cloud Permissions Firewall
• Focus on achieving least privilege access in AWS quickly
• Lightweight orchestration layer secures IAM from inside out
• Eliminates need to write hundreds of individual policies
• Customers struggle with identity risk in CNAP/CSPM tools
• Generative AI adoption driving top security use cases
• Bedrock and AI agents mentioned daily by customers
• Product managers should consider underlying platform security risks
• AI models have control over infrastructure they run on
• Identity is fundamental infrastructure enabling AWS AI models
• Sonrai uses Bedrock capability inside Cloud Permissions Firewall
• Just-in-time access provides temporary, time-boxed AWS access
• Bedrock generates session summaries from audit logs automatically
• Plain English insights show what happened during sessions
• Session summaries improve audit compliance and incident response
• Customer with 1000 accounts manually deployed service controls
• Friday afternoon deployment caused very bad weekend disaster
• Policy inheritance issues broke child accounts and OUs
• Planning and orchestration essential for scaling AI security
• Sonrai platform built 100% cloud-native on AWS
• Coordinates service control policies and resource control policies
• Just-in-time access relies on IAM Identity Center
• Participates in ISV Accelerate and AWS Marketplace
• Security best practices start with identity as foundation
• "Hackers don't hack, they just log in" philosophy
• Eliminate standing privileges with just-in-time access patterns
• Restrict AI services by user, location, and account
• Review over-permissioned or inactive third-party vendor access
• Actionable insights through useful logging and AI summarization
• Future focus on protecting new services and permissions

Participants:

• Jeff Moncrief – Field CTO & Director of Sales Engineering, Sonrai Security

Links:

• Website – Sonraisecurity.com
• AWS Marketplace – Sonrai Security

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Akanksha Bilani of Intel shares how businesses can successfully adopt generative AI with significant performance gains while saving on costs.

Topics Include:

• Akanksha runs go-to-market team for Amazon at Intel
• Personal and business devices transformed how we communicate
• Forrester predicts 500 billion connected devices by 2026
• 5,000 billion sensors will be smartly connected online
• 40% of machines will communicate machine-to-machine
• We're living in a world of data deluge
• AI and Gen AI help make data effective
• Goal is making businesses more profitable and effective
• Various industries need Gen AI and data transformation
• Intel advises companies as partners with AWS
• Three factors determine which Gen AI use cases adopt
• Factor one: availability and ease of use cases
• How unique and important are they for business?
• Does it have enough data for right analytics?
• Factor two: purchasing power for Gen AI adoption
• 70% of companies target Gen AI but lack clarity
• Leaders must ensure capability and purchasing power exist
• Factor three: necessary skill sets for implementation
• Need access to right partnerships if lacking skills
• Intel and AWS partnered for 18 years since inception
• Intel provides latest silicon customized for Amazon services
• Engineer-to-engineer collaboration on each processor generation
• 92% of EC2 runs on Intel processors
• Intel powers compute capability for EC2-based services
• Intel ensures access to skillsets making cloud alive
• AWS services include Bedrock, SageMaker, DLAMIs, Kinesis
• Performance is the top three priorities for success
• Not every use case requires expensive GPU accelerators
• CPUs can power AI inference and training effectively
• Every GPU has a CPU head node component

Participants:

• Akanksha Bilani – Global Sales Director, Intel

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