Subscribe Share Full episode and show notes Vulnerability Management , AI/ML , AI benefits/risks The Next Frontier: Autonomous Security and RSAC Interviews from Quantro & SandboxAQ – Mark Hughes, Mehul Revankar, Marc Manzano – BSW #445 Attackers are increasingly weaponizing frontier models to accelerate the entire attack lifecycle, with current and emerging models reducing the time and expertise needed to start disruptive attacks. As offensive capabilities become more automated and agentic, organizations will need security programs that are equally autonomous, coordinated and continuous. But where do you start? Mark Hughes, Global Managing Partner, Cybersecurity Services at IBM, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss autonomous security, the next frontier of cybersecurity services. IBM recently announced IBM Autonomous Security, a separate service that uses AI agents to analyze software exposures and runtime environme... April 29, 2026 This episode is sponsored by Full Segment Notes Attackers are increasingly weaponizing frontier models to accelerate the entire attack lifecycle, with current and emerging models reducing the time and expertise needed to start disruptive attacks. As offensive capabilities become more automated and agentic, organizations will need security programs that are equally autonomous, coordinated and continuous. But where do you start? Mark Hughes, Global Managing Partner, Cybersecurity Services at IBM, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss autonomous security, the next frontier of cybersecurity services. IBM recently announced IBM Autonomous Security, a separate service that uses AI agents to analyze software exposures and runtime environments. Mark will discuss the fears and hype of AI and how agentic AI agents can identify paths in an enterprise security environment that can be exploited, improve cyber hygiene, and enforce security policies. As frontier models, like Mythos, accelerate attacks, security programs need to respond with speed, at scale, to drive the right business outcomes. AI Agents for Vulnerability Management Introducing Quantro Security, Inc., a new agentic AI solution bringing AI agents to vulnerability management. The company is focused on applying agentic AI to help address modern security challenges. In this interview, we’ll learn more about Quantro Security, Inc., its approach, and what this new solution means for the future of vulnerability management. This segment is sponsored by Quantro Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/quantrorsac to learn more about them! The Guardrails are Gone: The Onus for AI Security Is On the Enterprise AI model providers are increasingly stepping back from enforcing guardrails, putting the responsibility for AI security squarely on enterprises. But most organizations don't yet have the visibility to meet that responsibility, facing a blind spot across the broader ecosystem of AI systems already operating in their environments. Closing that gap requires unified visibility across both AI systems and the cryptographic infrastructure they touch, so security teams can assess risk and act on it in one place. Visit https://securityweekly.com/sandboxaqrsac to discover how enterprises are taking control of their AI security with AQtive Guard AI-SPM by SandboxAQ. Guests Mark Hughes Global Managing Partner, Cybersecurity Services at IBM Mark Hughes leads IBM’s global cybersecurity team of over 5,000 experts in helping organizations transform security into a business enabler and establish cyber resiliency. His role spans the sales and services delivery of threat detection and response, data security, cloud security, IAM, infrastructure, risk management, and ecosystem partnerships. Mehul Revankar Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Quantro Security, Inc. Mehul is a seasoned Cybersecurity Product Leader with a proven track record of building award-winning products and scaling B2B SaaS and open-source solutions. With over 20 years of experience in enterprise security, he has led product, engineering, and research teams at industry leaders like Qualys, and Tenable. He is now a Co-founder at Quantro Security where he is building agentic AI solutions for Enterprise Cyber Risk Management. Where he leads Product, Sales and Marketing. Marc Manzano General Manager, Cybersecurity Group at SandboxAQ Dr. Marc Manzano leads the cybersecurity group at Sandbox. His current research interests include post-quantum cryptography, lightweight cryptography, fully-homomorphic encryption, the intersection between machine learning and cryptanalysis, performance optimizations of cryptographic implementations on a wide range of architectures, and quantum algorithms. Manzano holds a Ph.D. in Computers Network Security, which he earned under the supervision of the University of Girona (Spain) and Kansas State University (United States). He earned an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Girona (Spain), while he did research stays at UC3M (Spain) and at DTU (Denmark). He initiated his research career while finalizing his BSc in Computer Engineering at Strathclyde University (UK). Over the past ten years, Manzano has led the development of many secure cryptographic libraries and protocols. Manzano was formerly a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, and before that, he was the Vice President of the Cryptography Research Centre at the Technology Innovation Institute, a UAE-based scientific research center. Prior to that, he held several positions where he was responsible for implementing pivotal cryptographic components of a variety of secure communication products, including an electronic voting platform. 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