Security 27 July 2026 2 MIN

Cybersecurity Awesomeness Podcast - Episode 167

Listen to discover practical strategies for enabling AI innovation while reducing security risk, and learn how to build governance into AI agents without slowing your business down.

As AI agents gain the ability to access enterprise systems and take action, one question matters more than ever: How do you secure them?

In this episode of the Cybersecurity Awesomeness Podcast, EMA’s Chris Steffen sits down with Alex Salazar, Founder and CEO of Arcade.dev, to explore the security challenges of agentic AI—from delegated access and governance to authorization, guardrails, and why AI should never have unrestricted credentials.

Listen to discover practical strategies for enabling AI innovation while reducing security risk, and learn how to build governance into AI agents without slowing your business down.


 

Chris Steffen
Vice President of Research at Enterprise Management Associates
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Chris Steffen is the Researching Director for EMA, an analyst firm that looks at how companies manage their IT infrastructure from the data center out to the user environment and into the cloud. He is an experienced, high-performing information security expert with extensive experience in IT and security management.