5 Pillar Framework for Building an Enterprise AI Agents Governance and Security Program
About This Session
Enterprises are deploying AI agents faster than any governance framework was designed to handle. AI agents make decisions, take actions, and interact with live enterprise systems in ways that are non-deterministic, difficult to audit, and rarely tied to a clear accountable owner.
The result is a governance vacuum. Security teams are responsible for the perimeter but not the agent. Legal owns data compliance but didn't approve the agent's tool access. Business units deployed the agent but don't monitor what it does post-launch. And when something goes wrong, a data leak, an unauthorized transaction, a compliance violation, nobody can reconstruct what the agent did, why, or on whose authority.
This session presents a practical enterprise governance framework built specifically for AI agents, designed from the ground up for the operational reality of autonomous systems acting inside corporate infrastructure.
This session introduces a 5-pillar governance framework built ground-up for agentic AI in enterprise environments, developed from real-world deployments and security incidents across industries.
The result is a governance vacuum. Security teams are responsible for the perimeter but not the agent. Legal owns data compliance but didn't approve the agent's tool access. Business units deployed the agent but don't monitor what it does post-launch. And when something goes wrong, a data leak, an unauthorized transaction, a compliance violation, nobody can reconstruct what the agent did, why, or on whose authority.
This session presents a practical enterprise governance framework built specifically for AI agents, designed from the ground up for the operational reality of autonomous systems acting inside corporate infrastructure.
This session introduces a 5-pillar governance framework built ground-up for agentic AI in enterprise environments, developed from real-world deployments and security incidents across industries.
Speaker
Ankita Gupta
Co-Founder & CEO - Akto IO Inc
Ankita Gupta is Co-Founder and CEO of Akto, an Agentic AI Security platform securing AI agents across Enterprises. With 15+ years across cybersecurity, engineering, and go-to-market leadership at VMware, LinkedIn, and JPMorgan Chase, she holds a masters from Dartmouth College.
She is a leading voice in AI and application security, Ankita speaks at Black Hat USA, OWASP, Defcon, RSA, and GraphQLConf. She serves on the CSA AI Safety Council and is a Forbes Technology Council member.
Her work focuses on securing autonomous AI behavior, Enterprise AI Governance, and emerging risks around AI agents and MCP ecosystems. She runs an AI Security newsletter with 5,000+ subscribers and is followed by 25,000+ security professionals on LinkedIn.
She is a leading voice in AI and application security, Ankita speaks at Black Hat USA, OWASP, Defcon, RSA, and GraphQLConf. She serves on the CSA AI Safety Council and is a Forbes Technology Council member.
Her work focuses on securing autonomous AI behavior, Enterprise AI Governance, and emerging risks around AI agents and MCP ecosystems. She runs an AI Security newsletter with 5,000+ subscribers and is followed by 25,000+ security professionals on LinkedIn.