Adversarial Intelligence: Production AI Systems Through the Eyes of the Attacker
About This Session
This presentation explores Adversarial Intelligence - an approach that views the security of AI applications from an attacker’s perspective. Drawing from vulnerability research experience at the NSO Group and building Pegasus, the speaker will highlight how overlooked low and medium vulnerabilities can be combined to execute successful attacks. By examining attack chains and application runtime behavior, attendees will see how gaps often missed by traditional methods are exposed. Attendees will learn about effective tools and techniques for detecting and mitigating these threats, especially in cloud-native and distributed systems. Designed for security practitioners and academics, this session provides a deeper understanding of defending against emerging attack patterns specific to AI applications by adopting their mindset.
Speaker

Mahesh Babu
CMO - Kodem Security
Mahesh Babu is a former VP of Information Security turned company builder and now leads strategy and growth for Kodem, venture‑backed application security startup. At HSBC he built and scaled global application‑security and identity‑access‑management platforms that safeguard billions of transactions. His career began at Purdue University’s Information Assurance & Security Research Center, where he researched secure software engineering. Mahesh blends academic rigor with enterprise and startup execution to help organizations stay ahead of modern threats.