In this ROCon 2025 Fireside Chat, Dilip Bachwani, CTO and EVP of Cloud Platform at Qualys, sits down with Jim Reavis, CEO of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), to explore how autonomous and agentic AI are transforming enterprise security, innovation, and compliance. The conversation dives into the opportunities and challenges of integrating AI agents into real-world operations — from efficiency and automation to identity, oversight, and regulatory alignment. Together, Bachwani and Reavis unpack how AI’s potential to act, reason, and adapt introduces new dimensions of both risk and responsibility. Highlights include: •How agentic AI enables autonomous decision-making and predictive risk reduction •Balancing innovation with security guardrails and human oversight •Emerging frameworks from CSA, including AI safety, agent identity, and continuous monitoring •The evolving role of Zero Trust, identity, and compliance in an AI-driven world •How enterprises can embrace innovation without compromising accountability Reavis shares how the Cloud Security Alliance is helping shape the future of responsible AI adoption through global standards, identity maturity models, and AI safety certification programs. Bachwani discusses how Qualys is integrating generative and agentic AI into its Risk Operations Center (ROC) and TruRisk platform, creating “digital employees” that help automate and scale cybersecurity at enterprise levels. Recorded live at ROCon 2025 – The Risk Operations Conference, presented by Qualys.

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