NODES AI 2026 - Building Secure Services with AI Agents: Patterns From Real-World Engineering

This talk features Marat Kenzhebulatov at NODES AI discussing "Building Secure Services with AI Agents: Practical Patterns From Real-World Engineering". The speaker addresses the challenge of integrating agentic AI into security-critical systems while minimizing the attack surface. Drawing from his experience at Booking.com and in fintech, Kenzhebulatov shares tangible lessons on securing backend services that manage sensitive data, emphasizing the importance of secure engineering fundamentals in the context of evolving AI technologies. The session covers practical patterns for integrating AI agents into CI/CD workflows, implementing guardrails, and performing risk analysis, offering actionable insights for security engineers, DevOps practitioners, platform owners, and AI developers.