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The AI Already Inside Your Company with Russell Spitler & Richard Penshorn
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A year ago, the average employee held about 30 OAuth grants. Today that number has risen to 88, and it isn't slowing down. Ron sits down with Russell Spitler, co-founder and CEO of Nudge Security, and Richard Penshorn, a senior security engineer at a top financial services company, to talk about the AI already living inside your business. Ron, Russell, and Richard dig into why shadow AI doesn't behave like shadow IT, how one forgotten grant became the door into a real world breach, and whether AI agents should ever get access to a corporate inbox. Underneath...
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It was an average of 30 per employee a year ago and now it's up to 88.
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We should probably be very careful about doing that.
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OAuth Grants. Do people still get that knee-jerk reaction just to click connect? The number of OAuth Grants has substantially risen over the last 12 months. It was an average of 30 per employee a year ago and now it's up to 88. What are your thoughts on giving an AI agent access to your corporate email?
We should probably be very careful about doing that. Email is like prompt injection 101 as an attacker. We need to be conservative in terms of how we implement this technology to filter out the world around us.
What's going on, Hackat Valley fam? Welcome back to the show. It's your host, Ron Eddings, and today we're talking about the AI that's already inside of your environment.
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