Cybersecurity Roles in Practice
I spoke about securing AI agents at BICS × HiQ’s Cybersecurity Roles in Practice panel in Stockholm. The hour-long panel, held in English, covered everyday security work and routes into the field for students and career changers.
Cybersecurity Academy reported 140 attendees in its event recap archives: 1, 2, 3.
I am seated at the far right. Photo: Breaking into Cybersecurity archives: 1, 2, 3.
Some people stood to watch. I spoke with more than 30 attendees during the evening, and around 60 connected with me on LinkedIn.
How AI changes security work
An AI agent acts on someone’s behalf. I focused on whose permissions it uses, how to limit what it can do, and how to record its actions so we can tell what happened.
I discussed how my 2023 research on attacks on language models led to my work securing agents in production. For people starting out, I suggested exploring prompt injection, learning security frameworks, and building a small project they could secure.
The panel
I spoke alongside Anders Spalding (security protection), Louise Hellerström (governance, risk, and compliance), and Diyala Isabar (penetration testing) from HiQ; Albert Koubov Gonzalez (GRC and security auditing) from Reversec; and Patrik Nordlén (application security) from Gardera Security.
Caroline Forssblad spoke about communicating security clearly. The program included a SkillTap quiz and time to talk with the panelists.
Helen Mehari-Tesfay also shared her recap of the evening archives: 1, 2, 3.
Venue: HiQ, Katarinavägen 15, Stockholm.
See the organizers' panelist announcement on LinkedIn archives: 1, 2.
Event pages
The official Luma event page archives: 1, 2 includes the full agenda. The original BICS announcement archives: 1, 2 and Startskott listing archives: 1, 2 promoted the event. BICS Stockholm archives: 1, 2 describes the organizing community.