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Manoj Nair — CTO and Chief Innovation Officer at Snyk
#46 Jul 21

Episode 46 · Jul 21

Security Isn't the Brake, It's the Throttle: Snyk CTO Manoj Nair on Securing Agents at Machine Speed

Manoj Nair · CTO and Chief Innovation Officer at Snyk

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We sit down with Manoj Nair, CTO and Chief Innovation Officer at Snyk, at Snyk HQ during AI Engineer World's Fair to dig into the architectural decision he argues the next 24 months of agentic security depend on: the generator cannot be the validator. We get into why the fox guarding the henhouse is suddenly a live security question, since if you can use AI to secure AI, do you still need a separate security offering, and why the thing generating code cannot be the thing validating it. Manoj explains why finding vulnerabilities was never the hard part and fixing them safely inside the loop is, and why securing at inception means combining independent models with deterministic data and security research rather than just pointing one model at your codebase. He walks through Snyk's Evo, an agentic security orchestrator built on the fighter-pilot OODA loop that turns a security engineer into a 10X AI security operator, why the agents' own supply chain of MCP servers and skills they pull at runtime is now its own attack surface, and why he sees security as the throttle, not the brake.

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