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When Guardrails Break: Defense in Depth for Non-Deterministic AI
Organizations are deploying copilots, AI agents, and LLM-driven workflows into production faster than governance, identity architecture, and security operations can adapt. The problem is no longer simply “model risk.” Non-deterministic AI introduces a new attack surface across prompts, agents, data pipelines, toolchains, and runtime behavior. AI is also acting as both a defensive force multiplier and an adversarial accelerant. Static guardrails, prompt filters, and policy controls remain necessary, but they are not sufficient. They do not reliably detect novel behavior, unsafe tool use, goal drift, or risk that only becomes visible when an AI system interacts with identities, data, and downstream systems in context.
This webinar presents a defense-in-depth model for securing AI, built around the realities of runtime behavior. Using the NIST’s Secure / Defend / Thwart framing, it will show how to combine an identity control plane for agents, least privilege, and just-in-time access, secure-by-default configurations, runtime observability, behavior-based detection, anomaly detection, autonomous investigation, and autonomous containment. It will also explain why organizations should treat AI as both a new attack surface and an operational system that must be continuously monitored and contained when it behaves outside expected bounds.
A practical blueprint for a minimum viable AI security baseline will be presented for a sharper understanding of where foundational controls end, and a clear view of why behavioral oversight is becoming the decisive layer for securing AI at scale without slowing innovation.


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Nicole Carignan is Senior Vice President, Security and AI Strategy, Field CISO at Darktrace. In this role, Nicole is focused on providing technical, strategic guidance and expertise in cybersecurity, threat research, AI and data science to customers, partners, and organizations within Darktrace. An expert in the safe, secure and responsible application of AI in cybersecurity, Nicole engages in product innovation and advisory, thought leadership, research, and cybersecurity and AI community engagement to ensure Darktrace delivers solutions that meet customer’s evolving needs. Her insights have been cited by global cybersecurity publications, and she is a frequent speaker at industry
conferences and professional associations such as Women in Data Science, AUSA Cyberworld, ISACA Houston and more.
With over 25 years of experience, Nicole has deep expertise in data science, machine learning, cybersecurity, threat intelligence, operations and network engineering. Prior to Darktrace, Nicole served as the Head of North America Operations for CounterCraft Security, a leader in deception technology and threat intelligence solutions. Nicole worked in and supported the US federal government for over 20 years, serving in multiple technical and operational roles for the Intelligence Community and US Department of Defense and consulted on multiple large scale data science efforts.






