Cloud Security Today AI agents and the future of cyber
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Mar 11, 2026 
Kelly Bissell, a seasoned cybersecurity leader from Accenture, Deloitte and Microsoft, shares stories from early internet security to modern AI-powered defense. He discusses pragmatic security that balances risk and usability. He explains using AI/ML and agent workflows for hunting, KYC, and automation. He covers identity-first controls, shifting talent toward data science, and building joyful, effective security teams.
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Built An Apple App In Hours With AI
- Kelly built an Apple app in about five hours using modern AI-assisted tooling and ended up with 2,800 lines of code.
- He contrasted that with weeks of prior manual work and noted his son built an app without touching code.
Automate Hunting With AI Now
- Do adopt AI/ML for security operations or risk being left behind; it enables automated hunting at extreme scale.
- Kelly used Azure ML, Claude, and Copilot to hunt trillions of transactions with a 0.02% false positive rate.
KYC Automation Reduced Vetting From 48 Minutes To 2
- Microsoft automated customer vetting: 73-person manual vetting team reduced to agents that vet in <2 minutes with 96% efficacy.
- They also automated domain impersonation detection with a Siamese Engram Network: 159,000 domains with one false positive.
