Enterprise Security Weekly (Audio) Transforming Frontline Workflows with Passwordless Access, AI costs, and the News - Joel Burleson-Davis - ESW #431
Nov 3, 2025
Joel Burleson-Davis, CTO at Imprivata, discusses the exciting shift towards passwordless authentication, revolutionizing access for frontline workers in healthcare and critical sectors. He highlights how inefficient logins hinder productivity and presents various passwordless technologies like biometrics and FIDO. The conversation also tackles the escalating costs of AI agents, underscoring how organizations can effectively manage expenses while optimizing processes. Burleson-Davis shares strategies for secure, frictionless access, emphasizing the importance of understanding workforce needs.
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Define And Log Agent Contexts
- Define agent identity and context: act-as-user, act-on-behalf, or machine identity, and log accordingly.
- Treat agents like service accounts with tight lifecycle and audit controls to detect misuse.
Mix Models To Control Agent Costs
- Choosing models and parameters per task cuts costs dramatically; not every step needs the most expensive model.
- Teams must learn to mix cheaper models for routine steps and powerful models for reasoning.
Control Runtime And Token Consumption
- Monitor runtime, token usage, and choose appropriate models to avoid rapid overage charges.
- Use pausing, quotas, and cheaper pre-processing models to reduce inference spend.
