Security Track Intro — Randall Degges, Snyk
Snyk's Degges frames three AI adoption barriers: code security, agentic safety, and geopolitical model access.
“the biggest problem that I feel we have to still solve in our space is being able to use AI fearlessly”
Randall Degges (Snyk) opened a security track by categorizing three barriers to fearless AI adoption: AI-generated code vulnerabilities (manageable, same as human code), safely deploying autonomous agents in production (harder unsolved problem), and geopolitical access restrictions on frontier models. The framing elevates geopolitics to the same tier as technical security concerns, which is a notable practitioner perspective. As a brief conference intro, it signals themes rather than announcing solutions.