AI for Security, Security for AI: From Salesforce to Hackerone with Pawan Agarwal

How do we use AI for security while also ensuring security for AI? This dual challenge is defining the next era of cybersecurity.

Pawan Agarwal, VP of AI at HackerOne and a veteran of Microsoft and Salesforce's AI platforms, joins Battery's Lior Mallul and Barak Schoster Goihman to discuss this new frontier. He explains how HackerOne is building "agentic pen testers" to supercharge human hackers - not replace them - and shares critical lessons from building and scaling AI infrastructure.

(00:00) Intro

(00:50) From Microsoft & Salesforce to HackerOne

(06:21) AI and Humans (Not AI vs. Humans)

(14:37) HackerOne’s 12-Year Data Advantage

(18:26) Guardrails for Agentic Pen Testing

(27:09) The 3-Layer AI Agent Tech Stack

(34:56) Scaling Salesforce’s Apex Code LLM

(41:13) AI’s Top Security Risks: Prompt Injection

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