ISF Podcast6 Touko 2025

S34 Ep2: Christopher Sestito - Stay Ahead or Fall Behind: The AI Challenge for Modern Businesses

In today's episode, Steve speaks with Christopher Sestito (also known as Tito), chairman of the board, CEO, and co-founder of HiddenLayer, a cyber security startup dedicated to preventing adversarial machine learning attacks. Tito shares his perspective on where the business world is currently when it comes to AI and cybersecurity. He also gives his thoughts on the state of AI regulation and what business leaders should do to protect their organizations in the age of AI.

Key Takeaways:

AI is changing the cybersecurity game
Tech regulation is becoming more fragmented
Securing AI is really no different from securing other parts of the business

Tune in to hear more about:

Why Christopher Sestito started HiddenLayer (1:28)
Why AI will play an increasingly important role in organizational cyber defense (5:47)
What business leaders should think about as they approach cyber in the age of AI (20:18)

Standout Quotes:

“I think the challenge at the AI level is how fast we've moved. There's been so many advancements that if you don't have a dedicated organization looking at this, it's really just moving too quickly to ultimately have things at a sort of hardening level at the model layer itself.” - Christopher Sestito
“I think I'm a bit of a realist when it comes to artificial intelligence coming in. I think we are viewing a very fundamental shift in ultimately what's gonna affect workforces and skill sets required. I think that if I was entering the workforce right now, I'd be focusing heavily on the effects of artificial intelligence, how I can leverage artificial intelligence.” - Christopher Sestito
“Every organization really needs to pay attention to their agentic strategy right now. I think if you're engaged with other enterprise organizations, as all are, everyone's building agents right now, and those agents have a lot of autonomy in order to be able to conduct transactions, in order to be able to deal with data, to be able to interact, organization or organization. And I think every CISO is gonna need to be able to really articulate what they want to be allowed here and not because we're removing humans in the loop with these agents, we're allowing them to have quite a bit of agency in order to conduct these transactions at an incredible rate.” - Christopher Sestito

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