Red vs. Blue: Defending AI agents in Production
AI agents are quickly becoming the new 'virtual employees' of enterprises... and attackers know it. In this interactive attacker vs defender session, we follow a real world attack path to show how a malicious actor manipulates an enterprise agent and how each security layer responds in sequence.
You’ll see how the AI Gateway acts as the security checkpoint, inspecting and governing agent traffic. How Microsoft Foundry enforces runtime guardrails, safe tool use, and policy based behavior controls inside the agent’s execution environment. How Purview protects the “vault” of sensitive data, and how Defender for AI is used for threat detection, alert triggering and incident response capabilities.
This session demonstrates how to stop attacks before they become incidents using proactive measures, investigation flows and observability traces.
This will give you a clear view of how to architect AI agents with robust, production grade, end to end security.
About the speakers
Laura Verghote
Laura is a solution engineer at Microsoft supporting customers with AI and cloud-native modernization. She helps organizations turn AI use cases into real, production‑ready solutions on Azure. Before joining Microsoft, she led the AI technology strategy for Public Sector Industries in Europe at AWS. Drawing on her background in cloud architecture, technical training and AI, Laura frequently takes the stage at tech events worldwide, where she breaks down modern AI with clarity and enthusiasm.
Sofie Delaet
Sofie is a tech‑enthusiast with a passion for all things cloud and AI. With a strong consultancy background, she’s spent some years in the trenches tackling the nitty‑gritty, hands‑on engineering work that shapes real‑world solutions. Today, she strengthens Microsoft’s ranks as a Solution Engineer, advising customers on modern AI architectures and guiding them through cloud‑native application modernization.
