The Guardian Agent Series Episode 1: The Real AI Adoption Journey.

Where Innovation Meets Risk, how CISOs and Engineering Can Coexist in the Age of AI Agents AI is already transforming how teams build, decide, and operate. But for many enterprises, the shift has happened faster than their visibility and guardrails. Engineering leaders push AI to move faster, while CISOs scramble to keep up with invisible agentic activity, ungoverned data flows, and unbounded model integrations. In this episode, we explore the “Confidence Gap”- the growing disconnect between the speed of AI adoption and the maturity of the governance underpinning it. You’ll learn how enterprises can enable AI adoption safely, through collaboration, context, and real-time reasoning, not control and fear. Featuring: • Ben Godard, Head of Security, Spotnana, a practitioner driving security, incident response and governance in the era of AI. • Vidit Arora, Founder & CEO of Quilr — innovator in proactive, human-centric AI governance. With a background in security research and product innovation, he created Quilr to reimagine user-focused risk response through AI, without disrupting the business. What you’ll gain: • How to build shared trust between security and engineering, so AI agents don’t become blind spots. • How to detect and govern agentic actions, where the system acts, not just the human. • How to scale from early pilots to production-ready agentic deployments, without losing control or speed.

Vidit Arora
Founder & CEO, Quilr
James Kirk
Head of Security & privacy, Jellyfish

About Speakers:

Vidit Arora

Vidit is a cybersecurity founder with deep roots in insider threat and UEBA, driven by a passion for solving human-centric security challenges through real-world customer insight. With a background in security research and product innovation, he created Quilr to reimagine user-focused risk response through AI, without disrupting the business.

James Kirk

James Kirk is the Head of Security & Privacy at Jellyfish, bringing more than 20 years of leadership experience in Information Technology, Security, Compliance, and Privacy. Throughout his career, he has guided organizations through complex regulatory environments, built resilient security programs, and championed a culture of privacy and trust. At Jellyfish, James leads global efforts to safeguard data and ensure compliance while enabling innovation at scale.