Security Isn't the Brake, It's the Throttle: Snyk CTO Manoj Nair on Securing Agents at Machine Speed

Manoj Nair, CTO and Chief Innovation Officer at Snyk, joins us at Snyk HQ during AI Engineer World's Fair to discuss the architectural decision he argues the next 24 months of agentic security depend on: the generator cannot be the validator.

We get into why "the fox guarding the henhouse" is suddenly a live security question ("I can use AI to secure AI, so do I still need a separate security offering?"), why finding vulnerabilities was never the hard part and fixing them safely inside the loop is, and why securing at inception means combining independent models with deterministic data and security research rather than just pointing one model at your codebase.

Manoj also walks through Snyk's Evo, an agentic security orchestrator built on the fighter-pilot OODA loop that turns a security engineer into a 10X AI security operator, why the agents' own supply chain (the MCP servers and skills they pull at runtime) is now its own attack surface, and why he sees security as the throttle, not the brake.