The Agentic Mesh Podcast

Eric Broda and John Miller

John and Eric talk all things Agentic Mesh and AI in this weekly podcast. Subscribe for the most up to date information on a topic that is rapidly growing in the tech world.

  1. 22h ago

    Episode 27 - The Great Agent Escape: Lessons from the OpenAI/Hugging Face Hack

    #AgenticAI #AIAgents #CyberSecurity #EnterpriseAI #AIArchitecture #AISovereignty #AIInfrastructure #AIData At first glance, the assignment looked harmless: solve a set of cybersecurity evaluation problems inside an environment with restricted internet access.[1][2] The agents hit tasks they could not complete and started looking for shortcuts. Nobody had to give them a malicious goal. They did real damage while chasing a score, because they did not inherit our norms about which methods were obviously off limits. But this hack was different. A lot different! Most serious cyberattacks are planned or coordinated by people, often teams of people. Here, the agents built the plan as they went. They found a way to leave notes, shared successful exploits across runs, and eventually reached another company ☑️Subscribe to our Channel for the most up to date information on Agentic Mesh! You can also listen to our Podcast on  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6C6U2fmVdxNMdo1bZpVASy?si=3cyoAireSZiBaKJ-1FtJlA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-agentic-mesh-podcast/id1874331081 Out Now!  O'Reilly Agentic Mesh written by Eric Broda and Davis Broda 👉https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/agentic-mesh/9798341621633/ 👉Stay Connected with Eric and Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbroda/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/davisbroda/ 👉For full-length articles by Eric Broda and Davis Broda: https://agenticmesh.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips  Chapters: 00:00 – The OpenAI–Hugging Face Hack 02:24 – What Actually Happened? 05:40 – The Agent Alignment Problem 09:15 – The Danger of Overly Broad Tool Access 11:57 – Zero Trust for AI Agents 14:18 – Controlling Agents with Tool Grants 17:19 – Why Logging Isn’t Enough 20:31 – Fighting Agents with Agents 22:56 – The Future of Enterprise Cybersecurity 25:20 – Building a Secure Agent Architecture 27:36 – Closing Thoughts

  2. Jul 27

    Episode 25 - Agents Are About to Rewrite the Enterprise Operating Model

    #AgenticAI #AIAgents #CyberSecurity #EnterpriseAI #AIArchitecture #AISovereignty #AIInfrastructure #AIData It is still early days, but agents already participate in business processes: they accept assignments, choose tools, trigger actions, and produce results for which a person remains accountable. ☑️Subscribe to our Channel for the most up-to-date information on Agentic Mesh! You can also listen to our Podcast on  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6C6U2fmVdxNMdo1bZpVASy?si=3cyoAireSZiBaKJ-1FtJlA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-agentic-mesh-podcast/id1874331081 Out Now!  O'Reilly Agentic Mesh written by Eric Broda and Davis Broda 👉https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/agentic-mesh/9798341621633/ 👉Stay Connected with Eric and Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbroda/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/davisbroda/ 👉For full-length articles by Eric Broda and Davis Broda: https://agenticmesh.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips

  3. Jul 20

    Episode 24 - The Sovereignty Stack: Infrastructure, Data, Intelligence and Agency

    #AgenticAI #AIAgents #CyberSecurity #EnterpriseAI #AIArchitecture #AISovereignty #AIInfrastructure #AIData The sovereignty debate has evolved in stages. Infrastructure sovereignty asks where systems run and who controls the computing substrate. Data sovereignty asks who controls the information those systems use. Intelligence sovereignty asks who controls the models that interpret that information and shape judgment. Agency sovereignty asks who controls the authority to turn judgment into action. ☑️Subscribe to our Channel for the most up to date information on Agentic Mesh! You can also listen to our Podcast on  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6C6U2fmVdxNMdo1bZpVASy?si=3cyoAireSZiBaKJ-1FtJlA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-agentic-mesh-podcast/id1874331081 Out Now!  O'Reilly Agentic Mesh written by Eric Broda and Davis Broda 👉https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/agentic-mesh/9798341621633/ 👉Stay Connected with Eric and Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbroda/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/davisbroda/ 👉For full-length articles by Eric Broda and Davis Broda: https://agenticmesh.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips

  4. Jul 7

    Episode 23 - Agent Task Enforcement Boundary

    Secure Agent Series (4 of 4) #AgenticAI #AIAgents #CyberSecurity #EnterpriseAI #AIArchitecture  An agent can hold a perfectly correct authorization and still call the wrong tool, read the wrong data, or send output to the wrong place, unless something outside the agent checks every request before it executes. That check has three possible answers: yes, no, or hold. Unfortunately, most agent platforms today only have one: yes. ☑️Subscribe to our Channel for the most up to date information on Agentic Mesh! You can also listen to our Podcast on  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6C6U2fmVdxNMdo1bZpVASy?si=3cyoAireSZiBaKJ-1FtJlA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-agentic-mesh-podcast/id1874331081 Out Now!  O'Reilly Agentic Mesh written by Eric Broda and Davis Broda 👉https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/agentic-mesh/9798341621633/ 👉Stay Connected with Eric and Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbroda/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/davisbroda/ 👉For full-length articles by Eric Broda and Davis Broda: https://agenticmesh.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips

  5. Jun 29

    Episode 22 - Secure Agent Authorization: Tasks as the Authorization Boundary for Enterprise Agents

    #AgenticAI #AIAgents #CyberSecurity #EnterpriseAI #AIArchitecture  Agents now do useful work. Coding agents inspect repositories, write patches, run tests, and open pull requests. Business agents summarize accounts, triage cases, draft customer messages, prepare invoices, and move work across systems. That usefulness creates the control and governance problem. Once agents can touch repositories, ticket queues, CRM systems, email, cloud consoles, databases, and workflow tools, the enterprise needs to answer a practical question: why was this agent allowed to do this action for this task? ☑️Subscribe to our Channel for the most up to date information on Agentic Mesh! You can also listen to our Podcast on  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6C6U2fmVdxNMdo1bZpVASy?si=3cyoAireSZiBaKJ-1FtJlA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-agentic-mesh-podcast/id1874331081 Out Now!  O'Reilly Agentic Mesh written by Eric Broda and Davis Broda 👉https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/agentic-mesh/9798341621633/ 👉Stay Connected with Eric and Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbroda/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/davisbroda/ 👉For full-length articles by Eric Broda and Davis Broda: https://agenticmesh.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips

  6. Jun 29

    Episode 21 - Agent Identity - The Foundation for Secure Agents

    #AgenticAI #AIAgents #CyberSecurity #EnterpriseAI #AIArchitecture  Enterprise agents are starting to do real work before many enterprises can answer a basic question: which agent did it? Some agents were never registered. Some act through user credentials or shared service accounts (for example, coding agents like Claude Code or personal agents like OpenClaw). Others have no clear owner. When an invoice is approved, a case is closed, a workflow is triggered, or an output is released, the enterprise may see the action (and potentially, the negative outcome), the tool call, or the token, but not the actor. ☑️Subscribe to our Channel for the most up to date information on Agentic Mesh! You can also listen to our Podcast on  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6C6U2fmVdxNMdo1bZpVASy?si=3cyoAireSZiBaKJ-1FtJlA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-agentic-mesh-podcast/id1874331081 Out Now!  O'Reilly Agentic Mesh written by Eric Broda and Davis Broda 👉https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/agentic-mesh/9798341621633/ 👉Stay Connected with Eric and Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbroda/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/davisbroda/ 👉For full-length articles by Eric Broda and Davis Broda: https://agenticmesh.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips

  7. May 28

    Episode 20 - Agents Are Here. They Are Multiplying. The Enterprise Security Model Is Not Ready.

    #AgenticAI #AIAgents #CyberSecurity #EnterpriseAI #AIArchitecture  Every CISO or security professional I speak with describes the same problem. "This new wave of agents operate with almost unbounded permissions," one told me. "I can't tell they are doing something wrong until after the fact," said another. A third put it most plainly: "These agents act like employees, but they are not employees and are not bound by the same rules — and that is worrisome." The anxiety is consistent. The incidents confirming it are multiplying. Out Now!  O'Reilly Agentic Mesh written by Eric Broda and Davis Broda 👉https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/agentic-mesh/9798341621633/ 👉Stay Connected with Eric and Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbroda/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/davisbroda/ 👉For full-length articles by Eric Broda and Davis Broda: https://agenticmesh.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips

  8. Apr 28

    Episode 19: Agent Memory - The Foundation of Agent Architecture

    #AICoding #AIAgents #SoftwareEngineering #DeveloperProductivity Agent memory is becoming a new foundation of enterprise agent architecture. But it seems like we are still treating memory as a bigger context window, a retrieval layer, or a better prompt. Instead, making your agents work well is turning out to be based upon how you manage its memory.  In fact, it looks like memory is turning into almost an operating system for agent work: what the agent knows, what it is allowed to see, what it carries through execution, what it shares, and what becomes durable over time. Out Now!  O'Reilly Agentic Mesh written by Eric Broda and Davis Broda 👉https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/agentic-mesh/9798341621633/ 👉Stay Connected with Eric and John: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbroda/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jymiller/ 👉For full-length articles by Eric Broda and John Miller: https://agenticmesh.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips

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    Eric Broda and John Miller
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    26
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