Securing Space: The Next Frontier for Security Engineers
Ankush Gupta
BSides Seattle 2026 · Day 2 · Track 1
Ankusha, an enterprise architect at one of the largest telecom organizations in the United States, presented on red teaming AI systems for security validation. Despite the session title referencing "Securing Space," the actual content focused on the Compass RT unified red teaming framework and its application to AI systems, drawing on Ankusha's experience managing security across large-scale enterprise environments with mission-critical transactions.
AI review
A broad overview of AI red teaming concepts and the Compass RT framework that stays at the surface level throughout. The talk references impressive numbers (30,000 vulnerabilities in 3 days, $325M breaches) but never goes deep on any specific vulnerability, exploit chain, or red teaming technique. The Microsoft case study findings are sourced from a pre-recorded video rather than original research, and the Compass RT framework is described at a high level without demonstrating how it concretely differs from existing security testing methodologies.