The Tireless Guardian: Agentic AI and the Art of WAF at Scale
Ammar Alim
fwd:cloudsec North America 2026 · Day 1
In his fwd:cloudsec talk, "The Tireless Guardian: Agentic AI and the Art of WAF at Scale," Ammar Alim from Adobe presents a compelling case for leveraging **agentic AI** to revolutionize the deployment and management of **Web Application Firewall (WAF)** rules. This session addresses the escalating challenges faced by security organizations in an era of exploding software vulnerabilities and increasingly sophisticated, AI-augmented attacks. Alim argues that traditional patching mechanisms are no longer sufficient, highlighting a critical need for rapid, automated defenses at the network edge.
AI review
Alim presents a legitimate operational engineering effort — an agentic AI pipeline that automates WAF rule generation and validation at Adobe scale — with honest discussion of failure modes and a sensible multi-stage validation architecture. The work is real and the problem is real, but the talk stays at the architectural overview level without dropping enough specifics to be genuinely instructive to a technically sophisticated audience.