First Principles

First Principles is a conversation series where I ask engineering and security leaders the questions that usually go unasked: how their teams actually behave, what they can't see, and what they've learned the hard way.

• Brian Hackney on speed versus safety, orphaned automations, and why less oversight works

  Brian Hackney, UFCU

• Kumar Maddali on agent permissions, ownership, and why AI can't be a black box

  Kumar Maddali, Telenav

• Maulik Shah on security visibility, non-human identities, and turning pushback into a scorecard

  Maulik Shah, Komodo Health