Treating AI agents like service accounts for federated query security (opens in new tab)

In this interview with Help Net Security, Paras Malhotra, CISO at Starburst, explains how the company handles data governance across federated query environments. Topics include layering Starburst’s access controls above native source permissions, tiering vendor risk across more than 200 partners and connectors, and building audit trails for autonomous agents. The conversation covers how AIDA turns natural language into SQL while guarding against prompt injection, and how the company treats A...