Blue Team Con 2026

Name: Detection Engineering for AI Agents: Building Defenses That Work When Your Attacker Can Think
Start: 2026-09-12T10:30:00-0500
End: 2026-09-12T11:30:00-0500

Detection Engineering for AI Agents: Building Defenses That Work When Your Attacker Can Think

Saturday September 12, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am CDT

Swissôtel Chicago

The bot detection playbook defenders have relied on for years — IP blocklists, rate limits, behavioral baselines, CAPTCHA — was built for a threat that no longer exists. Modern adversaries are deploying LLM-powered agents that reason, adapt, and evolve their behavior in response to detection. For defenders, this means the threat model has fundamentally changed. This talk, drawn from production experience building bot mitigation systems at Amazon, provides blue teamers with a practical framework for detection engineering against agentic AI attackers. The session covers: how to identify the behavioral signatures of LLM-driven agents (and why they're different from both humans and traditional bots); detection signal categories that remain robust against adaptive adversaries; pipeline architecture for high-velocity threat detection at scale; and incident response workflows when an AI-powered attacker is actively evading your controls. Critically, this talk addresses the strategic challenge defenders face: in an adversarial ML environment, your model is always at risk of being reverse-engineered and evaded. How do you build detection systems that are robust to an adversary who can iterate as fast as you can? Attendees will leave with detection engineering patterns they can apply to bot defense, fraud prevention, and automated threat response — and a realistic understanding of where current defenses still have gaps.

Speakers

Shashwat Jain

Sr. Software Development Engineer, Amazon

Shashwat Jain is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon, where he architects and deploys AI-powered bot mitigation systems protecting Amazon's global e-commerce platforms from sophisticated automated threats. With expertise spanning real-time behavioral detection engines... Read More →

Saturday September 12, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Swissôtel Chicago 323 E Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60601, USA

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Company Amazon
Audience Early Career
Subject Threat Hunting and Red Teaming
global Y

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