David Weston leads Agentic Security at Microsoft, where he and his team build the AI models, autonomous agents, and evaluation systems redefining how defenders operate. At Microsoft since the Windows 7 era, he has worked across exploit mitigation design, malware analysis, APT research, and led security engineering for Windows, Xbox, Azure OS, and Microsoft’s Offensive Security Research & Engineering group. His current work is leading teams training frontier security models, agentic security systems for defenders, and pushing AI-driven vulnerability discovery through Microsoft’s Multi-Model Agentic Scanning Harness (MDASH). A longtime member of the research community and former CISA technical advisor, David is a regular presenter at BlueHat, Black Hat, and DEF CON.
Tomorrow he will be with us on Tech Community answering questions during a live hour of Q&A with all of you!
Key areas David and his team can discuss:
- The vision behind Project Perception
- How AI is changing the economics of cyber offense and defense
- Lessons learned from building MDASH and Microsoft’s AI security initiatives
- Security-first AI development and deployment
- What’s next for defenders as agentic systems become mainstream