Anjali Telang
Anjali Telang is a Senior Principal Product Manager for OpenShift Security and Identity at Red Hat, with 16+ years of experience in security and cloud. A passionate advocate for open source projects such as SPIFFE/SPIRE, cert-manager, External Secrets Operator, Secret Store CSI Driver, she focuses on bringing cutting-edge technologies to enterprise customers. Before Red Hat, she held product and engineering leadership roles at VMware and NetApp. She has presented CloudNative and more recently AI Security at various conferences and was the Keynote Speaker at KubeCon Atlanta representing RedHat for AI Security. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, cooking, and meditation.
Red Hat
Senior Principal Product Manager
Session
Agentic architectures introduce new security challenges like dynamic policies, autonomous decision loops, continuous model execution, and cross-service actions. In this talk, we unpack the full identity flow for securing these systems from attesting compute, verifying workload lineage, enabling cryptographic identity with SPIFFE/SPIRE, integrating OIDC federation, and enforcing fine-grained authorization using purpose-built control loops. We explore patterns for securing AI agents, vector databases, model-serving pipelines, and GPU/Confidential Compute workloads. The session includes design patterns, identity lifetime management, trust-domain boundaries, workload attestation using hardware-backed roots, and how to build a platform where every component, from the operator to the model pipeline, authenticates and authorizes seamlessly.