Agentic AI and the Future of Security Operations

报告题目(Title)：Agentic AI and the Future of Security Operations

时间(Date & Time)：2026.7.2; 11:00-12:30

地点(Location)：理科一号楼1504（燕园校区）Room 1504, Science Building #1 (Yanyuan)

主讲人(Speaker)：Peng Gao

邀请人(Host)：李锭

报告摘要(Abstract)：

Frontier AI is a double-edged sword for security: agentic AI can power a new generation of autonomous defense, yet it becomes a potent attack surface itself. This talk presents our research toward trustworthy, autonomous security operations via agentic AI, organized as a loop of sense, reason, act on a foundation of trust. I will show how system provenance lets us sense advanced attacks buried in benign activity; how cyber threat intelligence supplies rich security knowledge for LLMs to reason over complex threats; and how programmable network primitives let us rearchitect the network as a defense backbone to enforce line-rate security policies. Crucially, because an autonomous defense is only as dependable as the AI behind it, I will show how we secure that AI itself. This talk comprises work published at IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, VLDB, EuroS&P, ICLR, and KDD, that has been widely adopted by industry.

主讲人简介(Bio)：

Peng Gao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and a Faculty Fellow with the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI). He is an IEEE Senior Member and an ACM Senior Member. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and his B.E. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research lies at the intersection of security and privacy, systems and networking, and AI, with a focus on designing scalable, intelligent, and trustworthy solutions to real-world security, privacy, and computing challenges. His work has been published at multiple top-tier venues including IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, EuroS&P, USENIX ATC, VLDB, ICDE, ICML, ICLR, KDD, and ICSE, and has resulted in multiple patents as well as industry adoption. He frequently serves on the program committees of major security and systems conferences and currently serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the 2018 CSAW Applied Research Finalist, and multiple faculty research awards from Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon, and Google.

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