Allie Howe
@vtahowe
vCISO | SOC2, NIST AI RMF, AI Security Gap Assessments | Helping AI Startups Build Trustworthy AI | Host of the @insecureagents Podcast
👋🏼 Hi, I’m Allie! Realized I haven’t introduced myself on this platform. After leading security at a startup from founding to acquisition I’m now a vCISO for startups. Reach out to me for help with - SOC2 - creating a custom security roadmap for your business - AI security
I partner with Vanta because I believe they have the best product on the market and they are also good people. Compliance is high stakes. You want people on your team that really care. Congrats @TrustVanta on the Series D funding!! 🚀💜
$150M raised. $4.15B valuation. And 3.5+ years of the most meaningful work of my life. When I joined @TrustVanta, we were fewer than 200 people trying to build something big. Today, we’re over 1,000 strong and still growing. I’ve had the privilege of helping bring on hundreds…
Ep. 7 is out now! @kyjry, Head of Artificial Intelligence at @DuneSecurity explains how AI is being used to > clone exec voices in real-time > phish engineers with fake PagerDuty alerts > hijack agents to leak sensitive data Link in the comments!
Using AI to familymax is my favorite use case ever I’m excited about this new era of AI too It’s giving the technical experts that know how to use it time back for the things that matter most 🫶🏻
I love this new era of AI. Today I did 160 hours worth of work in four hours. Those four hours were spent on serious, focused work for a commercial project I've been jamming on. Its in a fairly niche area, so in the past I'd have been doing hours upon hours of googling to pull…
One of my favorite use cases for Claude code on a new repo before running a terraform apply is What do you estimate this costs to run per month? Jr devs will never have to go through what we did 🥲
Make LinkedIn Great Again
Few people know this, but you can just export your LinkedIn network and run algos on top of it
Great discussion with Kyle Ryan at Dune Security! Just last month an attacker cloned Marco Rubio's voice and used it to contact members of congress It's no secret AI is making Social Engineering 10x harder for humans to spot, but are agents vulnerable to it as well?
Are AI agents just as vulnerable to social engineering attacks as humans? Ep. 7 of Insecure Agents with @kyjry, Head of Artificial Intelligence at @DuneSecurity comes on Thursday! Check out previous episodes! Link in comments.
Ask much as I try to forget about you, you keep coming back and each time I realize I can’t live without you (vague post about Docker)
sorry were not rolling in cash (yet) and our 1 cracked devops eng's backlog is deeper than the hole the astronomer CEO has dug himself into
Great questions @vtahowe! Thanks for having me
AI models will choose to follow their own goals instead of the ethics baked into them @aengus_lynch1 describes the research he did with Anthropic that showed AI Agents can > resist shutdown > blackmail humans > disregard ethics in pursuit of their own goals
Ran a local 5k with my brother yesterday I think I’ve run maybe 3 times since the marathon in May since I’ve mostly been cycling so was fun to get back into it
Who is solving does this file contain a hidden prompt injection or malware in a single API call Just want a single API call for is this file safe for RAG Not sure that exists but a lot of customizable guardrails do where I could string API calls together
“We’re not rolling out AI Agents because humans make better decisions”
