Distributed AI Security: How Enterprise Systems Are Evolving for AI Integration with Mark Fussell

In this episode of Cyber Sentries, host John Richards interviews Mark Fussell, founder and CEO of Diagrid and co-creator of DAPR, about the evolution of distributed applications and the role of AI. Fussell discusses the challenges developers face in building on distributed systems platforms and how DAPR provides a consistent set of APIs to address common patterns like asynchronous communication, service discovery, and statefulness. They explore the importance of application identity for security, the introduction of a workflow engine for durable execution, and the Conversation API for integrating language models. Fussell introduces DAPR Agents for building enterprise-ready agentic applications and highlights the significance of durability and security in AI systems, as well as future trends in AI and multi-agent systems. He also introduces Diagrid Catalyst, a platform for building and running distributed applications based on DAPR, emphasizing its enterprise-readiness and support for various compute platforms.