Blake Buchert
Press, talks & writing

On the record.

For interviews and panels, the fastest route is email. Bio, headshot, and past talk recordings are available on request.

Press

The Cipher Review The new attack surface nobody owns yet Feature on agent security, quoted throughout on who is accountable when a model takes an action nobody authorized. Jun 2026
Signal & Noise Red-teaming agents, one tool call at a time Hour-long interview on the Northgate engagement and why tool results deserve the same distrust as user input. Mar 2026
Threat Vector Weekly Interview: what agent security gets wrong Short Q&A on the gap between jailbreak demos and the boring boundary failures behind real incidents. May 2025
Journal of Applied ML Security Provenance for model weights Practitioner report on reaching verifiable provenance for a production training pipeline. Aug 2025
Foundry Brief Forty examples is enough Coverage of the fine-tune poisoning results and the audit checklist published alongside them. Jan 2025

Speaking

KeynoteNov 2025

Poisoning the fine-tune: forty examples is enough

Vector Summit, Chicago

Presented the poisoning thresholds, then walked the room through which data audits actually catch them. Recording available on request.

Conference talkSep 2025

Your agent has more privileges than your interns

Perimeter Conference, Austin

A tour of privilege escalation through tool chains, built entirely from findings that made it past a standard application security review.

PanelApr 2026

Who owns AI incidents?

Northbound Security Forum

Panelist alongside platform and legal leads on incident ownership when a model, not a person, initiates the action.

WorkshopRecurring

Threat modeling systems that include a model

Private, 20 to 40 engineers

Two days, hands on the team's own architecture. Runs for product, platform, and security engineers in the same room.

Writing

Treat every tool result as attacker input Jul 2026
A logging schema for agentic systems Feb 2026
Signed weights: a practical adoption path Oct 2025
Poisoning small fine-tune sets (paper + dataset) Mar 2024

Press enquiries
and panel invitations.