AnalysisOpinion / analysisMLOps, Tooling & Infrastructure · Agents & Tool Use · Safety & Alignment1 source · Oct 11, 2026

Build a Platform and Watch It Burn — Michael Forrester, Accenture & Whitney Lee, Datadog

A burrito ordering assistant deploys an external container image and exposes a secret recipe from its Kubernetes environment.

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Key points

  • Michael Forrester and Whitney Lee invite the audience to push that deliberately permissive bot beyond ordering food, then repeat the attacks with infrastructure and AI guardrails.
  • A weather tool introduces another trust boundary: its description asks the agent to read internal configuration alongside a legitimate task.
  • 0:00 - A platform, an agent, and a burrito bot
  • 8:00 - Live deployment through the chatbot

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