Brian Vermeer

Brian Vermeer

Snyk
Staff Developer Advocate for Snyk, Java Champion, Oracle Ace Pro, and Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in creating and maintaining software. He is passionate about Java, (Pure) Functional Programming and Cybersecurity. Brian is a JUG leader for the Virtual JUG and the NLJUG. He also co-leads the DevSecCon community and is a community manager for Foojay. He is a regular international speaker on mostly Java-related conferences like JavaOne, Devnexus, Devoxx, Jfokus, JavaZone and many more. Besides all that, Brian is a military reserve for the Royal Netherlands Air Force and a Taekwondo Master / Teacher.
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Brian Vermeer
Brian Vermeer
Snyk

AI Security Deep Dive, Securing Agents and AI Applications

This session covers AI security for agentic coding and AI-powered apps, including risks like prompt injection, tool abuse, poisoned retrieval, and memory manipulation. It emphasizes practical defenses...
Security, Trust & Compliance Security, Trust & Compliance Deep Dive 180 min. INTERMEDIATE
Brian Vermeer
Brian Vermeer
Snyk

Toxic Flows in MCP Servers and Skills: What Your Agent Blindly Trusts

This talk introduces “toxic flows” in AI agent stacks: trust paths through MCP servers and Skills that can leak context, manipulate decisions, and trigger unintended actions. It shows how trust failur...
Security, Trust & Compliance Security, Trust & Compliance Conference 50 min. INTERMEDIATE