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Starburst CISO on federated query security, layered access controls, and governing AI agents

Mirko Zorz

25d ago· 7 min readen

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Summary

In an interview with Help Net Security, Paras Malhotra, CISO at Starburst, discusses data governance strategies for federated query environments. Key topics include layering Starburst's access controls above native source permissions, tiering vendor risk across 200+ partners and connectors, and building audit trails for autonomous AI agents. The conversation also covers AIDA, which converts natural language to SQL while preventing prompt injection, and treating AI agents querying through MCP endpoints as scoped service accounts with short-lived credentials.

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bskyStarburst CISO on federated query security, layered access controls, and governing AI agentshelpnetsecurity.com

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We layer Starburst's access controls above native source permissions to ensure consistent governance across federated environments.

We tier vendor risk across more than 200 partners and connectors to maintain security at scale.

We treat AI agents querying through MCP endpoints as scoped service accounts with short-lived credentials.

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Starburst CISO discusses federated query security, layering access controls, vendor risk, and governing AI agents that query data.

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