Ashwin Kesireddy

Vice President of Investor Relations & Strategic Finance, Zscaler

Search every verified Ashwin Kesireddy interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Ashwin Kesireddy, Vice President of Product & GTM for AI Security at Zscaler, discussed challenges and strategies for securing enterprise AI adoption in a podcast appearance dated August 10, 2026. He described three pillars for securing AI at scale: visibility into all AI applications and agents in use, guardrails on employee interactions with generative AI, and controls for internally built AI systems. Kesireddy argued that traditional cybersecurity and data security tools are insufficient for AI-specific threats, citing examples such as prompt injection and jailbreaking, and noted that benign prompts can cause AI assistants like Copilot to pull sensitive data from connected systems like SharePoint and OneDrive. Kesireddy also highlighted risks associated with rapid AI agent deployment, stating that agents can be launched more quickly than traditional SaaS applications and may lack controls over the information they access internally. He mentioned emerging concerns around agent-to-agent interactions and noted that customers are using tools to align with governance policies and regulations such as the EU AI Act. He observed that AI productivity gains are occurring across departments, including finance, legal, and marketing, not just in developer teams.