Summit Talk: Building Custom Agents That Survive First Contact
In this session, Hayden Covington, Associate Director of Security Operations at the BHIS SOC, will walk through how to design custom agents for real security operations work: triage support, detection engineering, enrichment workflows, reporting, research, and review-heavy operational tasks. The focus is not magic prompts or over-engineered instructions; it is the engineering work behind useful agents. Powerful agents have clear roles, bounded authority, durable memory, tool access, handoff points, review gates, and failure modes that operators can actually relate to.
