Omar Santos is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) security, cybersecurity research, incident response, and vulnerability disclosure. He is a board member of the OASIS Open standards organization and the founder of OpenEoX. He is the co-chair of the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI). Omar's collaborative efforts extend to numerous organizations, including the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST). Omar is the co-chair of the FIRST PSIRT Special Interest Group (SIG). Omar is the co-founder and co-lead of the DEF CON Red Team Village and the chair of the Common Security Advisory Framework (CSAF) technical committee.
Omar is the author of over 25 books, 21 video courses, and many academic research papers. Omar is a renowned expert in ethical hacking, vulnerability research, incident response, and AI security. He employs his deep understanding of these disciplines to help organizations stay ahead of emerging threats. His dedication to cybersecurity has made a significant impact on technology standards, businesses, academic institutions, government agencies, and other entities striving to improve their cybersecurity programs. Prior to Cisco, Omar served in the United States Marines focusing on the deployment, testing, and maintenance of Command, Control, Communications, Computer and Intelligence (C4I) systems.
- Creating a Custom Code Security Claude Skill that Integrates with Project CodeGuard
- Using Project CodeGuard to Secure the Future of AI-Generated Code
- Security at Scale: Why Humans Must Evolve with AI
- An In-Depth Look at Open-Weight Transformer Models
- Mastering Prompt Engineering for LangChain, LangGraph, and AI Agent Applications
- My Take on a New Identity Framework for AI Agents
- Comparing MCP, A2A, and AGNTCY in the AI Agent Ecosystem
- Foundation-Sec-8B: An Open-Source LLM for Cybersecurity
- Integrating Agentic RAG with MCP Servers: Technical Implementation Guide
- Video Recording: AI and Cybersecurity — Find Yourself in the Future