​Claude Code for Cybersecurity: Building Autonomous Security Agents

​🎤 Speaker: Shashwat Sharma
📅 Date: 8 August 2026
🕙 Time: 09:50 AM IST
⏱️ Duration: 60–90 Minutes
💻 Mode: Live Online Session
📍 Platform: Cy-FI Cyber Crew Discord Server

​🚀 Quick Overview

​Designed for beginner to early-career cybersecurity professionals (0–2 years of experience), this session introduces the fundamentals of autonomous security agents.
It explores how Claude Code can be used to build intelligent, AI-powered security workflows. You'll understand how modern AI agents reason, use tools, make decisions, and interact with real systems, learn the principles behind designing reliable and production-ready agentic systems, and conclude with a live demonstration of an autonomous AI agent solving a real-world cybersecurity challenge.

​The session is structured into four practical sections:

Part A: What is an AI/Autonomous Agent? How is it different from automation?

​Part B: Claude Code is introduced as the framework used to explain these concepts, covering Tools, Skills, Hooks, MCP, and how agents are built.

​Part C: How to make AI agents reliable, context management, evaluations, benchmarks.

​Part D: A live demo where Claude Code solves a cybersecurity lab autonomously.

📢 Important: This event will be hosted exclusively on our Discord server.

​If you're new to Discord or need any assistance, please join our WhatsApp group. We'll help you set up Discord, answer any questions, share a quick guide, and keep you updated with important event announcements and reminders.

​We recommend joining the Discord server before the event so you're all set on the day of the session!

​🧠 Detailed Event Overview

​Join us for "Claude Code for Cybersecurity: Building Autonomous Security Agents", a practical deep dive into one of the most exciting shifts in modern cybersecurity—AI agents that can reason, plan, and execute security tasks autonomously.

​Large Language Models have evolved far beyond chatbots. Today, agentic AI systems can perform penetration testing, automate repetitive security workflows, analyze vulnerabilities, and assist security professionals in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago.

​But what exactly is an AI agent?

​How does it differ from traditional automation or AI-powered scripts?

​Where should security professionals trust AI, and where should deterministic tools still take over?

​In this session, we'll explore these questions through Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic command-line framework that enables AI to think, use tools, write code, interact with systems, and solve complex cybersecurity tasks.

​Rather than focusing on theory alone, this session combines practical concepts with a live demonstration, showing how modern AI agents actually work under the hood and how cybersecurity professionals can start building and using them today.

​Whether you're beginning your cybersecurity journey or looking to understand the future of AI-assisted security operations, this session will provide a strong foundation.

​🎯 What You'll Learn

​🔹 What AI agents are and how they differ from traditional AI automation.

​🔹 Understanding the architecture behind Claude Code and autonomous security agents.

​🔹 How reasoning, deterministic tools, and context management work together.

​🔹 Claude Code components:

• ​Tools

• ​Skills

• ​Hooks

• ​MCP (Model Context Protocol)

​🔹 Designing reliable AI agents for cybersecurity.

​🔹 Real-world benchmarks, practical use cases, and current industry trends.

​🔹 Live demonstration of an autonomous AI agent solving a real security challenge.

​👨‍💻 Speaker

​Shashwat Sharma - Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Alyssum & Transilience.ai

​Cybersecurity researcher and AI security practitioner specializing in autonomous security agents, offensive security, and practical AI applications in cybersecurity.

​Shashwat actively works on agentic security workflows, Claude Code implementations, and AI-assisted penetration testing, helping security professionals understand how modern AI systems can be applied safely and effectively.

​👥 Who Should Attend?

​This session is designed for:

• ​Students interested in cybersecurity

• ​Beginners starting their cybersecurity journey

• ​Security professionals with 0–2 years of experience

• ​SOC Analysts

• ​Security Engineers

• ​Pentesters

• ​Anyone curious about AI agents and the future of cybersecurity

​No prior experience with Claude Code is required.

​💬 What to Expect

​• Beginner-friendly explanations with practical examples.

​• A clear understanding of how AI agents actually work.

​• Live demonstrations instead of just presentations.

​• Real-world insights into where AI is changing cybersecurity today.

​• Actionable learning you can start applying immediately.

​• Interactive Q&A with the speaker.

​🚀 Hosted by Cy-FI Cyber Crew

​Cy-FI Cyber Crew is a community dedicated to helping cybersecurity professionals learn, network, and grow through practical sessions, industry discussions, hands-on learning, and collaborations with experts across the cybersecurity ecosystem.