​Cyber Attacks Targeting Generative AI in Retail

​and How to Build Secure Agentic AI Systems

​Retail is adopting generative and agentic AI faster than almost any other sector. These systems power personalized experiences, real-time decision-making, and autonomous workflows across ecommerce and in-store operations. This speed of adoption comes with rising risk. Retail environments interact with massive volumes of guest users, anonymous traffic, and unpredictable inputs. This creates ideal conditions for attackers to poison data, manipulate prompts, and degrade AI models at scale.

​This session examines the emerging threat landscape facing retail AI systems and provides a practical blueprint for defending against model corruption, prompt attacks, and adversarial inputs. You will learn how to strengthen trust, reliability, and resilience inside dynamic consumer-facing environments where exposure surfaces change by the minute.

​Drawing from his deep experience in cloud architecture, Microsoft technologies, and AI assisted services, Suresh Kumar Gundala will share actionable frameworks for designing secure agentic AI pipelines, validating inputs at scale, and preventing cascading failures across retail operations.

​Key Topics

​✦ How guest and anonymous traffic increases AI attack exposure
✦ Emerging threats like adversarial prompts, input manipulation, and data poisoning
✦ Real-time monitoring and anomaly detection for agentic AI systems
✦ Security patterns for retail AI pipelines across Azure, microservices, and gRPC
✦ Adversarial resilience strategies that protect model integrity

​Why Attend

​A practical guide to securing generative and agentic AI systems in one of the most attack-prone digital environments. You will walk away with clear strategies, architectural patterns, and defensive controls to build trustworthy AI in retail at scale.

​Speaker

​Suresh Kumar Gundala is a Solution Architect with 18+ years in .NET, Azure, Angular, AI assisted services, microservices, and gRPC. He builds scalable, cloud native, AI enabled systems optimized for performance, security, and cost. He’s known for translating complex requirements into robust enterprise solutions and leading cross functional teams delivering secure, high impact applications.

​Host

​Boaz Descalo
Founder, Node8.ai
Boaz advises growth-stage and PE-backed companies on AI strategy, GTM transformation, operations, and product development. He is the creator of the Build AI Community and works closely with founders, operators, and investment groups to turn AI systems into real business outcomes.

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