{"id":265416,"date":"2026-06-05T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/practical-lessons-from-lloyds-agentic-ai-security-playbook\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:00:14","slug":"practical-lessons-from-lloyds-agentic-ai-security-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/practical-lessons-from-lloyds-agentic-ai-security-playbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical Lessons From Lloyds&#8217; Agentic AI Security Playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/lloyds-agentic-ai-security-playbook\/\">Practical Lessons From Lloyds&#8217; Agentic AI Security Playbook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/lloyds-agentic-ai-security-playbook\/\">https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/lloyds-agentic-ai-security-playbook\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-05 07:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.infosecurity-magazine.com\">www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lloyds Banking Group is treating agentic AI not as a theoretical threat or boardroom buzzword, but as an engineering problem to be designed, constrained and tested at scale.<\/p>\n<p>In a candid session at the Open Worldwide Application Security Project\u2019s (OWASP) GenAI Security Summit during Infosecurity Europe, two members of Lloyd\u2019s security function laid out how the UK\u2019s largest bank is operationalizing AI security across product lifecycles, governance and real time defenses, all while keeping regulators and customers front of mind.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the summit, Manija Poulatova, director of security engineering and operations at Lloyds Banking Group, started with an honest admission: \u201cWe decided the only way we can actually embed security into adoption of AI and agents is to actually understand what is AI and agentic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said the company articulated its AI and innovation roadmap around 11 \u201cbets\u201d and security as the 12th bet, with \u201cthe purpose of understanding agentic AI and actually building security controls to secure its use cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecurity teams have been the \u2018ministry of no\u2019 for too long, and we want to change the game,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Kirsty Montignani, head of security data and AI at Lloyds, reinforced the pragmatic posture: \u201cThe AI big bets are all low\u2011risk, high\u2011value use cases that serve our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She noted that investments, pensions and customer support were initial priorities because they deliver tangible customer benefit while limiting exposure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to start fresh, and we want to be really precise in our use case,\u201d Montignani added.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Lloyds\u2019 \u201cAI Safe Adoption\u201d Strategy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u200bMontignani further detailed Lloyds\u2019 \u201cAI safe adoption strategy,\u201d which spans the entire lifecycle, from engineers pulling packages and building agents to promotion, runtime observability and decommissioning.<\/p>\n<p>The team created an internal agent marketplace which Montignani described as \u201ca single pane of glass for all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/lloyds-agentic-ai-security-playbook\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practical Lessons From Lloyds&#8217; 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