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Bobby Filar

Sublime Security

Head of AI at Sublime Security. Research on agentic systems, LLM evaluation, adversarial ML, and AI governance.

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Media & Writing

Selected public talks, writing, and news.

AI Safety Evolved: Secure-by-Design, Safe-by-Measurement
June 2026 Sublime Security blog (with Aryan Luthra)
#Writing #Agentic Systems

A security AI model maturity checklist and Sublime's four pillars of AI safety for agents that operate directly on attacker-authored content.

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Adversarial Prompt Injection Payload for Evading AI-Based Detection
June 2026 Sublime Security blog, Attack Spotlight (with Sam Scholten)
#Writing #Email Security

Analysis of an in-the-wild credential phishing campaign carrying a second, adversarial payload designed to manipulate AI-based email security into returning a benign verdict.

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The Craft of Designing Resource-Efficient Agents
June 2026 Georgian AI Lab Substack (with Kshitij Jain, Aryan Luthra, Asna Shafiq)
#Writing #Agentic Systems

A two-tier router architecture — fine-tuned open-weight model with uncertainty-based escalation to a frontier model — that cut ASA's median latency 16x and inference cost ~70% with no accuracy loss.

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Risky Business #837 — Evaluating agentic AI amid AI fatigue
May 2026 Risky Business podcast (with Patrick Gray)
#Podcast #Agentic Systems

Guest segment on evaluating agentic AI in security, and how organizations are cutting through 'AI fatigue' to make real decisions about deployment.

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Trust, Then Autonomy: A New Framework for Evaluating Security AI
May 2026 AKJ AI Security Summit 2026
#Talk #AI Governance

Talk introducing the five-level autonomy framework, evidence ladder, and three architectural foundations for evaluating earned autonomy in deployed AI systems.

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How Sublime's AI Agents Are Secure by Design
April 2026 Sublime Security blog
#Writing #Agentic Systems

Architectural deep-dive on tool scoping, platform-enforced authorization, prompt injection mitigation, and graduated oversight for production LLM agents.

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More Than 'Plausible Nonsense': A Rigorous Eval for ADÉ, Our Security Coding Agent
September 2025 Sublime Security blog (with Dr. Anna Bertiger)
#Writing #Evaluation

A three-pillar framework — detection accuracy, robustness, and economic cost of coverage — for evaluating LLM-generated detection rules, applied to Sublime's ADÉ agent.

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Risky Biz News — The spam/email bombing problem
May 2025 Risky Business News (with Catalin Cimpanu)
#Podcast #Email Security

Sponsor interview on the rising use of spam bombing and email bombing as initial-access techniques in modern intrusion campaigns.

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Sublime Attack Score: Explainable, AI-Backed Threat Analysis
June 2024 Sublime Security blog
#Writing #Machine Learning

Introducing Attack Score, an explainable AI feature that summarizes threats and provides a transparent verdict, built on privacy-preserving feature engineering and MQL.

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Unmasking BEC Attacks Using Natural Language Understanding + MQL
April 2023 Sublime Security blog
#Writing #Email Security

How Sublime combines Natural Language Understanding with Message Query Language to detect Business Email Compromise, an attack style with no malicious links or attachments to key on.

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Detecting Credential Phishing Using Deep Learning + MQL
March 2023 Sublime Security blog, Attack Spotlight
#Writing #Email Security

How Sublime's LinkAnalysis function uses Siamese neural networks and computer vision on rendered link screenshots to catch brand-impersonating credential phishing pages.

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