Okta's Dinesh Sukhija on meeting AI with AI, and the convergence of platform, SRE, and security
00:00 The wall between dev and ops teams that made platform engineering necessary
06:57 Why platform teams need a product mindset to build what gets used
12:10 How paved paths evolved from code scaffolding to AI guardrails
19:09 The case for meeting AI-generated threats with AI defenses
28:02 Why platform, SRE, and security are converging into one function
34:29 Scorecards, measurable outcomes, and the problem with security theater
Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Dinesh Sukhija, Director of Engineering at Okta, to discuss how AI is reshaping the relationship between platform engineering, SRE, and security.
Dinesh explains why platform teams must treat engineers as users and run real discovery before building. They get into how paved paths have evolved from code scaffolding to guardrailing AI-generated code, controlling token usage, and approving models. Dinesh also makes the case for meeting AI-generated threats with AI defenses, and explains how he sees platform, SRE, and security converging into a shared safety function at organizations shipping at AI speed.
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