How AccuKnox and MantisGrid AI Keep AI Secure and Reliable | Phillip Porras

Phillip Porras, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of AccuKnox, gave a keynote at the MantisGrid AI Hackathon & Summit 2026 in Palo Alto on Sept 17, 2026. AccuKnox focuses on cloud and AI stack security. It is also a partner and a customer of MantisGrid AI. AccuKnox secures the workloads in MantisGrid AI's environment, and it is integrating MantisGrid AI for infrastructure reliability and operations. In this talk, Phillip covers three areas: → Telling a failure from an attack: a pager alert, rising latency, or unusual usage can mean either one → Two platforms, one picture: AccuKnox enforces security for AI services, and MantisGrid AI manages resources and finds the root cause → Resilience as one goal: security keeps systems running under attack, and reliability keeps them running when things break "Our goal here is to bring together security and resilience to provide overall trustworthy and resilient runtime operations." – Phillip Porras Thank you, Phillip and the entire AccuKnox team, for the partnership and trust in MantisGrid AI.