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Manjunath Bhat
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
Speaker Topics
- AI in Cybersecurity
- Application Security
Speaker Bio
Manjunath (Manju) Bhat is a Research VP and Gartner Fellow in the software engineering practice covering technologies and practices related to DevSecOps, Generative AI, cloud-native architectures, green software engineering, open source software and software supply chain security. Mr. Bhat advises clients on initiatives that intersect software engineering, security engineering and platform engineering.
Manjunath views the impact of Generative AI on software engineering through two perspectives - Building intelligent DevOps pipelines and Building intelligent applications. He has led foundational work on improving developer experience, software bill of materials (SBOMs) and predicting the thrivability of emerging technologies. Manju launched Gartner's first edition of the Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms (2023) and the Hype Cycle for Platform Engineering (2024).
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Manjunath views the impact of Generative AI on software engineering through two perspectives - Building intelligent DevOps pipelines and Building intelligent applications. He has led foundational work on improving developer experience, software bill of materials (SBOMs) and predicting the thrivability of emerging technologies. Manju launched Gartner's first edition of the Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms (2023) and the Hype Cycle for Platform Engineering (2024).
Sessions
Monday, 09 March, 2026 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Technical Insights: Secure by Design: Engineering Secure Applications
Manjunath Bhat,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Secure by design is a security engineering approach that enables building software products that are foundationally secure and resilient. This session will review key tenets of the secure by design principle, such as threat modelling, secure by default and software supply chain security.
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Tuesday, 10 March, 2026 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM IST
AI Security 201: Use AI Security Platform to Protect Your AI Applications
Manjunath Bhat,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
AI security platform is an emerging technology that helps you secure your AI journey. Join this session to learn about how to use AI security platform to help you mitigate AI security risks, such as data leakage, topic abuse, prompt injection, jailbreak and system prompt leakage. We will also discuss how AI security platform startups, SSE, CDN, CNAPP, hyperscalers build, partner or acquire to compete in this AI security space.
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