Shipping AI Into 5 Major Banks Without a 12-Month Compliance Wait — Al Chen, Cisco

Banks don't buy AI software until it survives their security and compliance review. Al Chen shares what it took to deploy inside five major banks without a year-long bottleneck. He covers the build pipeline, CVE remediation with agents writing and testing exploits, backup and restore verification, PII leaking through LLM judges, and why zero leakage and data sovereignty are never free. Chapters: - 00:00 Intro - 02:15 What banks check - 04:17 Fixing CVEs with agents - 08:30 Proving backup and restore - 10:33 PII leaking through LLM judges - 14:48 Making customer problems engineering problems - 16:56 Takeaways Al Chen — X: https://x.com/thealchen | linkedin.com/in/thealchen | https://www.cisco.com Join us in SF for the second annual AIE CODE summit: https://aie.codes our last flagship summit of 2026. Applications live now!