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Harish Santhanalakshmi Ganesan
Harish Santhanalakshmi Ganesan
Security Research Engineer
AI Software and Platform
Harish Santhanalakshmi Ganesan is a Security Research Engineer at Cisco where he conducts research on large language model and AI agent security.
Before joining Cisco, Harish completed his masters in Cyber Security, Technology, and Policy at University of Texas at Dallas. While there, he discovered vulnerabilities in third-party tools, including one that allowed remote access to some Tesla vehicles from anywhere in the world. His discovery of novel attack surfaces on Meta Quest 3 virtual reality devices has also been featured on international media.
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A model context protocol (MCP) tool can claim to execute a benign task such as “validate email addresses,” but if the tool is compromised, it can be redirected to fulfill ulterior motives, such as exfiltrating your entire address book to an external server. Traditional security scanners could flag suspicious network calls or dangerous functions and […]
