STARWEST 2026 - AI Governance
Wednesday, September 23
AI-Driven Identity Governance: How Testing Teams Secure Access in Zero Trust Environments
As organizations adopt Zero Trust Architectures, Identity and Access Management has become a critical security control that testing teams can no longer treat as a black box. Traditional role-based access models struggle to keep pace with dynamic cloud environments, non-human identities, and evolving threat patterns. This session explores how AI-driven identity governance transforms access validation into a continuous, testable security practice. Drawing from real enterprise implementations across finance, healthcare, and e-commerce, the presentation demonstrates how behavioral analytics,...
Beyond Coverage: Governing GenAI-Generated Tests with Metrics Leaders Can Trust
Generative AI has created a new risk for quality leaders: "Coverage Theater." This occurs when AI-generated test suites inflate code coverage metrics to record highs while silently reducing assertion quality, leaving teams with green dashboards but escaping defects. In this session, Niranjan will dismantle this illusion by implementing a Quality Governance Audit using two advanced metrics that reveal what coverage hides. He will introduce the Assertion Strength Index (ASI), a scoring framework that rates tests from generic "existence checks" to rigorous business validation, exposing GenAI’...