Ignasi Barrera

Conferences, workshops and meetup presentations.

• Rescue Agents from Prototype Purgatory: Operationalize Agent Readiness

  Agentics Day: MCP + Agents. KubeCon EU 2026 Co-Located Event

  How Agent Readiness pairs qualitative standards with enforceable control points to rescue agents from infinite prototype loops.

• Do you need an AI Gateway?

  MCP Dev Summit Europe, London 2025

  Framing MCP pain points and how an MCP gateway provides a solid foundation to leverage MCP at scale in enterprise environments.

• The Role of NGAC and Service Mesh for Enterprise-wide Authorization

  Zero Trust and High Assurance for Cloud Native Applications, NIST 2023

  Introducing NGAC and Service Mesh for enterprise-wide authorization, with a demo of Policy as Code at scale.

• Service Mesh as the Security Kernel for Zero Trust Platforms

  Zero Trust Architecture and DevSecOps for Cloud-Native Applications, NIST 2022

  Demonstrating how a Service Mesh can be used as a Security Kernel to implement Zero Trust platforms.

• Access Control for Microservices

  Istio Weekly live stream, 2021

  Presenting NGAC and why it is a perfect fit as an access control framework for micro-services.

Issued and pending patents.

• NGAC Graph Evaluations

  US-11811771-B2 · November 7, 2023

  A technique to bind authenticated principals to policy classes allowing all policy classes to be evaluated in a single access decision.

• Repeatable NGAC Policy Class Structure

  US-20220156393-A1 · May 19, 2022

  A Policy Class structure for safely introducing new NGAC Policy Classes and gradually migrating existing objects to them.

Academic papers and research publications.

• Distributed Exchange of Alerts for the Detection of Coordinated Attacks

  Joaquín García-Alfaro, Ignasi Barrera

  Using the publish/subscribe model for a decentralized attack detection and prevention framework.