Who Let All the Agents In? Securing the Agentic Era

This episode is part of a six-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes released each month.

AI agents don’t have passwords, MFA tokens, or biometrics. They’re proliferating across enterprise environments faster than any technology we’ve seen before, often without IT even knowing they’re there.

In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Cisco’s Tom Gillis (SVP, Infrastructure & Security) and Matt Caulfield (VP, Identity) to unpack why securing the agentic era is fundamentally a networking problem and what organizations need to do about it now.

Tom and Matt cover the case for a proxy-based gateway architecture that sits between agents and the resources they access, why traditional ACL-style rules won’t work against agents clever enough to route around them, and why AI will ultimately be the only thing capable of policing AI at scale.

If your organization is feeling pressure to move fast on agentic AI while keeping security intact, this episode is your starting point.

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