The Built for Trust Podcast explores the critical elements of creating trusted enterprise AI infrastructures that are reliable, scalable, secure and cost efficient. Join your host, Nick Lippis, as he delves into the intricacies of building a reliable and secure IT foundation while streamlining the complexities that have emerged in the rapidly evolving technological landscape.
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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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When an AI model can discover and exploit decades-old vulnerabilities in hours, enterprise security changes fast.
In this episode, Nick Lippis is joined by Peter Campbell, Senior Director of Cloud Security at Cigna, and Dev Awasthi, AI Security Advisor at Accenture, to unpack what Anthropic’s Mythos model and Project Glasswing mean for enterprise defenders.
They discuss how vulnerability timelines are collapsing from weeks to hours, why traditional patch management is reaching its limits, and why defending AI with AI is quickly becoming a requirement, not a choice.
Peter and Dev introduce the idea of Digital Darwinism, where the organizations that adapt fastest will be the ones that keep up. The conversation also covers the human toll of alert fatigue, why agentic security needs to be built incrementally, and what separates organizations that pause from those that move forward.
Nick, Peter, and Dev will continue this discussion at the AI Networking Summit in Dallas, May 13–14. Learn more and register to join the conversation.
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Enterprise IT operations have long scaled by adding people.
L1 teams, offshore support, and manual response became the norm. But as infrastructure grows more complex and fast-moving, that model is breaking.
In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis sits down with Assaf Resnick, CEO of BigPanda, to unpack the $250 billion problem behind modern IT operations.
They discuss:
They also outline a new model: prevent issues, automate L1, and augment expert teams during major incidents.
If you’re thinking about how AI will reshape enterprise operations, this episode makes it real.
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In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis shares findings from a recent ONUG community survey of senior practitioners managing large-scale, regulated enterprise infrastructure.
The results paint a clear picture: the hype around AI is real, the investment is real, but production deployments are lagging far behind. And the primary reason may be the network itself.
Nick walks through what the data reveals about why governance and compliance have emerged as the top inhibitor to scaling AI, why organizations remain deeply divided on where sensitive AI workloads should live, and why enterprises are deploying agents faster than they are building the infrastructure to support them.
Only 18% of respondents believe their infrastructure roadmap is keeping pace with AI’s trajectory. The community knows the stakes. The question is whether they move fast enough to lead or spend the next few years catching up.
If you want to know where enterprise AI actually stands today, the data in this episode tells the real story.
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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 infrastructure is entering a new phase, and the shift starts at the silicon layer.
In this episode, Nick Lippis is joined by Cisco leaders Tom Gillis and Nick Kucharewski to explore how advances in networking silicon are redefining enterprise infrastructure as organizations move from experimentation to production.
Programmable silicon, high-performance Ethernet, and distributed system design are enabling a new model where the network becomes the fabric that connects and orchestrates AI workloads across compute, memory, and data. This shift is changing how enterprises think about scale, performance, and control.
The conversation also examines how security and observability are moving into the network itself, along with the need for architectural flexibility as enterprises look to build AI-ready environments without hyperscaler complexity.
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As AI moves beyond the data center into real-world environments, the network is being pushed into entirely new territory.
In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis speaks with Allwyn Sequeira, CEO of Highway 9 Networks, about how AI, mobility, and edge computing are converging to reshape enterprise infrastructure.
They explore why traditional wireless approaches fall short in AI-driven environments, how private and public cellular are emerging as a critical foundation, and what it takes to connect machines, devices, and inferencing systems in real time.
The conversation examines the convergence of IT and OT, the role of AI-native mobile infrastructure, and how agentic AI is driving a shift from automated to more autonomous operations.
As enterprises move from AI experimentation to real-world deployment, the network has to evolve. It must support real-time, distributed intelligence across devices, the edge, and the cloud.
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As AI reshapes enterprise infrastructure, most conversations focus on models, agents, and applications. But beneath it all, the network is being fundamentally redefined.
In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis speaks with Vishal Shukla, Co-Founder and CEO of Aviz Networks, about the two dimensions shaping the future: building networks for AI workloads and using AI to operate them.
They explore how agentic operations are evolving toward autonomy, why the network is emerging as the real bottleneck, and how distributed inference and AI factories are changing performance requirements.
The conversation also tackles build vs. buy decisions in a rapidly evolving landscape, including where to standardize, what to build vs. buy, and how to get started without falling behind.
If you’re navigating AI infrastructure decisions, this episode makes one thing clear: the winners won’t be those who pick the right tools, but those who build systems that can adapt as everything changes.
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AI is moving fast, but most enterprises are still trying to answer a fundamental question: should you build your own AI infrastructure or buy it?
In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis speaks with Todd Nightingale, from Arista, and they break down how leading organizations are approaching that decision and why the answer increasingly comes down to one thing: data.
They explore why many enterprises are starting with token-based models, what is driving the shift toward private infrastructure, and how concerns around data privacy and control are shaping AI strategy. The conversation also goes deeper into what actually creates value in AI systems, why it is not about choosing a model, and how integration, workflows, and access to the right data are becoming the real differentiators.
Beyond infrastructure, they discuss how AI is changing network design, accelerating innovation cycles, and enabling a future of more autonomous operations.
If you are thinking about how to operationalize AI in your organization, this episode offers a clear framework for where to start and what matters most.
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Modern applications generate more operational data than ever before. Microservices architectures, cloud infrastructure, and rapid development cycles have created a world where systems emit massive volumes of logs, metrics, and traces, often far more than teams can realistically analyze.
In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis speaks with Jad Naous, Founder of Grepr, about how the observability landscape is evolving as organizations confront the reality of exponential telemetry growth. From petabytes of system data to rising observability costs, they explore why traditional monitoring approaches are reaching their limits.
Jad explains how identifying application behavior patterns within telemetry streams can massively reduce noise while preserving the signals that matter most. The conversation also looks ahead to a future where AI-powered systems can detect anomalies, surface critical insights, and help operations teams resolve issues before they escalate based upon these application behavior patterns.
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Agentic AI is rapidly moving from experimentation to real enterprise deployments. As organizations begin running hundreds or even thousands of AI agents across hybrid environments, the challenge becomes how to govern them safely at scale.
In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis walks through a demonstration of the ONUG Agentic AI Overlay and the control framework designed to prevent rogue agents from compromising enterprise systems. He explains the six critical controls required to manage identity, data access, infrastructure tools, and cross domain interactions in agentic environments.
If agentic AI is going to scale in the enterprise, it will require more than powerful models. It will require trusted infrastructure and clear governance.
Learn more about the AI Agentic Overlay here.
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