By Sander Almekinders
Publication Date: 2026-03-23 12:00:00
This year’s RSAC 2026 Conference in San Francisco will focus primarily on AI agents and the so-called agentic workforce that is expected to result from them. The announcements Cisco is making this week underscore this. AI agents must also operate according to the Zero Trust Access principle. Additionally, a version of AI Defense is coming that will allow companies to red-team their own AI models. Finally, Cisco introduces AI agents for the Agentic SOC.
AI agents are capable of quite a lot, provided they are properly configured and deployed. In our view, we certainly aren’t seeing a true “agentic workforce” yet. There is simply far too little integration between them for that. Before we get there, however, another problem must first be solved. How do we ensure that these AI agents behave appropriately? That they don’t do things they’re not supposed to and that they’re secure against external attacks.
Just before the RSAC 2026 Conference, we…
