By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-03-27 11:05:00
The shift from conversational AI to autonomous agents is forcing a rethink of enterprise security architecture. As AI agents take on real business tasks at scale, the industry’s long-held assumptions about access control, identity and trust are no longer sufficient. Instead, agentic AI security requires a new approach.
A recent Cisco Systems Inc. survey of large-scale enterprises found that 85% of respondents are experimenting with AI agents, yet only 5% have moved those agents into production environments. The gap between experimentation and deployment underscores how agentic AI security has become the defining barrier to enterprise-scale adoption, according to Jeetu Patel (pictured), president and chief product officer of Cisco.
“These agents [are] kind of like teenagers,” Patel told theCUBE. “They’re superbly and supremely intelligent, but they have no fear of consequences. They do stupid stuff all the time. The difference between delegation and trusted…
