In the agentic era, identity and intent become the new pillars of enterprise security
As enterprises move deeper into the AI era, the traditional security model built primarily around human users is beginning to face a fundamental challenge. AI agents are no longer simply assisting employees with tasks. They are increasingly interacting with enterprise data, applications and APIs, making decisions and taking actions autonomously.
According to Ninad Katkar, Leader, Security, Cisco India & South Asia, this does not mean abandoning user-centric security but extending the architecture to account for a new class of digital actors. “AI agents are becoming a new class of the digital workforce. These agents basically hold identities, they access applications, they keep on making API calls, and they do the data interactions also. And they also interact with other agents, which is a very fundamental and unique thing about the agents.”
The defining challenge, he says, is the speed at which these systems operate. Unlike human users, agents can execute...
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