India’s cyber resilience push must confront the internal AI agent attack surface
By Abhishek G Sharma
The uncomfortable part of agentic AI is not the model. It is the permission set around the model.
Express Computer’s April 2026 conversation on cyber resilience for India’s AI era made a useful point through Sandeep Agarwal, CTO, Security, Cisco India and South Asia: with agentic AI, the concern shifts from what systems say to what they do. That line matters because many enterprise security plans still treat AI as a content, model, or data leakage problem. Agents turn it into an action problem.
In my experience, this is where the risk often gets misread. Teams spend time arguing about model choice, prompt policy, and productivity gains, while the agent quietly receives access to ticketing queues, customer records, cloud consoles, code repositories, financial workflows, or software delivery tools.
The dangerous part is not that the agent is malicious. The dangerous part is that it may be...
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