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Cisco highlights a critical security blind spot where autonomous AI agents operate without defined identities or access controls, inheriting broad permissions from their execution context. This shift breaks traditional identity management assumptions built for static service accounts, requiring enterprises to reimagine authentication frameworks specifically for dynamic, self-acting software entities. The article underscores the urgent need to balance rapid experimentation with agentic AI against the escalating risk of unmonitored autonomous actions in production environments.

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How Cisco is confronting the security crisis of agentic AI

ZDNetAugust 22, 20266 min read

“There are shadow agents running in almost every environment we look at,” warns Cisco’s VP of product for identity, who oversees the company’s Duo Agentic Identity product designed to solve the problem.

Agentic AI promises to transform business strategy from the ground up. But it also poses a serious challenge to IT leaders. You don’t want to slow your teams down in experimenting with autonomous agents and miss a competitive window for productivity and revenue gains. At the same time, you’re navigating a technology that evolves from week to week and, at a scale many can’t even fathom, could be putting your systems at risk. “Somewhere in your environment right now, an AI agent is almost certainly operating without a proper identity, a defined owner, or any meaningful access controls,” Cisco VP of Product for Identity Matt Caulfield, who leads the team behind Duo Agentic Identity, told ZDNET in…

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