Many homes need fences, just as many organizations need a cybersecurity perimeter—but agentic AI, combined with some other big trends, could make it harder than ever to defend those edges.

According to CrowdStrike’s CTO of the Americas Cristian Rodriguez, perimeter-based cybersecurity has dealt with the rise of remote work and cloud applications. Now agentic AI could flood organizations with a host of synthetic identities and automated, unsupervised workflows, making it easier than ever for attackers to bypass traditional defenses.

“The new perimeter is wherever the user is going, it’s on the endpoint itself,” Rodriguez said. “It’s the identity that’s authentic, authenticating against the endpoint itself, but then also the identity that’s authorized to access any of the services that you are publishing for your employees.”

Check the guardrails.—CN

Agentic AI is the way of the future—at least, that’s what tech companies are constantly telling us. However, many of the employees tasked with deploying it within organizations aren’t sure they’re ready to meet the moment.

A new report from Harvard Business Review, sponsored by telemetry provider Cribl, is the latest evidence of this disconnect. According to the research, a near-universal 96% of respondents—all of whom were in the HBR audience and “from organizations considering, piloting, or actively using agentic AI and who are both involved in their organization’s agentic AI decisions and familiar with telemetry”—report that agentic AI is expected to be important to their organization going forward.

But a mere 23% actually have a strategy for utilizing the technology.

Make it happen.—EH

There’s more than enough AI FOMO to go around in the business world right now.

C-suite executives fret about getting left behind as more and more companies automate their systems and processes. But jumping in head-first on AI, even when IT pros are being directed to do so, can lead to redundant applications, inefficient use cases, and the dreaded “AI sprawl.”

So, how do you follow the broad directives from above to incorporate AI and increase efficiency without sacrificing the carefully optimized IT systems already in place? Working IT professionals told Morning Brew that getting AI integration right relies on careful preparation, planning, and supervision.

Follow the leader.—TC

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