RANT Roundtable in partnership with CISCO

The rise of the AI agent has been mirrored in the cybersecurity community by the growth of what we’re going to call AI Angst. For every new large-language model that launches an automated element, another bunch of already harassed cybersecurity professionals tear out ever larger clumps of their hair as they prepare to watch, helpless, as their business’s AI-obsessed leaders drive the company off the top of the data-security cliff.

And yet, for all that they might look novel and unprecedented, the threats posed by agentic AI are usually just the same old challenges dressed up in agentic new clothes. Admittedly, the scale, scope and pace at which automated systems can wreak havoc is challenging. But the problems that they cause are familiar to security teams: you still have to manage access, reduce your threat surface, and stop attackers moving laterally.

So the challenge is not to find new tools to defeat new threats, but to find better means of making the business more resilient to the kinds of problems security leaders have been facing for decades. Our friends at Cisco argue that a hybrid mesh firewall will help you build back some resilience into your business’s digital foundations, allowing you to use existing tools and expertise to solve tomorrow’s emerging problems.

Join a group of your senior cybersecurity leadership peers, and representatives from Cisco, to discuss whether there might be an easier way to reduce agentic AI angst than having to rip up your security system and start again from scratch.