{"id":199614,"date":"2026-03-26T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/rsac-2026-spotlights-data-security-chaos-in-the-ai-age\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T05:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:55:15","slug":"rsac-2026-spotlights-data-security-chaos-in-the-ai-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/rsac-2026-spotlights-data-security-chaos-in-the-ai-age\/","title":{"rendered":"RSAC 2026 spotlights data security chaos in the AI age"},"content":{"rendered":"

RSAC 2026 spotlights data security chaos in the AI age<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/siliconangle.com\/2026\/03\/26\/rsac-2026-spotlights-data-security-chaos-ai-age-rsac26\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-26 15:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: siliconangle.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: <\/a><\/p>\n

Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAI agents are unleashing a more chaotic era of enterprise cybersecurity, one in which identities are transitory, actions are autonomous and governance struggles to keep pace. But what if the growing threat to data security is also creating the industry\u2019s next big opportunity?
\nRSAC day four opened with those themes in focus, but none felt more urgent than the idea that ephemeral AI agents are breaking traditional identity and access models. These agents spin up, complete tasks, spawn new agents and deprecate themselves \u2014 a pattern that demands an entirely new approach to trust and governance, according to Zeus Kerravala (pictured, left), founder and principal analyst at ZK Research LLC.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s unlike anything the security industry\u2019s ever had to deal with before,\u201d Kerravala said, reflecting on the new urgency facing security suppliers in the wake of Nvidia GTC. \u201cHow you manage identities and how you onboard access and how you delegate trust and governance, all that\u2019s going to change. Our attack surface has gone from something that was unmanageable to begin with to completely chaotic.\u201d
\nKerravala spoke with theCUBE\u2019s Dave Vellante\u00a0(right) and Christophe Bertrand\u00a0(center) at the RSAC 2026 Conference as part of a day four industry analysis, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media\u2019s livestreaming studio. They discussed how AI agents are reshaping data security, identity governance and the economics of the cybersecurity industry. (* Disclosure below.)
\nData security meets the agentic identity crisis
\nThe data security challenge is compounding as enterprises adopt agents faster than they can govern them.\u00a0Without proper baselines for normal agent behavior, detecting anomalies remains an open problem, Kerravala explained. But the irony is that AI vs. AI may be the only model that scales effectively enough in an agent-driven security environment.
\n\u201cYou need AI to secure AI,\u201d Kerravala said. \u201cIf you\u2019re a security team today and you\u2019re not on board with AI, you are going to fall behind very quickly. There\u2019s no stopping the train here.\u201d
\nMeanwhile, the underlying data itself remains the core asset at risk. Organizations are building AI systems on data that is neither adequately protected nor properly managed, creating compounding exposure, Bertrand noted.
\n\u201cData is still everything,\u201d he said. \u201cRight now, data is not being protected enough. It\u2019s not being managed enough. We\u2019re sort of building the plane as we\u2019re flying it.\u201d
\nThe question of what data security even means in the agentic era may be the hardest one to answer, Bertrand added. As cyber resilience, identity management and agent governance converge, pricing models and product boundaries are in flux.
\n\u201cWhat is security anymore? Is it recoverability? Is it about identity management? Is it about managing agents? Is it about managing the data and making it secure?\u201d Bertrand asked. \u201cI think once we see a little more consolidation and see where the chips fall, that will drive a lot of how the pricing is done.\u201d
\nBut the opportunity is not just financial \u2014 it\u2019s reputational. AI could give security teams a chance to stop being seen as blockers and start being valued as enablers of speed, Kerravala explained.\u00a0
\n\u201cThe security industry has an opportunity to change its narrative,\u201d he said. \u201cInstead of being the \u2018Department of No\u2019, [it can] be the underlying governance and security foundation that lets a company come out of the blocks running. No longer are you a business inhibitor \u2014 you\u2019re a business accelerator.\u201d\u00a0
\nHere\u2019s the complete keynote, part of SiliconANGLE\u2019s and theCUBE\u2019s coverage of the RSAC 2026 Conference:<\/p>\n

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the RSAC 2026 Conference. Sponsors of theCUBE\u2019s event coverage do not have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
\nPhoto: SiliconANGLE<\/p>\n

Support our mission to keep content open and free by engaging with theCUBE community. Join theCUBE\u2019s Alumni Trust Network, where technology leaders connect, share intelligence and create opportunities.<\/p>\n

15M+ viewers of theCUBE videos, powering conversations across AI, cloud, cybersecurity and more
\n11.4k+ theCUBE alumni \u2014 Connect with more than 11,400 tech and business leaders shaping the future through a unique trusted-based network.<\/p>\n

About SiliconANGLE Media<\/p>\n

SiliconANGLE Media is a recognized leader in digital media innovation, uniting breakthrough technology, strategic insights and real-time audience engagement. As the parent company of SiliconANGLE, theCUBE Network, theCUBE Research, CUBE365, theCUBE AI and theCUBE SuperStudios \u2014 with flagship locations in Silicon Valley and the New York Stock Exchange \u2014 SiliconANGLE Media operates at the intersection of media, technology and AI.<\/p>\n

Founded by tech visionaries John Furrier and Dave Vellante, SiliconANGLE Media has built a dynamic ecosystem of industry-leading digital media brands that reach 15+ million elite tech professionals. Our new proprietary theCUBE AI Video Cloud is breaking ground in audience interaction, leveraging theCUBEai.com neural network to help technology companies make data-driven decisions and stay at the forefront of industry conversations.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RSAC 2026 spotlights data security chaos in the AI age https:\/\/siliconangle.com\/2026\/03\/26\/rsac-2026-spotlights-data-security-chaos-ai-age-rsac26\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-26 15:24:00…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/d15shllkswkct0.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_1511-e1774549331588.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24,28],"class_list":["post-199614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199616,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199614\/revisions\/199616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}