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AI agents are about to overtake cybersecurity – for better, or worse?<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/siliconangle.com\/2026\/03\/27\/ai-agents-overtake-cybersecurity-better-worse\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-27 11:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tArtificial intelligence has been a prime concern for cybersecurity for years, but it took on a new urgency at this week\u2019s RSAC conference in San Francisco.
\nAI agents in particular were the chief concern on everyone\u2019s lips, and no wonder: You\u2019ve got these things that you give access to your data and applications, let them connect to outside services, and they \u2026 do their thing. Hopefully the right thing, but this being generative AI, who knows? Lots more below on all the implications \u2014 if not the answers, yet.
\nElsewhere on the event front, at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon in Amsterdam, AI also came up a lot, of course, but John Furrier thinks it has a long way to go to become established in enterprises, because of the \u201cAI gap.\u201d While 82% of enterprises use the de factor cloud operating layer Kubernetes, only 7% use AI daily. As John says, \u201cThat\u2019s not a gap, that\u2019s a chasm.\u201d
\nOpenAI pulled the plug on Sora, its video generation model. The most likely explanation, besides the fact that not that many people actually ended up using it following the initial frenzy, is that it used gobs of AI chips, which it clearly would prefer to employ on more lucrative enterprise AI.
\nA U.S. judge temporarily blocked the Pentagon\u2019s blacklisting of Anthropic after the Department of Defense last month designated the company a \u201csupply chain risk\u201d over disagreements over how it intends to use its chatbot Claude. Of course, this won\u2019t be the end of this ridiculous catfight.
\nLook out below:\u00a0Tech stocks suffered their worst week in almost a year, thanks to Iran war worries, Meta legal woes, memory chip shortages and threats at the same time, and more.
\nElon Musk announced that his companies will collaborate on a new, $25 billion chip fabrication plant called \u201cTerafab\u201d that he says will be by far the largest semiconductor fab ever built. Not that doubting Musk is necessarily smart, but I\u2019ll believe it when I see it.
\nHere\u2019s all the enterprise and emerging tech news, views and analysis this week from SiliconANGLE, theCUBE Research, theCUBE and beyond:
\nCyber beat: At RSAC, it was all about AI agents
\nTop analysis and interviews
\nAdversaries log in: Speed and strength of AI-fueled attacks have cybersecurity industry playing catch-up
\nBreaking Analysis: At RSAC 2026, AI hype meets operating model reality
\nThe AI security crisis has arrived: theCUBE\u2019s day one analysis from the RSAC 2026 Conference
\nAgentic security rises, even as AI value still lags: theCUBE\u2019s day two analysis from the RSAC 2026 Conference
\nSecurity buyers push back on tool sprawl: theCUBE\u2019s RSAC day three analysis
\nThe \u2018wild, wild west\u2019 of agentic security: Insights from theCUBE\u2019s RSAC closing analysis
\nAI mints a new era for cybersecurity: theCUBE\u2019s RSAC day four analysis
\nAI vs. AI: Inside Google Cloud\u2019s security strategy for machine-speed attacks
\nCisco\u2019s warning on agentic AI: One wrong action could cause irreversible damage to the enterprise
\nHighlights
\nA brief list of what most struck me roaming the RSAC conference keynotes, sessions and expo hall:
\n* We all knew this year was going to be all about artificial intelligence, but RSAC 2026 was much more specifically about AI agents \u2014 and the existential threat they pose to keeping people and organizations safe from cyberattackers.
\n* The gist: Look out. Attackers by now have not only adopted AI, they\u2019re successfully using agents for identity-based attacks, denials of service, and poisoning of the software supply chain. \u201cI\u2019m totally terrified,\u201d said Adi Shamir, a professor of computer science at the Weitmann Institute in Israel and the \u201cS\u201d in RSA, since agents require access to all his files, appointments and the like to be useful. \u201cI don\u2019t even let my wife get access to this. I can foresee many disasters.\u201d
\n* This attitude that AI will increasingly work to the advantage of attackers more than defenders is a reversal of the belief of the past couple of years, in which cybersecurity providers and enterprises quickly began using AI to improve attack detection and response, perhaps faster than attackers could use it to mount new attacks.
\n* That\u2019s over, at least for the next few years, as trillions of agents proliferate. Agents can be, to anthropomorphize them, wily. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz told stories of agents gone wild, such as one that checked into a company\u2019s Slack channel and managed to get around every security boundary. Another company fed an agent its security policy, and the agent promptly rewrote the policy to get around the guardrails. \u201cWe need to fundamentally reimagine security for the agentic workforce,\u201d added Jeetu Patel, president and chief product officer at Cisco Systems, both to protect agents from the rest of the world and the world from agents \u2014 and do so at machine speed. \u201cThis is going to be the biggest bottleneck of our time: ensuring agents are trustworthy.\u201d
\n* The key problem is that existing cyber services and software simply weren\u2019t built for something like autonomous AI agents that you give access to your data to go off and\u00a0do things on their own \u2026 without knowing exactly what the agent might do with it. Already, we\u2019ve seen attacks related to the hot agent OpenClaw, which is also a hot mess for cybersecurity. That\u2019s why we saw companies such as SentinelOne Inc. and Snyk Ltd. introduce new tools for securing agents, following others such as Nvidia that created their own secure versions of it.
\n* But cybersecurity leaders and personnel have a huge learning curve ahead of them. \u201cIt\u2019s unlike anything the security industry\u2019s ever had to deal with before,\u201d said Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst at ZK Research. \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
\n* Identity looms as a big unsolved problem, because identity tools were built for identifying individual humans, not swarms of agentic entities with potentially conflicting permissions to access applications and data. \u201cIdentity is still the No. 1 access vector,\u201d said Brian Contos, field chief information security officer at Mitiga. \u201cAI is amplifying identity-based attacks. Adversaries no longer break in, they log in.\u201d That\u2019s why Saviynt, for instance, debuted an identity control plane for agents to assert more control.
\n* In the same vein, data protection becomes all the more important in the dawning agentic era, and again \u2026 so big-data companies are dipping their toes in cybersecurity. Databricks debuted Lakewatch, a security information and event management service built atop its cloud data platform, and even acquired two startups to help. \u201cNow we can fight agents with agents,\u201d said CEO Ali Ghodsi. And the previous week, Snowflake announced that governance and security management startup Bedrock Data\u2019s AI-driven protection would be integrated into the Snowflake AI Data Cloud platform.
\n*\u00a0Since AI happens ultimately on devices such as PCs and smartphones, as well as local servers to reduce cloud latency, these so-called endpoints increasingly need protection \u2014 and we saw a lot of new and updated endpoint cybersecurity services at RSAC. For example, CrowdStrike updated its Falcon services to make the endpoint the control plane for AI security, introducing services such as EDR AI Runtime Protection and Shadow AI Discovery for Endpoint. Likewise, Palo Alto Networks pitched its secure enterprise-focused Prisma Browser as the primary \u201cSecure AI Workspace.\u201d
\n* Observability has been a growing concern in information technology generally, but now the need to understand what systems are actually doing has become acute with generative AI, which by design does unpredictable things, and agents in particular. Zscaler, for one, announced it\u2019s adding features to its AI Security Suite to give enterprises more visibility and control over how AI is being used in their environments. \u201cWe cannot protect what we cannot see,\u201d said Vasu Jakkal, vice president of Microsoft Security.
\n* All that said, agents clearly can help the defenders as well, providing ways to find vulnerabilities and intrusions that would overwhelm human capacity. \u201cThe first line of defense is going to be agents,\u201d said theCUBE Research analyst Jon Oltsik.\u00a0
\n* But if there\u2019s light at the end of the tunnel, it\u2019s still a long tunnel. Ace cryptographers such as Whitfield Diffie and Dawn Song said that in the next four to six years, the attackers will have the advantage, but that should switch in the long term as AI increasingly makes cybersecurity more automatic. We\u2019ll see.
\n* In the end, this is more than about cybersecurity. It\u2019s about about the future of humanity. \u201cWe\u2019re deploying systems at global scale that no human understands,\u201d noted SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten. \u201cAI changes how we think. What we trust. What we see first. This is a new stage of human existence and human consciousness. How do we ensure humans stay in charge? This is the defining challenge of our lifetime.\u201d
\nNew services
\nThe agentic era: How Palo Alto Networks is turning security into a business enabler
\nGoogle Cloud unveils agentic AI security strategy with Wiz integration and threat intelligence upgrades
\nMicrosoft outlines agentic AI security strategy with new Defender, Entra and Purview capabilities
\nCrowdStrike targets AI security gap with Falcon platform expansion at RSAC Conference
\nCrowdStrike expands Falcon platform with threat-informed cloud risk and data security tools
\nCisco debuts new AI agent security features, open-source DefenseClaw project\u00a0And analysis from Zeus Kerravala:\u00a0The agentic workforce is here: Why Cisco just put a \u2018Claw\u2019 on AI security
\nDatabricks introduces Lakewatch SIEM, acquires two cybersecurity startups
\nSentinelOne, Snyk introduce new tools for securing AI agents
\nF5 and Forcepoint partner to secure AI across data and runtime lifecycle
\nDataminr for Cyber Defense adds agentic AI and ThreatConnect integration
\nAkamai updates Guardicore Segmentation with AI to automate zero-trust policy enforcement
\nBarracuda expands BarracudaONE platform and overhauls Partner Success Program
\nFlashpoint unveils new threat intelligence suite to link cyber risks to business impact
\nSecurityScorecard debuts TITAN AI to reduce supply chain breaches and streamline vendor risk workflows
\nSolink upgrades VerifEye platform to streamline global security operations centers
\nPolicy
\nGoogle sets 2029 timeline for post-quantum cryptography migration
\nAttack & response
\nIran-linked hackers breach personal email account of FBI Director Kash Patel
\nMoney matters
\nOnit Security raises $11M as it launches platform to automate vulnerability remediation processes
\nAI and data: OpenAI pulls plug on Sora
\nAnalysis and food for thought
\nThe $1T infrastructure war: How Nvidia is replatforming the agentic era
\nOracle\u2019s new AI bet: Make the AI database the center of agentic workloads
\nAI and bots have officially taken over the internet, report finds
\nThe trillion-dollar race to automate our entire lives (per the Wall Street Journal)
\nGemma needs help (per LessWrong) And so do a lot of AI models when they repeatedly fail.
\nPolicy
\nJudge issues block on Pentagon\u2019s label of Anthropic as supply chain risk
\nWikipedia cracks down on contributors using AI to generate content
\nMoney matters
\nDefense startup Shield AI raises $2B, acquires flight simulation company Aechelon<\/p>\n

AI cow collar startup Halter raises $220M in latest deal Seriously?
\nGranola raises $125M at $1.5B valuation for its AI note-taking app
\nQualified Health raises $125M to transform how enterprise healthcare systems adopt AI
\nDash0 raises $110M at $1B valuation to change cloud observability with AI agents
\nOpenAI backs AI startup seeking bot army breakthroughs (per the WSJ)
\nMultichip inference cloud startup Gimlet Labs receives $80M to solve one of AI\u2019s biggest bottlenecks
\nMirage raises $75M to continue building models for its AI video-editing app Captions
\nRocketlane bags $60M from investors to accelerate professional services automation with AI agents
\nSteno raises $49M to change court reporting with AI-enabled transcript analysis
\nInsurance tech startup Shepherd raises $42M to underwrite the physical layer of AI
\nAI productivity startup Highlight AI raises $40M, appoints new CEO
\nAgentic retail dispute resolution startup Glimpse raises $35M from Andreessen Horowitz and others
\nNotch raises $30M to expand AI operating system for regulated industries
\nKrane raises $9M to expand AI-driven construction supply chain platform
\nTheia Insights raises $8M to build dynamic classification system for financial markets
\nNavi AI debuts flight training AI platform with $6.7M in funding
\nZalos raises $3.6M to develop ERP computer agents that operate finance systems like humans
\nModels and services
\nOpenAI says it\u2019s pulling the plug on Sora, its generative AI video creation tool
\nOpenAI introduces plugins for its Codex programming assistant
\nAnthropic\u2019s Claude gets computer use capabilities in preview
\nAnthropic unchains Claude Code with auto mode, allowing it to choose its own permissions
\nLeaked blog post reveals details about Anthropic\u2019s upcoming \u2018Claude Mythos\u2019 model
\nGoogle, Cohere launch new audio AI models
\nGoogle develops TurboQuant compression technology for AI models
\nAi2 releases open-source visual AI agent that can take control of web browsers
\nMistral releases an open-weights \u2018speaking\u2019 AI model with Voxtral TTS
\nOracle Fusion agentic applications signal shift toward autonomous enterprise software
\nDomo launches AI agent builder with broad enterprise data connectivity
\nExclusive: HG Insights expands revenue growth intelligence platform with agentic capabilities
\nBland launches Norm to help teams build production-ready voice agents in minutes
\nBinalyze launches Magellan to bring \u2018e-discovery\u2019 into the security operations center
\nAround the enterprise: At KubeCon, cloud-native still trumps AI<\/p>\n

Elon Musk announces ambitious $20B Terafab project to manufacture chips for space-based AI
\nBroadcom expands Kubernetes support with VKS upgrades, open-source contributions and new partnerships
\nArm launches 136-core AGI CPU for data centers
\nEmma Technologies unifies cloud infrastructure governance for legacy IT environments
\nElsewhere in tech
\nSatellite navigation startup Xona Space nabs $170M investment
\nWith $90M in funding, NoTraffic will use AI to end gridlock in America\u2019s cities
\nMeta ordered to pay $375 million in major child safety trial
\nMy prodigal brainchild: Author Neal Stephenson, who coined the term \u201cmetaverse,\u201d never really thought regular people would want to wear VR and AR goggles, as Meta Platforms\u2019 retreat proved.<\/p>\n

Comings and goings<\/p>\n

Microsoft hired former Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi\u00a0and key researchers for Mustafa Suleyman\u2019s AI team (per GeekWire).
\nMeta is laying off hundreds of staff across multiple divisions
\nMeta Platforms Chief Technology Officer Andrew \u201cBoz\u201d Bosworth, is taking over supervision of the company\u2019s efforts to become AI-native, overseeing Meta\u2019s \u201cAI for Work\u201d\u00a0initiative, which was previously led by Guy Rosen (per the WSJ).
\nOpenAI tapped former Meta executive Dave Dugan to lead its ad push.
\nSecurity device startup Verkada named Chris Stori chief information officer.
\nWhat\u2019s next
\nEarnings
\nMonday, March 30: Progress Software
\nWednesday, April 1: Penguin Systems
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