{"id":200575,"date":"2026-03-30T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/on-thecube-pod-machine-identities-pose-cybersecurity-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:40:18","slug":"on-thecube-pod-machine-identities-pose-cybersecurity-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/on-thecube-pod-machine-identities-pose-cybersecurity-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"On theCUBE Pod: Machine identities pose cybersecurity threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

On theCUBE Pod: Machine identities pose cybersecurity threat<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/siliconangle.com\/2026\/03\/30\/machine-identities-ai-rsac-thecubepod\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-30 10:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: siliconangle.com<\/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\tThe warning bell is sounding for cybersecurity, as machine identities flood the system faster than companies can secure their data.
\nAt the annual Nvidia GTC event, Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang introduced\u00a0a series of open-source tools based on OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent. The main tool, NemoClaw, is designed to safeguard OpenClaw\u2019s outputs, but security experts remain concerned.
\n\u201cEverything that Jensen announced last week at GTC increases the surface area and the attack surface and the risk,\u201d said Dave Vellante (right), chief analyst for theCUBE Research. \u201cIt\u2019s all we talked about at [RSAC 2026]. Machine identities now outnumber human identities like 80,000 to one. Google \u2026 shared with me that they have discovered more than 800 of the OpenClaw skills that are downloadable are straight out malware.\u201d
\nOn the latest episode of theCUBE Pod, Vellante and John Furrier (left), executive analyst for theCUBE Research, discussed why the cybersecurity sphere needs to undergo a drastic shift. They also explored the proliferation of machine identities, as well as the relationship between cloud-native and AI-native technology.
\nRSAC was the canary in the coalmine for agentic AI
\nThe mood at RSAC, the annual cybersecurity conference, was ominous, according to Vellante, who called it a \u201ccanary in the coal mine.\u201d Agentic AI, if not addressed in a timely manner, could be disastrous for cybersecurity, leading to an influx of machine identities that are increasingly difficult to track and secure.
\n\u201cShadow AI was probably the number one or number two topic at RSAC this year,\u201d Vellante said. \u201cCISOs are really, really concerned about it. No question that the fear factor is very high. The other topic was there are a lot of unknown unknowns. What\u2019s the first line of defense now? Is it identity? Is it agents? It\u2019s shifting.\u201d
\nCompanies will soon need layered security throughout their infrastructure in order to combat agentic AI-powered attacks. Enterprise is already concerned about getting a return on investment for AI, Vellante and Furrier pointed out, and the threat posed by agentic AI is not reassuring.
\n\u201cEveryone last year was kind of drinking the Kool-Aid,\u201d Furrier said. \u201cThree years ago it was: Agents are bullshit. Last year, \u2018Oh, agents are good. We can do end-to-end workflows.\u2019 This year, it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh shit, agents are bad.\u2019 Full circle. It\u2019s [enterprise] going from humans to autonomous systems and from reactive to real-time machine speed.\u201d
\nMachine identities are the new Wild West
\nMachine identities are untreaded territory for cybersecurity practitioners. Instead of humans talking to humans, or agents talking to humans, security now entails agents talking to agents. And if agentic AI is the cause of the problem, then it might also have to be part of the solution, according to Furrier.
\n\u201cHumans think nondeterministically,\u201d he explained. \u201cBut the hackers are using the agents and they\u2019re non-human and they can be non-deterministic. There\u2019s a whole architectural shift. This is a game-changer for the stack because that\u2019s decades, generations of security principles completely being upended.\u201d
\nEveryone knows that agentic AI is a risk to cybersecurity but opinions are divided on what to do about it. Most companies have yet to fully adopt AI into their stack and implementing machine identities faster than they can be controlled would be a recipe for disaster, Vellante believes.
\n\u201cStart with governance,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have a strong governance structure in place and a strong culture of security and governance and compliance, what\u2019s going to happen? You\u2019re going to get shadow AI just like we have shadow IT, like we had shadow big data, except this time it\u2019s way more dangerous.\u201d
\nCloud-native meets AI-native
\nKubeCon 2026 in Amsterdam gave insight into how cloud-native practitioners are responding to the demands of AI inference. Cloud-native infrastructure has become a substrate for AI-native technology, providing the necessary governance to keep models and agents in check.
\n\u201cYou\u2019re starting to see the formation of this new architecture where the cloud-native mojo is coming to the table, but not in the leadership way of driving AI-native,\u201d Furrier said. \u201cIt\u2019s the classic standing on the shoulders of giants mentality, which is beautiful because open source is booming.\u201d
\nThe AI sector still needs an interface or framework to control the growing number of machine identities, according to Furrier, and no clear leader has emerged yet. As a \u201csystem of intelligence\u201d composed of machine identities develops, enterprises will need to figure out where it lies in relation to their data, Vellante added.
\n\u201cIf you\u2019re going to have a digital representation of your enterprise and having agents take action, you\u2019ve got to have transactions,\u201d he said. \u201cThe locality of this system of intelligence or the cognitive surface is really important. Enterprises are going to be operating \u2026 that semantic layer, that transaction layer, that\u2019s all going to be done close to the data.\u201d
\nWatch the full podcast below to find out why these industry pros were mentioned:
\nJim Kavanaugh, CEO of World Wide TechnologyMichael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell TechnologiesPeter Tuchman, stock trader, Einstein of Wall StreetBob Pisani, former CNBC correspondentJensen Huang, president, co-founder and CEO of NVidiaLena Smart, Ambassador \u2013 AIUC-1Jon Oltsik, principal analyst for cybersecurity at SiliconANGLE MediaAdi Shamir, Israeli cryptographer and inventorBipul Sinha, co-founder, chair and chief executive officer of RubrikPat Gelsinger, former CEO of IntelDavid Floyer, analyst emeritus at theCUBE ResearchGeorge Gilbert, principal analyst at theCUBE ResearchDanny Brickman, co-founder & CEO of Oasis SecurityAli Ghodsi, co-founder and chief executive officer of DatabricksBen Horowitz, general partner at Andreessen HorowitzPete Hegseth, United States Secretary of WarNir Zuk, founder and CTO of Palo Alto Networks
\nHere\u2019s the full episode of this week\u2019s theCUBE Pod:<\/p>\n

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