What Changed
- Microsoft's Vasu Jakkal told attendees that zero trust must extend to AI.
- Cisco's Jeetu Patel called for a shift from access control to action control, saying in an exclusive interview with Venture Beat that agents behave "more like teenagers, supremely intelligent, but…
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Context
Microsoft's Vasu Jakkal told attendees that zero trust must extend to AI. Cisco's Jeetu Patel called for a shift from access control to action control, saying in an exclusive interview with Venture Beat that agents behave "more like teenagers, supremely intelligent, but with no fear of consequence." Crowd Strike's George Kurtz identified AI governance as the biggest gap in enterprise technology. Splunk's John Morgan called for an agentic trust and governance model. Matt Caulfield, VP of Product for Identity and Duo at Cisco, put it bluntly in an exclusive Venture Beat interview at RSAC. "While the concept of zero trust is good, Venture Beat need to take it a step further," Caulfield said. "It's not just about authenticating once and then letting the agent run wild. It's about continuously verifying and scrutinizing every single action the agent's trying to take, because at any moment, that agent can go rogue." Seventy-nine percent of organizations already use AI agents, according to Pw C's 2025 AI Agent Survey. Only 14.4% reported full security approval for their entire agent fleet, per the Gravitee State of AI Agent Security 2026 report of 919 organizations in February 2026. A…
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Microsoft's Vasu Jakkal told attendees that zero trust must extend to AI.