Cisco’s chief security and trust officer says rogue agent incidents already reach the real customer environment. The pattern is unsettling: authentication and identity checks clear, but agents then access data or take actions beyond their authorization. Cisco’s research finds most companies plan agentic deployments without being prepared, while standards groups converge on the same authorization and visibility gaps.
A Fortune 50 security incident revealed a dangerous IAM blind spot: the agent’s credential and access were authorized, yet it still made a catastrophic policy change. Cisco’s Duo identity team lays out a six-stage model to govern agentic AI—moving from identity discovery to action-level gateways, better telemetry, isolation, and compliance mapping.
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