Agent authorization is broken — and authentication passing makes it worse

Anthony Grieco, Cisco’s SVP and chief security and trust officer, did not hesitate when VentureBeat asked whether rogue agent incidents are reaching Cisco’s customer base."A hundred percent. [...]

85% of enterprises are running AI agents. Only 5% trust them enough to ship.

Eighty-five percent of enterprises are running AI agent pilots, but only 5% have moved those agents into production. In an exclusive interview at RSA Conference 2026, Cisco President and Chief Product [...]

The lineage behind 69% of open models was never verified. Cisco just fingerprinted almost 900 for free

A security team approving an open-source model for production today starts with a repository page. The page lists the model name, the license, and a tag identifying the base model it descended from. T [...]

OpenClaw has 500,000 instances and no enterprise kill switch

“Your AI? It’s my AI now.” The line came from Etay Maor, VP of Threat Intelligence at Cato Networks, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat at RSAC 2026 — and it describes exactly what hap [...]

OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice upgrade that lets ChatGPT talk more like a person

OpenAI on Wednesday launched GPT-Live, a pair of new voice models that fundamentally redesign how people talk to ChatGPT — replacing the company's existing Advanced Voice Mode with an architect [...]

RSAC 2026 shipped five agent identity frameworks and left three critical gaps open

“You can deceive, manipulate, and lie. That’s an inherent property of language. It’s a feature, not a flaw,” CrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview at RSA Conf [...]

Why enterprise IT operations are breaking — and how AgenticOps fixes them

Presented by Cisco AI agents are breaking traditional IT operations models, adding complexity, data silos, and fragmented workflows. DJ Sampath, Cisco's SVP of AI Software and Platform, believes [...]

Cisco warns enterprises: Without tapping machine data, your AI strategy is incomplete

Cisco executives make the case that the distinction between product and model companies is disappearing, and that accessing the 55% of enterprise data growth that current AI ignores will separate winn [...]

AI models block 87% of single attacks, but just 8% when attackers persist

One malicious prompt gets blocked, while ten prompts get through. That gap defines the difference between passing benchmarks and withstanding real-world attacks — and it's a gap most enterprise [...]