RSAC 2026: Agentic AI Demands a New Zero-Trust Security Playbook — Cisco and Microsoft Lead the Charge
Zero-trust security was designed for humans. The assumptions baked into zero-trust frameworks — continuous verification, least-privilege access, never trust the network — were built around the behavior of human users accessing enterprise systems. AI agents are not human users. They don’t authenticate once and then work. They spawn dynamically, request broad permissions, communicate with dozens of downstream services, and operate at speeds that make human audit review impractical in real time. The security frameworks built for human users were not designed for this. ...