Ambient and Autonomous Security: Building Trust in the Agentic AI Era
Vasu Jakkal, Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti
RSAC 2026 Conference · Main Stage Keynote
In this pivotal talk at the RSA Conference, Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Security, articulated a visionary future for cybersecurity in the rapidly evolving era of **agentic AI**. The presentation, titled "Ambient and Autonomous Security: Building Trust in the Agentic AI Era," explored how the proliferation of AI agents fundamentally alters the threat landscape and demands a radical transformation in defensive strategies. Jakkal underscored that traditional, siloed security approaches are no longer adequate against AI-powered, graph-based attacks that operate at machine speed.
AI review
A polished executive keynote from a Microsoft CVP and a UAE government official that reads more like a product roadmap announcement and government PR piece than security research. The talk is heavy on vision and buzzwords, light on technical substance, and contains zero original research. It's well-produced corporate messaging dressed up as a security talk, which is exactly the kind of thing that makes practitioners roll their eyes and head to the hallway track.