At the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, HiddenLayer CEO and co-founder Chris “Tito” Sestito outlined a rapidly shifting cybersecurity landscape driven by the rise of agentic AI systems.
As enterprises move from static AI models to autonomous agents capable of executing tasks, interacting with data, and engaging with customers, the attack surface expands dramatically. Sestito emphasized that while these systems unlock powerful new efficiencies, they also introduce new vulnerabilities, including prompt injection, excessive access, and single points of failure that can be exploited by both internal missteps and external threat actors.
Hidden Layer’s latest platform enhancements, including agentic runtime visibility and expanded telemetry, are designed to address this emerging risk environment by giving organizations deep observability into how AI agents behave, interact, and potentially expose sensitive systems.
The broader challenge, Sestito argues, is that enterprises are deploying AI faster than they can secure it, creating a uniquely risky moment where attackers are rapidly adapting alongside defenders. In this new paradigm, organizations must rethink traditional security strategies to account for autonomous systems operating at machine speed, often with broad, cross-functional access.
