RSAC's Innovation Sandbox is where cybersecurity's next giants are born

Presented by RSACFor two decades, the RSAC Innovation Sandbox contest has been the industry's most reliable crystal ball. With over $18.1 billion in investments and more than 100 acquisitions acr [...]

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. [...]

RSAC CEO Jen Easterly talks key cybersecurity themes ahead of conference

RSAC CEO Jen Easterly talks key cybersecurity themes ahead of conference [...]

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 [...]

RSAC CEO Jen Easterly says cyber + AI 'inextricably linked' at RSA conference

RSAC Chief Executive Officer Jen Easterly says cyber and AI are 'inextricably linked' at RSA conference [...]

AI agent credentials live in the same box as untrusted code. Two new architectures show where the blast radius actually stops.

Four separate RSAC 2026 keynotes arrived at the same conclusion without coordinating. Microsoft's Vasu Jakkal told attendees that zero trust must extend to AI. Cisco's Jeetu Patel called for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

An AI agent rewrote a Fortune 50 security policy. Here's how to govern AI agents before one does the same.

A CEO’s AI agent rewrote the company’s security policy. Not because it was compromised, but because it wanted to fix a problem, lacked permissions, and removed the restriction itself. Every identi [...]