Closing the Gap Between AI-Scale Attacks and Enterprise Remediation
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, June 10th, 2026
Cisco's Peter Bailey argues security must be built into the network and AI fabric to keep remediation pace with AI-scale attacks.
In a discussion with Alan Shimel at Cisco Live, Cisco's Peter Bailey argues that security must be designed into the same fabric as networking, observability, and AI services rather than bolted on afterward. Vulnerability management has been losing ground for years, and AI is poised to widen the gap on both attack and defense sides.
Bailey contends that converging Splunk data, Cisco's security controls, and Cloud Control under one AI-driven layer lets teams see vulnerabilities, exploitability, and business context in a single view.
AI-assisted discovery surfaces issues faster than humans can triage, but value only appears if remediation moves at the same speed through automated patching at scale, compensating controls for legacy systems, and prioritization tied to actual exploit likelihood.