IDC Brief: AI Agents & SASE
Is your network ready for AI agents that act on their own?
This new IDC Analyst Brief sets out the identity, traffic and visibility gaps that AI agents open in enterprise networks, and how SASE has to change.
As agentic AI moves into production, a single prompt to an AI agent can fan out into many calls across apps, clouds and sites, and each call needs a network and a security decision. This IDC Analyst Brief explains where that leaves enterprise networks exposed, and what a managed SASE approach has to cover.
Written for heads of network and infrastructure, network architects, CISOs and CIOs.
What's inside the Analyst Brief?
- Identity: What changes when AI agents act with delegated authority, including access an employee kept from an earlier role
- Traffic: How agent traffic moves between clouds, colocation and SaaS, often on paths that never reach your web gateway
- Visibility: Tracking what agents do across your tools
- Worked example: How one AI-assisted customer quote exposes all three gaps at once
- SASE: How secure access service edge (SASE) has to change now that agents start requests too, and where Asia-Pacific organisations stand on it
- Checklist: Ten points to check when you choose a managed service partner
Key findings
Most enterprises already run AI agents in production, but their identity programs, networks and SASE rollouts are still catching up. Request your copy of the IDC Brief.