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The Bot Layer
Concise updates on agentic AI, commerce evolution, and systems thinking. Current focus: practitioner notes on agentic cybersecurity agents — building, securing, and governing autonomous defensive tools.
Latest Articles
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The Agentic Frontier: An Industry Analysis of Auto-GPT-for-Security and the Evolving SOC
An industry analysis of how agentic AI frameworks like Auto-GPT-for-Security are restructuring the modern SOC — from autonomous triage and the collapse of the Tier 1 analyst role to the rise of Agent Orchestrators and AI-SPM.
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Defensive Agent Safety: Best Practices for Engineers Who Worry Their Agents Could Be Turned Against Them
Practical safety patterns for engineers building defensive AI agents — covering adversarial robustness, prompt injection containment, least-privilege design, and how to keep your defender from becoming the attacker's best asset.
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Connecting an LLM to Nuclei: A Practitioner's Architecture Guide
A hands-on walkthrough of the architecture for connecting a large language model to the Nuclei vulnerability scanner — with safe configuration patterns, pseudocode, and scope-control guidance.
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One Platform for the Agentic AI Era
Cisco's unified platform strategy for the Agentic AI era, addressing security, governance, and infrastructure challenges.
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Identity is the New Vehicle (and AI is Driving)
How identity has become the new security perimeter as AI agents operate autonomously at machine speed, and what organizations need to do to adapt.
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A Shift in AI
Exploring the transformative shifts in AI technology and their impact on business and society.
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The Future is Agentic: Marketing's Move from Channels to 1-to-1 Agents
How agentic AI is changing marketing from channel-based campaigns to continuous 1-to-1 agents, and what brands must do to adapt.
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The Retail Evolution: Google and Walmart Bet Big on Agentic Commerce
How Google and Walmart's partnership points toward an agentic future for commerce — embedded buying, digital personal shoppers, and what brands must prepare for.