Agentic AI: Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread

Enterprises are racing to adopt AI — but are they moving forward strategically, or simply following the hype cycle?

While Generative AI has largely been confined to content creation and productivity enhancements, Agentic AI represents something far more consequential: autonomous systems capable of discovering, invoking, and orchestrating business workflows. The recent revelations from OpenClaw and Claude Code indicate that a seismic shift is underway in the world of application development, where AI is now consuming the software that was eating the world.  That shift raises profound security questions — especially as APIs and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) become the connective tissue between AI agents and core enterprise business systems.

Join, Rik Turner, Chief Analyst at Omdia in conversation with Philippe Leothaud, CTO at 42Crunch as they separate signal from noise and explore the practical implications for enterprises seeking to enable the AI enterprise with agentic AI, but ensure that the appropriate security guardrails are in place.

Together, they will examine:

• What new threats Agentic AI introduces to enterprise systems
• The role APIs play in an AI-centric architecture
• The distinction between client-side and server-side security in AI workflows
• Why API protection must sit at the core of any serious AI security guardrail strategy
• How the secure MCP server can play a critical control role for enterprises seeking to accelerate AI adoption without increasing operational or compliance risk.

This session is essential for CISOs, CIOs, AI leaders, API product owners and architects who want to move beyond experimentation and build a secure, scalable AI enterprise.