In this theCUBE Research interview, Vishal Salvi of Cognizant, senior vice president and global head of cybersecurity services, discusses agentic AI, adversarial threats, platform consolidation and strategies for cyber resilience at CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026. Salvi explains how artificial intelligence, abbreviated as AI, surfaces dormant vulnerabilities and what this means for security design segmentation and accountability; they highlight implications for identity management and non-human identities. Key takeaways include a shift toward platform consolidation and simplified architectures to reduce blast radius and a focus on cyber resilience through measures to measure, contain and recover quickly. Salvi urges chief information security officers, CISOs, to adopt clear strategies; they recommend establishing guardrails for non-human identities and treating security as continual improvement. Analysts on theCUBE emphasize board attention, budget alignment and cross-organizational accountability to address evolving cyber risk.