In this interview from theCUBE + NYSE Wired: Dell Technologies Symposium, John Scimone, president and chief security officer of Dell Technologies, joins theCUBE's Dave Vellante to discuss the dual race between enterprise AI adoption and the emerging agentic threat landscape. Scimone explains how the shift from knowledge-based AI assistants to autonomous agents fundamentally changes cyber risk, moving the conversation beyond data protection toward safeguarding the actions agents take on a company's behalf. He details Dell's role in Anthropic's Glasswing program, which brings AI-powered defense capabilities to organizations responsible for critical infrastructure.
The conversation explores how agent identity management differs for personal versus enterprise agents, each requiring distinct governance and permissioning models. Scimone breaks down how agentic AI has collapsed the barriers to entry for attackers, making tomorrow's least sophisticated threats more capable than last year's nation-state operations. He underscores that security fundamentals haven't changed, but argues that human oversight must now focus on strategy, governance and irreversible decisions while agents operate at unprecedented speed and scale. Scimone also addresses how Dell balances top-down AI mandates with employee experimentation, tightly guardrailing enterprise agents while giving personal agents more latitude. From confronting the mystery around rapidly evolving models to warning that excessive risk aversion is now the bigger threat than the technology itself, Scimone makes the case that confidence, not caution, will separate secure, competitive organizations from those left behind.
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John Scimone, Dell Technologies
In this interview from theCUBE + NYSE Wired: Dell Technologies Symposium, John Scimone, president and chief security officer of Dell Technologies, joins theCUBE's Dave Vellante to discuss the dual race between enterprise AI adoption and the emerging agentic threat landscape. Scimone explains how the shift from knowledge-based AI assistants to autonomous agents fundamentally changes cyber risk, moving the conversation beyond data protection toward safeguarding the actions agents take on a company's behalf. He details Dell's role in Anthropic's Glasswing program, which brings AI-powered defense capabilities to organizations responsible for critical infrastructure.
The conversation explores how agent identity management differs for personal versus enterprise agents, each requiring distinct governance and permissioning models. Scimone breaks down how agentic AI has collapsed the barriers to entry for attackers, making tomorrow's least sophisticated threats more capable than last year's nation-state operations. He underscores that security fundamentals haven't changed, but argues that human oversight must now focus on strategy, governance and irreversible decisions while agents operate at unprecedented speed and scale. Scimone also addresses how Dell balances top-down AI mandates with employee experimentation, tightly guardrailing enterprise agents while giving personal agents more latitude. From confronting the mystery around rapidly evolving models to warning that excessive risk aversion is now the bigger threat than the technology itself, Scimone makes the case that confidence, not caution, will separate secure, competitive organizations from those left behind.
In this interview from theCUBE + NYSE Wired: Dell Technologies Symposium, John Scimone, president and chief security officer of Dell Technologies, joins theCUBE's Dave Vellante to discuss the dual race between enterprise AI adoption and the emerging agentic threat landscape. Scimone explains how the shift from knowledge-based AI assistants to autonomous agents fundamentally changes cyber risk, moving the conversation beyond data protection toward safeguarding the actions agents take on a company's behalf. He details Dell's role in Anthropic's Glasswing progra...Read more
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