Umesh Mahajan of Broadcom is vice president and general manager for the application networking and security division and appears on theCUBE Research at VMware Explore 2026 to discuss agentic artificial intelligence and enterprise security. Mahajan analyzes how autonomous agents and large language model driven threats expand enterprise attack surfaces; they outline how integrated security stacks such as zero trust, lateral segmentation, virtual patching, intrusion detection and prevention pipelines and ingress protection defend Kubernetes and AI workloads. Mahajan states organizations must adopt end-to-end zero trust and accelerate lateral security deployment because agentic AI increases attack velocity and scale. They emphasize the need for real-time discovery and visibility, AI enhanced signature pipelines for virtual patching and Avi WAAP for API protection at ingress. Analysts on theCUBE Research emphasize hypervisor-level throughput and low-latency controls to secure AI infrastructure at scale.