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In this UC Today roundtable, host Kristian McCann brings together leading security experts to confront the escalating risks of agentic AI—autonomous systems that make decisions, take actions, and roam across enterprise tech stacks often without human oversight. You’ll hear from Irina Tsukerman, President at Scarab Rising; Shlomi Beer, Co-Founder & CEO at ImpersonAlly; and Roey Eliyahu, Co-Founder & CEO at Salt Security. Together, they reveal how rapid adoption in customer support, sales, and finance is outstripping governance, enabling silent breaches via prompt injections, privilege accumulation, and API exploits that blend into normal workflows.

Expect straight talk on the productivity boom versus harsh realities—like 80% of companies facing unintended agent actions such as data leaks or unauthorized access—and proven strategies for observability, dynamic guardrails, and non-human identity governance that safeguard UC&C environments without killing innovation.

Talking points include:

Why agentic AI supercharges insider threats and erodes perimeters, exposing "internal" APIs to external manipulation even within legitimate agent permissions.

Governance blind spots in high-stakes sectors like retail and airlines (e.g., fraudulent refunds, customer data spills), demanding end-to-end visibility from LLMs to backend actions.

Runtime defenses against self-learning exploits, deceptive "sleeper" code, and endless trial-and-error attacks that humans resist but agents can't.

Zero-trust models, NHI in IAM, and regulation readiness to align agent efficiency with compliance and CX protection.

Next Steps

Share this roundtable with your CISOs, IT leaders, and business units to map agent permissions and API exposures right now.

Evaluate IAM for non-human identities and pilot tools like Salt Security for holistic agent discovery.

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AI is transforming the way we work – but is it making life easier or adding to the pressure? In this interview, Christopher Carey sits down with Snorre Kjesbu from Cisco to unpack AI's real impact on the employee experience.

Snorre makes the case that AI is an antidote to burnout, not a cause of it – freeing employees from busy work so they can focus on strategy, creativity, and the harder intellectual challenges. He also introduces the concept of "connected intelligence," where collaboration is no longer just people-to-people but now includes people-to-AI and AI-to-AI interactions.

The conversation covers how organisations are navigating AI adoption across their workflows, why cultural change is often harder than the technology itself, and what the next two to three years will bring – from AI agents becoming regular participants in meetings to IT teams gaining new superpowers through agentic AI and smarter manageability tools.

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Join Kieran Devlin, Host at UC Today, as he sits down with Tim Jalland, Solution Manager at VOSS, to unpack the rapid evolution of IT operations. As cloud environments like Microsoft 365 undergo hundreds of feature changes a year, static automation is struggling to keep pace. This session cuts through the AI hype to explore practical, outcome-driven solutions. Tune in to see exactly how intelligent automation fabrics can empower your IT team, prevent outages before users even notice them, and secure complex collaboration ecosystems.

The landscape of unified communications is shifting rapidly, and IT teams need more than just basic automation to keep up. In this conversation, we explore how an intelligent operations layer changes the day-to-day reality for IT professionals.

Key takeaways from our discussion include:

The limits of traditional automation: Why the sheer volume of updates in platforms like Microsoft 365 requires a shift from static orchestration to dynamic, learning-capable operations.
AI as an operational assistant: Moving past "AI as a feature" fatigue to focus on tangible outcomes, using agentic AI to proactively support IT teams rather than replace them.
Breaking down IT silos: How unifying automation, analytics, and monitoring on a single platform allows for cross-stack intelligence—catching and correcting negative trends before monitoring dashboards even flash red.
Real-world proactive fixes: Tangible examples of AI detecting service degradation before a user ticket is raised, and automatically correcting configuration drift to eliminate security risks.

Next Steps: Ready to transform your UC operations? Visit VOSS to learn more.

AI interactions are introducing behavioral risks that traditional DLP and rule-based systems were never designed to detect. In this executive conversation, Marcus Law is joined by Dan Nadir, Chief Product Officer at Theta Lake, and Irwin Lazar, President and Principal Analyst at Metrigy, to explore how generative and agentic AI are creating entirely new categories of governance risk.
The discussion covers why monitoring isolated prompts and outputs is no longer enough, and why organizations need forensic-level analysis of interaction patterns over time. From behavioral drift and intent detection to the growing complexity of agentic AI, this conversation sets out what enterprises need to be thinking about — and doing — right now.
Topics include: why only 58% of organizations have a proactive AI governance strategy, how traditional DLP systems miss subtle data probing and intent-based risks, what behavioral drift looks like in practice, how agentic AI blurs the line between human and machine accountability, and practical steps CIOs and CISOs can take in the next 60 to 90 days.

What is AI really doing to workers psychologically? Christopher Carey sits down with Candice Thompson, a Silicon Valley-based licensed psychotherapist specialising in workplace mental health, to get an honest, ground-level view of how AI is impacting the mental health and identity of workers in the tech industry.

From rising expectations and mass layoffs to identity crises and the fear of building your own replacement, Candice shares what she's actually seeing in her practice – and it's not the rosy picture the marketing messages would have you believe.

In this episode, we cover:
🔵 Why AI could be creating more work, not less, for many tech employees
🔵 The psychological toll of layoffs and job insecurity in Silicon Valley
🔵 How AI is reshaping worker identity, purpose, and self-worth
🔵 What tech leaders are getting wrong about their workforce
🔵 What it would actually take for AI to improve employee wellbeing
🔵 The growing risk of worker backlash – and why leaders should pay attention

Candice Thompson is a psychotherapist based in Silicon Valley, working with tech professionals navigating burnout, anxiety, and the psychological impact of AI-driven change. She has delivered talks nationally on AI and mental health, including a TEDx Talk.

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