We're calling it: Agentic AI will win RSAC buzzword Bingo

RSAC The security industry loves its buzzwords, and this is always on full display at the annual RSA Conference event in San Francisco. Don't believe us? Take a lap on the expo floor, and you'll be bombarded with enough acronyms and over-the-top claims to send you straight to the nearest bar, which will likely serve specialty cocktails with names like The Great CASB and Firewall Fizz.While the last couple of years have been all about AI — promising fully autonomous security operations centers (SOCs) and predicting that large language models (LLMs) could exploit zero-days with no human intervention — we expect the 2025 conference at the end of this month to be all about agentic AI.As with all emerging tech, AI agents mean different things to different people. But broadly speaking, it's a task-oriented AI that sits on top of a LLM and can analyze data and take action, at least somewhat independently of a human. These agents are designed to learn and improve over time, serving as intellig...