Securing the Agentic Enterprise | Interview with Charlie Lewis

Episode notes

Host Dejan Kosutic interviews McKinsey & Co. partner Charlie Lewis about how agentic AI will reshape cybersecurity by reinventing existing categories - especially identity, detection, operations, and vulnerability management - rather than creating entirely new ones. Lewis argues every company will manage a massive digital workforce of dynamically created, short-lived agents with constantly changing permissions, pushing traditional IAM beyond its design and requiring workforce-plus-agent identity, stronger data governance, and an “agent registry.” They discuss the need to strengthen foundational controls like IT asset management, map business processes to prioritize attack paths, and shift security from periodic detection to continuous runtime governance with real-time policy enforcement. Lewis predicts more machine-operated, human-supervised SOC work, highlights in-demand skills, and advises CISOs to embed with the business, fix processes before automating, and pilot agentic use cases in security.

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