NETWORK SECURITY

of survey respondents say AI has already created networking problems

Risks such as operational disruption, degraded user experiences, longer response times, rising costs and reputational damage from outages or inconsistent policy enforcement across distributed environments are also concerns of respondents.

Network strategies to be foundational for success

With 85 % of organisations expecting moderate to major expansion in agentic AI deployment within the next 24 months, and 73 % already facing or expecting to face campus and branch network capacity limitations, the window for upgrades is shutting fast.

“ Organisations that modernise now will be better positioned to support increasingly dynamic AI workloads, maintain operational performance, strengthen visibility and security and scale AI initiatives with confidence,” the report notes.

“ Those that delay modernisation risk allowing infrastructure limitations to become a direct constraint on innovation, execution and competitiveness.”

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