Imagine your organization deploying thousands of digital workers that can cross every boundary your security team built, all at once, without any malicious intent. That is the reality Neelima Rustagi from Metano.ai describes in this conversation with host Chris Johnson on MSP 1337.

Neelima brings twenty years of endpoint engineering experience to a genuinely unsettling argument: AI agents act like digital humans, crossing identity, endpoint, and network stacks simultaneously in a single action. Traditional security tools were built in silos, designed to work separately rather than together, and they simply cannot keep up. The "double whammy" she describes is striking because organizations now face external attacks and internal agent manipulation at the same time.

(And yes, she actually compares agent-based prompt attacks to internal DDoS scenarios, which is worth sitting with for a moment.)

Historically, monitoring human activity was already hard enough. Now consider managing hundreds or thousands of AI agents instead of traditional service accounts. How do you maintain visibility when legacy safeguards were never designed for this?

Neelima and Chris make a compelling case for platform-based security that consolidates fifteen separate product integrations into a unified approach. Tune in to hear why proactive identity management for AI cannot wait.