{"id":4688,"date":"2025-09-04T09:57:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nl1g1e2381-staging.onrocket.site\/?post_type=article&#038;p=4688"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:57:26","slug":"preparing-for-the-safe-adoption-of-agentic-ai-in-networking-and-security","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/blog\/article\/preparing-for-the-safe-adoption-of-agentic-ai-in-networking-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for the Safe Adoption of Agentic AI in Networking and Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Agentic AI is on a meteoric rise. Statista projects the market will grow from $5.1 billion in 2025 to<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1552183\/global-agentic-ai-market-value\/#:~:text=In%20the%20year%202024%2C%20the,percent%2C%20as%20reported%20by%20Capgemini\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;more than $47 billion by 2030<\/a>. Meanwhile, Gartner predicts that&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/articles\/intelligent-agent-in-ai\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by 2028, 33% of all enterprise software applications will include agentic AI capabilities<\/a>. Forward-thinking CIOs are already beginning to plan how to integrate this technology into their IT departments to boost both efficiency and effectiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"What Is Agentic AI?\">What Is Agentic AI?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>While AI chatbots are limited to answering questions, agentic systems take it to the next level by operating autonomously and adapting on the fly. This means they can leverage available data and tools to pursue and execute goals with minimal human intervention - a tantalizing prospect for understaffed IT teams struggling to keep pace in complex environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"The Promise of Agentic AI\">The Promise of Agentic AI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In networking, agentic AI systems have tremendous potential to automate routine tasks and quickly resolve problems, freeing up human resources for more strategic work. For instance, when new vulnerabilities are identified...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI autonomy should be balanced with necessary human control in mission-critical network environments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4689,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4688","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4692,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4688\/revisions\/4692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}