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Is identity in crisis?

CISO Perspectives: Join Chris Anderson, Duo Product CTO, for a candid conversation with three top CISOs featured in Cisco Duo’s new CISO survey report.

From identity sprawl and AI to zero trust and M&A, listen to leaders rethink identity: what’s changing, what’s breaking, and what matters most as identity becomes central to modern security strategy.

THE SECURITY GAP

CISOs secure the autonomous workforce in 2026

As agentic AI introduces autonomous decision‑making and non‑human actors across the enterprise, CISOs must move to a unified zero trust strategy that protects all identities.

IDENTITY SECURITY COMES TOO LATE

Challenges and strategies from IT and Security leaders

Legacy tool sprawl, device and posture visibility; leaders anticipate AI challenges as identity threats escalate, and security gaps widen.

33%
Confident their IdP is secure1
74%
Admit security is an afterthought2
69%
Worried MFA is still incomplete3

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Hear what analysts have to say

Get a closer look at analyst input, check out peer insights and benchmarks you can trust.

ZERO TRUST FOR AGENTS

CISOs navigate the landscape

With 85% of enterprises using agentic AI, major security concerns remain. Hear Kevin Kennedy, VP Product Marketing and guest CISO, Anahi Santiago, discuss how AI is changing the role of security and risk.

To view the full recording and learn more on zero trust, visit Duo Agentic AI Security.

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Using Duo, we were able to suppress more than 90% of our total authentication events during one recent month. The combination of Risk Based Authentication and passwordless made 99% of our logins phishing resistant as we made the transition from having a passwordless authentication to having a passwordless-only authentication.

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Sarabjeet Rana

Principal Engineer

B&M Retail

Cisco Identity Intelligence allows our security team to identify and prioritize ways to improve our overall security posture 24/7. We benefit from swift responses to detected threats while still offering a seamless end user experience with fewer authentication interruptions helping us to alleviate pressure on our help desk. Ultimately, Duo gives us the assurance that we’re mitigating the threats to our day-to-day operations.

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Hugo Egerton

Information Security Engineer

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Identity is definitely a very porous attack surface, and I feel like it’s the root of most breaches nowadays. We get a lot of security gain by funneling things through Duo between device health, device trust, and passwordless strong authentication.

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Jason Waits

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)