Trust is Key for Scaling AI: Splunk's .conf26 Takeaways
Splunk's .conf26 conference highlighted the importance of trust in the agentic era. According to Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel, trust is key for scaling AI, and it's won or lost at the layer beneath the agents.
The company's flagship user conference featured over 200 product launches, including the Cisco Data Fabric powered by Splunk. This platform aims to analyze data where it lives rather than copying everything into Splunk, reducing ingest and indexing costs.
Splunk pitched its solution as roughly 10 times the capacity at a flat bill, allowing customers to 'stop agonizing over what data you can afford.' The company also expanded its Agentic SOC Workforce with purpose-built agents across detection engineering, threat hunting, investigation, response, and governance.