The rise of exosystems: how AI is reshaping IT security

AI is transforming your attack surface far beyond your data centers and clouds. This report introduces “exosystems” — high-performance WAN-plus-security architectures that sit between your users, AI models and applications — and explains why they’re becoming critical to securing nondeterministic, agentic AI at scale.

Learn how leading providers, patterns and controls are converging into an exosystem “superpattern” that can help you manage risk, latency and cost for next-generation AI workloads.

This report includes:

• A clear definition of exosystems and how they differ from legacy network and cloud security models
• How AI workloads and agentic systems are driving new requirements for real-time, in-line security controls
• Examples of exosystem providers across CDN, SASE, telco, cloud and data-center interconnect segments
• The security implications of prompt-level controls, model access, and AI “watchdog” functions at the network edge
• Survey data on enterprise drivers for modernization, including security, agility and user experience in an AI-first landscape