Securing data centers in the agentic AI era

This whitepaper outlines how data centers have become critical national infrastructure in the era of agentic AI and explains the heightened risk of AI-enabled attackers targeting cyber-physical systems (cooling, power, BMS) and leveraging OT/IoT, non‑human identities, and third‑party vendor access to cause operational denial. It recommends a holistic exposure-management approach—combining granular asset discovery, attack-path visualization, identity and privilege monitoring, micro-segmentation, vendor risk controls, and compliance-focused continuous monitoring—to reduce risk without compromising uptime.