Monday Morning Impact – October 12

NetBox Labs has announced a strategic partnership with Presidio, combining the NetBox Labs infrastructure intelligence platform as the foundation of Presidio’s Modern Networks practice targeting global enterprises across industries such as financial services, healthcare, and entertainment.

The platform discovers, models, governs and operationalizes infrastructure data across the organization. Available as a SaaS or self-managed offering, the platform provides a foundation for infrastructure modeling, automation, and operational governance. The recently launched infrastructure intelligence platform lets teams model their intent, see what’s deployed and how it’s changing, act through AI-accelerated automation, and govern every change with guardrails for humans and AI agents – spanning discovery, assurance, analytics, and open APIs that support integration across complex customer environments.

Presidio comes to the table with its consulting, implementation, integration, automation, and managed services expertise to deliver transformation initiatives built on that foundation.

“By incorporating NetBox Labs into our Networking solutions, we give customers a consistent, enterprise-grade foundation for automation and modernization,” said Brian Wisler, Vice President, Presidio Modern Networks. “This helps them move beyond point solutions toward a platform-driven approach, even in complex environments.”

“Presidio’s leadership in enterprise networking and infrastructure modernization makes them an ideal partner,” said Bill Lapcevic, Chief Revenue Officer at NetBox.

The partnership is initially focused on customers across North America, aligned with Presidio’s established delivery capabilities, with opportunities to extend the collaboration into additional geographies as Presidio expands its global presence, including investments in Europe.

Channel Impact^®
The combination promises an infrastructure data foundation that accelerates automation, improves operational visibility, reduces risk, and supports large-scale modernization initiatives.

A cross-industry coalition has formed the “Blueprint Alliance” to advance a shared architecture for securing AI agents. Founding members include AWS, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Docker, Google Cloud, Lovable, Okta, Proofpoint, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Wiz, and Zscaler, which span a variety of industry sectors including identity, AI, data, applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other strategic industries interested in co-authoring an expanded blueprint for the secure agentic enterprise. Strategic advisors across industries, including GE Appliances and World Central Kitchen.

Founding Alliance members have aligned toward a shared set of principles for securing AI agents — treating every agent as a first-class identity, scoping access to the task rather than granting standing access, keeping delegation traceable, monitoring runtime behavior continuously, enabling containment that is instant and reversible, and ensuring governance adapts at the speed AI moves.

Guided by these principles, the Alliance evolved and expanded the blueprint for the secure agentic enterprise, first introduced in March, into an open, multi-vendor reference architecture. It provides organizations with a standardized way to address four core challenges: Where are my agents? What can they do? What are they doing? How do I respond?

Founding members are building and testing interoperability across open standards, including MCP, OCSF, SSF, and CAEP, helping ensure that a threat signal raised by one runtime monitor triggers real-time action across all connected control planes. They also intend to regularly publish joint interoperability results and reference integrations to serve as the connective tissue for a multi-vendor security ecosystem.

“The blueprint started because our customers needed a consistent architecture for securing agents, one that governs identity, access, and execution across the entire stack without shutting down the autonomy that makes agents useful,” said Steven Tamm, SVP of Ecosystem at Okta. “Getting there required founding members across the Blueprint Alliance to align on a shared approach rather than each vendor solving it alone.”

New Blueprint Alliance members will be added over time to further refine and evolve the blueprint reference architecture.

Channel Impact^®
As AI agents increasingly act on behalf of people across organizations, the industry needs a common approach to identity, governance and runtime protection.