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Jhulu Panath, Director of Product Management for Cisco's OutShift, and Cindy Chiu, Senior Product Manager for Duo Security, explained the challenges agents pose to IAM systems and the approaches to addressing them in a technical sharing session.
Cisco's management of Tokens is phased: first give employees loose Token access so everyone becomes familiar with it, then shift to a Token rationing system like a per-head quota—however many Tokens a team gets, it must deliver corresponding output.
Token consumption monitoring should be placed at the same monitoring level as system resilience and guardrail violations, and an Agent's economic behavior should be treated on par with its behavioral boundaries.
Patel mentioned that the next architectural question is how to increase Token output efficiency by 20% to 60% at the same cost.
The base model used by the Cisco team was Gemma 3.4b, which after three stages of prompt optimization, SFT, and GRPO reinforcement learning reached 96.13% end-to-end accuracy on their test set.
The Cisco team deployed 352 tools across 12 MCP servers for testing, covering diverse tool types and scenarios.
The solution proposed by the Cisco team is: before each tool call, use a small model to read the task description and the tool description and output a binary judgment of relevant or off-topic.
Research by the Cisco team verified that even when an AI Agent's permissions are completely correct, it may still choose tools unrelated to the task to perform operations.
The binary judgment framework in this study may not cover the large gray areas of 'partially relevant' and 'contextually relevant' cases in reality.
This study tested only one model family, Gemma 3.4b, and results may differ with a different model family.
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Research by SmartBear indicates that after reviewing more than 400 lines of code, a developer's defect detection rate drops sharply.
65%UnverifiedCisco的Webex Hologram也在探索沉浸式远程会议技术
80%UnverifiedCisco's management of Tokens is phased: first give employees loose Token access so everyone becomes familiar with it, then shift to a Token rationing system like a per-head quota—however many Tokens a team gets, it must deliver corresponding output.
50%UnverifiedToken consumption monitoring should be placed at the same monitoring level as system resilience and guardrail violations, and an Agent's economic behavior should be treated on par with its behavioral boundaries.
50%UnverifiedThe base model used by the Cisco team was Gemma 3.4b, which after three stages of prompt optimization, SFT, and GRPO reinforcement learning reached 96.13% end-to-end accuracy on their test set.
50%UnverifiedThe Cisco team deployed 352 tools across 12 MCP servers for testing, covering diverse tool types and scenarios.
50%UnverifiedThe solution proposed by the Cisco team is: before each tool call, use a small model to read the task description and the tool description and output a binary judgment of relevant or off-topic.
50%UnverifiedResearch by the Cisco team verified that even when an AI Agent's permissions are completely correct, it may still choose tools unrelated to the task to perform operations.
50%UnverifiedThe binary judgment framework in this study may not cover the large gray areas of 'partially relevant' and 'contextually relevant' cases in reality.
50%UnverifiedThis study tested only one model family, Gemma 3.4b, and results may differ with a different model family.
50%UnverifiedThe test tasks in this study are described as synthetic data, not derived from real user scenarios.
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50%UnverifiedAccording to research conducted by SmartBear at Cisco, when review speed exceeds 500 lines per hour, the defect detection rate drops sharply.
50%UnverifiedJhulu Panath, Director of Product Management for Cisco's OutShift, and Cindy Chiu, Senior Product Manager for Duo Security, explained the challenges agents pose to IAM systems and the approaches to addressing them in a technical sharing session.
50%UnverifiedPatel mentioned that the next architectural question is how to increase Token output efficiency by 20% to 60% at the same cost.
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