5 Steps To Secure Your Infrastructure In The Frontier Model Era
CIO, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Enterprises need resilient, security-first infrastructure as frontier models exploit vulnerabilities faster than humans can patch.
With over one billion AI agents expected by 2029, enterprise infrastructure must handle security threats at unprecedented speed.
Barry Baker argues AI is accelerating both innovation and risk, so infrastructure should be engineered for security from the ground up rather than retrofitted.
The five recommended steps are building on mission-critical infrastructure with multilayered security controls, treating uptime as a security requirement, operating with continuous vulnerability discovery, leveraging AI-driven threat detection, and joining industry coalitions addressing frontier model threats.
Traditional assumptions that vulnerabilities can be fully prevented are obsolete; systems should be designed to survive and respond rapidly.