Trust Becomes the Product: Five Takeaways from the Splunk .conf26 Keynotes
SilconANGLE, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
SiliconANGLE distills five takeaways from Splunk .conf26, where Cisco pitched trust as the agentic era's differentiator.
SiliconANGLE unpacks the Denver keynotes, where Cisco President Jeetu Patel framed autonomous agents as teammates and disclosed that agent token consumption overtook human consumption in February 2026 and is now five times higher.
The analysis argues security and observability are converging because a breach and a prompt-poisoned agent look alike in telemetry. Splunk's new Tokenomics tooling was demonstrated against a retail scenario where an unguarded shopping agent could burn $500,000 an hour at scale.
Splunk also pledged capacity up 10x with a flat bill, to end affordability-driven data sampling.