AI is rapidly reshaping enterprise environments, introducing a new class of network behavior that is more dynamic, context-driven, and unpredictable than anything traditional infrastructures were designed to handle. As organizations move from experimentation to real deployment, AI is no longer just a workload—it is becoming a foundational driver of data movement and system interaction.
This shift is forcing enterprises to rethink how they approach performance, visibility, and control across their digital ecosystems, particularly as AI-related traffic continues to grow and strain existing architectures.
About this episode
A10 Networks and NOVIPRO discuss the structural changes brought by AI adoption across modern infrastructures, drawing parallels with previous technological shifts such as the rise of the internet and cloud computing. As AI-driven workloads expand, organizations are seeing a significant transformation in traffic patterns, governance requirements, and risk exposure.
The conversation explores how enterprises can adapt their networking and security strategies to account for AI-specific behaviors, including new forms of application traffic, emerging attack vectors, and the need for stronger control over data flows. It also highlights how purpose-built AI security solutions—such as AI-aware firewalls and infrastructure-level guardrails—are becoming essential to support this new environment.
LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE TO FIND OUT HOW TO:
Understand why AI traffic behaves fundamentally differently from traditional application traffic, demanding new approaches to routing, inspection, and control
Make your organization's networking and security explicitly AI-aware, with purpose-built tools designed for AI-native threat vectors
Leverage A10 Networks' foundational technologies in application delivery, security, and machine learning as an ideal base for AI workloads
Deploy a purpose-built AI firewall to enforce ingress and egress guardrails and counter threats like prompt injection, data exfiltration, and model abuse
AI is introducing a new layer of complexity to enterprise networks, with traffic patterns and risks that traditional security models were not designed to handle. As adoption accelerates, organizations must rethink how they secure and govern these environments in real time.
This shift is driving the need for AI-aware infrastructure and purpose-built security controls that can keep pace with the intelligent era.
Our expert:
Sheen Khoury, A10 Networks
Sheen Khoury is executive vice president of sales and marketing at A10 Networks. Khoury brings over 30 years of sales leadership experience, most recently serving as vice president, global software sales at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) which had acquired OpsRamp.
Our host:
Roger Ouellet, Director of Security Practice at NOVIPRO
Roger Ouellet is a Director of Security Practice at NOVIPRO. With over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, he supports customers as an analyst, advisor and architect for their infrastructures, data protection, communications, security, governance as well as business continuity plans.
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