Kilter Brings Balance and Control to Agentic NetOps

Keeping up with network infrastructure demands is hard with AI's rapid growth. Hackers now exploit vulnerabilities in days, and thousands of CVEs are added each month — over 48,000 just last year, a 20% increase from 2024 — making manual management difficult, expensive, and often overlooked, exposing organizations to risk.

Additionally, the introduction of Mythos and its ability to autonomously find vulnerabilities and chain them into working exploits has evolved the role of network admins. Speed is the new risk, forcing them to shift from manual work to AI-enabled intelligence that feeds automated, “machine-speed” responses. The organization’s ability to anticipate, detect, respond to, and recover from vulnerabilities while maintaining business continuity requires shifting from only focusing on prevention to embracing a cyber resilience approach, as it’s not a matter of if a successful attack will occur, but when. Cyber resilience aims to boost an organization’s capacity to withstand and adapt to changing circumstances.

This is where NetOps teams should utilize network automation and AI for tasks such as backup and recovery, configuration checks, vulnerability intelligence, OS updates, and more across different device types from various manufacturers.

Network automation provides numerous benefits, including enhancing business continuity, saving time, increasing efficiency, and delivering cost savings. It also ensures compliance with regulations, improves incident response and recovery, and enables proactive vulnerability management.

Reduced downtime incidents: Automation enforces consistency, ensures that validated scripts are used for configurations, and helps in quick error detection and correction, reducing downtime and supporting business continuity.

Lower labor costs: Automating routine tasks such as device provisioning, software updates, and configuration changes saves significant time, reducing hours to minutes. This enables leaner teams and allows experts to concentrate on higher-value tasks.

Faster time to value: Automating the collection of network device details and using task automation to align configuration policies for efficient onboarding and smooth system operations.

Enhanced visibility: Automation transforms complex and unclear operations into clear, repeatable, actionable insights, offering a “single source of truth” for smarter decisions, increased efficiency, and reduced costs.

Improved security posture: Leveraging automation for cyber resilience strengthens an organization’s overall security posture by proactively addressing vulnerabilities and implementing robust security measures.

Organizations seeking to ensure the resilience of their network infrastructure, boost productivity, and maintain business continuity amid evolving threats can leverage network automation capabilities. By modernizing network operations with AI-powered capabilities in Kilter, NetOps teams improve the security and compliance of network devices through reliable insights, recommendations, and automation creation. This enables them to build a more resilient network infrastructure that saves time, boosts efficiency, and reduces costs.