Agentic SRE: Safety and Security as First-Class Citizens
In traditional operations, security and reliability often find themselves at odds. The SRE team wants to ship features and maintain uptime; the security team wants to lock everything down, often slowing velocity. But in the world of Agentic SRE, this distinction is collapsing. Security is reliability. A breach is just a different kind of outage—one with potentially higher stakes. As we move into 2026, the mandate for SREs is expanding. It’s no longer enough to keep the site up; we must keep it safe. And just as we use agents to manage capacity and incidents, we must now deploy agents to manage safety and security. ...