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Kushagra Sharma

Kushagra Sharma is a Product Manager at Cisco working on AIOps products that help teams operate complex systems with intelligence and scale. He focuses on translating customer problems into practical, data-driven solutions at the intersection of AI, reliability, and software platforms. Passionate about clear thinking and strong product craft, Kushagra writes to share insights on technology, product strategy, and building systems that actually work in the real world.

Evaluating Agents for Manipulation, Deception and Adversarial Risk
Artificial Intelligence
10 Minute Read

Evaluating Agents for Manipulation, Deception and Adversarial Risk

How to evaluate AI agents for manipulation, deception and adversarial risk — where persuasion evals went, why prompt injection became the dominant threat, and what to measure.
Stop Budgeting for Tokens. Start Budgeting for Outcomes.
Artificial Intelligence
7 Minute Read

Stop Budgeting for Tokens. Start Budgeting for Outcomes.

AI budget decisions are moving toward consumption and outcome metrics.
Opportunity Zones, OBBBA, and the Case for Smarter Reporting
Industries
6 Minute Read

Opportunity Zones, OBBBA, and the Case for Smarter Reporting

Turn Opportunity Zone reporting into actionable insights.
From AI Assistance to Agentic Action: Advancing the SOC in Splunk Enterprise Security 8.6
Artificial Intelligence
8 Minute Read

From AI Assistance to Agentic Action: Advancing the SOC in Splunk Enterprise Security 8.6

Splunk Enterprise Security 8.6 adds Agentic SOC capabilities to help teams triage, investigate, build detections, automate response, and govern AI-assisted work.
What Is Eval Engineering?
Learn
9 Minute Read

What Is Eval Engineering?

Eval engineering is the emerging practice of building systems that proactively govern AI behavior at scale. Learn about the topic here.
Splunking the LLM Gateways. Search Head Meets Prompt Head
Artificial Intelligence
8 Minute Read

Splunking the LLM Gateways. Search Head Meets Prompt Head

Enhance AI observability and security with LLM Gateways.