India, Aug. 8 -- Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing not only what runs across enterprise networks, but also how those networks need to be secured. AI data centres generate intensive east-west traffic between GPUs, while inference workloads and autonomous agents introduce machine identities and communication patterns that conventional security architectures were not necessarily designed to handle. At the same time, the performance demands of AI infrastructure leave little room for security controls that add latency.

David Hughes, SVP and GM - SASE and Security, HPE Networking, believes this is pushing networking and security closer together. In this interview with Voice&Data at the HPE Discover 2026 in Las Vegas, he discusses AI dat...