By Industry News
Publication Date: 2026-03-24 09:06:00
Cisco has introduced solutions to address AI security issues and remove a top barrier to agent adoption. By establishing trusted identities, enforcing strict zero trust Access controls, hardening agents before deployment, enforcing guardrails at runtime, and giving SOC teams the tools to stop threats at machine speed, Cisco is building security into the foundation of the emerging AI economy.
“AI agents aren’t just making existing work faster; they’re a new workforce of co-workers that dramatically expand what organizations can accomplish,” said Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco. “Projects shelved for lack of resources are now within reach. The only limit is imagination, and security teams are the key to unlocking this opportunity by making the agentic workforce safe enough to trust.”
In a recent Cisco survey of major enterprise customers, 85% reported experimenting with AI agents, but just 5% had moved agentic technology into…
