By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-03-23 21:24:00
Cisco Systems Inc. is rolling out a set of new features designed to help companies secure their artificial intelligence agents.
The product enhancements made their debut today at the RSAC 2026 Conference. The networking giant also released an open-source tool, DefenseClaw, that can scan AI agents for vulnerabilities.
The first batch of new features will help customers regulate how their AI agents interact with tools such as MCP servers. The capabilities, some of which are still in development, will be reportedly be rolled out to several different Cisco products. One of those products is Duo IAM, a tool for managing user access to business applications.
The product enhancements will make it possible to register AI agents in Duo IAM along with information on which employees use them. Once an agent is registered, administrators can define rules that specify which tools it may access. Furthermore, they can regulate how an agent may interact with each tool. For example, a user…
