Cisco Foundation AI debuts agentic security tools to protect autonomous AI systems – SiliconANGLE

Cisco Foundation AI debuts agentic security tools to protect autonomous AI systems – SiliconANGLE

By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-01-30 00:15:00

Cisco Foundation AI, Cisco System Inc.’s research and engineering group focused on building foundational artificial intelligence technologies, today announced a suite of new agentic security tools.

They’re designed to help enterprises secure AI systems as they become more autonomous, interconnected and embedded across business operations. The new releases are focused on allowing AI systems to reason through complex security problems, retrieve evidence dynamically from fragmented data sources, and execute security workflows while maintaining transparency and human oversight.

Security teams are grappling with the challenge of protecting AI-driven environments that increasingly span cloud platforms, internal systems and external data sources. The Cisco Foundation AI team argues that traditional security approaches struggle to keep up with the speed and complexity of modern AI workflows, particularly as agentic AI systems begin to make decisions and take actions on their…