Cisco just made two moves to own the AI infrastructure stack

In a world of autonomous agents, identity and access become the de facto safety rails. Astrix is designed to inventory these non-human identities, map their permissions, detect toxic combinations, and remediate overprivileged access before it becomes an exploit or a data leak. That capability integrates directly with Cisco’s broader zero-trust and identity-centric security strategy, in which the network enforces policy based on who or what the entity is, not on which subnet it resides in.

How this strengthens Cisco’s secure networking story

Cisco has positioned itself as the vendor that can deliver “AI-ready, secure networks” spanning campus, data center, cloud, and edge. Galileo and Astrix extend that narrative from infrastructure into AI behavior and identity governance:

• The network becomes the high‑performance, policy‑enforcing substrate for AI traffic and data.
• Splunk plus Galileo becomes the observability plane for AI agents, linking AI incidents…