By Anna Ribeiro
Publication Date: 2026-05-05 09:56:00
Cisco announced on Monday its intention to acquire Astrix Security to strengthen its push into securing AI-driven environments, particularly the growing risk surface created by non-human identities such as API keys, service accounts, and AI agents. The company plans to integrate Astrix’s capabilities into its security platform to provide discovery, governance, lifecycle management, and real-time threat detection for agentic identities, extending its Zero Trust architecture to what it describes as the ‘agentic workforce’ and enabling organizations to adopt AI at scale with greater visibility and control.
“We’re seeing an explosion of AI agents that are already reshaping the digital enterprise. Soon, every person in an organization will be supported by a network of AI agents working continuously at machine speed, accessing data, making decisions, and taking action on their behalf,” Peter Bailey, senior vice president and general manager for security at…
