Cisco Reimagines Security for the Agentic Workforce

With end-to-end security across AI actions, Cisco is helping organizations confidently deploy AI agents at scale

News Summary:

• Cisco extends Zero Trust Access to agents with agent discovery in Cisco Identity Intelligence, agentic Identity and Access Management (IAM) in Duo, and model context protocol (MCP) policy enforcement and adaptive risk protection in Secure Access security service edge (SSE).

• AI Defense: Explorer Edition democratizes AI safety and security by providing developers with self-serve tools to test model and application resilience against attacks and embed robust guardrails into agents before they are deployed.

• Cisco introduces DefenseClaw, an open source secure agent framework that automates security and inventory, with plans to integrate with NVIDIA OpenShell as the sandbox to eliminate manual steps and accelerate secure agent deployment.

• New Splunk AI innovations transform security operations by automating response workflows, enabling teams to outpace…