Cisco to Acquire Astrix Security to Secure AI Agents and Non-Human Identities

Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Astrix Security, a company focused on securing non-human identities such as API keys, service accounts, OAuth tokens, and other credentials used by applications, services, and AI agents. The acquisition will strengthen Cisco’s ability to help customers discover, govern and secure AI agents as they become more active inside enterprise environments.Astrix was founded five years ago and has built its platform around the identity and credential layer that connects modern systems. Cisco said credentials are now being used by AI agents to access data and execute work at scale. With AI agents starting to behave less like passive tools and more like active participants in enterprise workflows, they can now access systems, make decisions and take action, which makes identity, access and permission controls more important.Cisco plans to use Astrix to expand its work around agentic AI security and zero trust. Astrix’s capabilities include…