The agentic workforce is here: Why Cisco just put a ‘Claw’ on AI security – SiliconANGLE

The agentic workforce is here: Why Cisco just put a ‘Claw’ on AI security – SiliconANGLE

By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-03-25 01:26:00

The RSAC cybersecurity conference is this week and for the last two years, the conversation at the event has revolved around generative artificial intelligence — that is, models we talk to, and they talked back and act as a copilot.

At RSAC 2026, there has been a definite change in topic as the world has been shifting from conversational AI to agentic AI. The world is moving from AI that answers questions to AI that takes actions — software that can browse the web, execute code, manage your calendar and interface with corporate databases.

The poster child for this movement is OpenClaw, the open-source agent framework that has taken the developer world by storm. But as Jeetu Patel, Cisco Systems Inc.‘s chief product officer, noted during his RSAC keynote, “in the enterprise, power without governance isn’t innovation; it’s unmanaged risk.”

To bridge this gap, Cisco Monday unveiled DefenseClaw, an open-source security framework designed to wrap these “Claws”…