• Cisco attended RSA Conference 2026, where it announced security updates focused on AI agents.
• The company said it is extending Zero Trust Access to AI agents through agent discovery in Cisco Identity Intelligence and agentic identity and access management in Duo.
• Cisco also introduced AI Defense: Explorer Edition, a self-service tool for testing AI models and applications before deployment.
• The company announced DefenseClaw, an open source secure agent framework, and said it plans to integrate it with NVIDIA OpenShell.
• Cisco said 85% of surveyed major enterprise customers reported experimenting with AI agents, while 5% had moved agentic technology into production.

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