--- title: Securing the Agentic Workforce: Cisco Announces Intent... description: Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Astrix Security, a specialist in Non-Human Identity (NHI) security. The acquisition aims to extend Cisco's Zero Trust... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/securing-the-agentic-workforce-cisco-announces-intent-to-acquire-astrix-security-tbxmwj6oy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Securing the Agentic Workforce: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Astrix Security | daily.dev og:description: Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Astrix Security, a specialist in Non-Human Identity (NHI) security. The acquisition aims to extend Cisco's Zero Trust... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/securing-the-agentic-workforce-cisco-announces-intent-to-acquire-astrix-security-tbxmwj6oy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tBXMWJ6oy.png og:image:alt: Securing the Agentic Workforce: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Astrix Security og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Securing the Agentic Workforce: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Astrix Security **[Cisco](https://daily.dev/sources/cisco)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Astrix Security, a specialist in Non-Human Identity (NHI) security. The acquisition aims to extend Cisco's Zero Trust architecture to cover AI agents and non-human identities such as API keys, OAuth tokens, and service accounts. Astrix Security's capabilities include discovery and governance for AI agents, agentic access lifecycle management, threat detection and response, and secrets management. Cisco plans to integrate these capabilities into Cisco Identity Intelligence, Cisco Secure Access, and Duo IAM, giving security teams unified visibility across identity, network, application, and infrastructure layers to govern and respond to agent activity at machine speed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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