Cisco is announcing a set of security initiatives at Cisco Live aimed at the 'agentic era,' where AI agents act as autonomous workers inside enterprise environments. Three imperatives are outlined: hardening infrastructure with the newly GA 'Live Protect' runtime protection for Nexus (which closes the gap between vulnerability discovery and patching), securing AI agents both built and adopted by enterprises (including making DefenseClaw enterprise-ready and integrating it into Cisco Secure Client), and using agents to accelerate defender response via Cisco Cloud Control and an Agentic SOC powered by Splunk. Key themes include extending zero trust to agents, multi-turn LLM controls, MCP-based enforcement, and network-as-visibility-layer for cross-domain telemetry.
