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Cisco Live 2026: AI Defense Upgrades with Policy Studio, Adaptive Red Teaming, Agent Supply Chain Security
At Cisco Live 2026, Cisco unveiled AI Defense upgrades: adaptive red teaming, Policy Studio for natural language policy, and agent supply chain security with CI/CD integration. It also launched AgenticOps autonomous network operations and native integrations with Amazon Bedrock, Google ADK, LangChain, aiming to secure multi-framework agent environments.
Palo Alto Networks Idira: Democratizing Privilege Control, AI Agent Identity as New Control Plane
Palo Alto Networks launches Idira, an identity security platform built on CyberArk PAM, extending privileged access control to every human, machine, and AI agent identity. Core features include Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP), JIT permissions, and an AI engine for automatically discovering hidden entitlements and recommending least privilege. Idira becomes PANW's third core platform alongside Strata and Cortex.
Cisco Acquires Astrix Security to Strengthen Non-Human Identity and AI Agent Security Control Plane
Cisco announces its intent to acquire Astrix Security, a Non-Human Identity (NHI) security specialist. The goal is to integrate AI agent and credential (API keys, service accounts) security management deeply into Cisco's Identity Intelligence platform and Zero Trust Access solutions. This move signals a shift in the security control plane from traditional human-machine interactions towards securing automated AI agent workloads, addressing the new attack surface created by AI agents abusing credentials.
Cisco to Acquire Astrix Security for $350M
Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli AI Agent security startup Astrix Security for $250-350M, expanding into non-human identity security. This is Cisco's second AI security acquisition in 2026.
Cisco Acquires Astrix Security to Strengthen AI Agent Security
Cisco is acquiring AI Agent security startup Astrix Security for $250-350 million, focusing on non-human identity security.