Duo Agentic Identity Announced at RSAC

Excited to have been involved in the Duo/Secure access team that has been building Model Context Protocol (MCP) capabilities into our Cisco products! This is a key step in Cisco's path to securing the AI world we are rapidly moving into. https://lnkd.in/gG-8JpME

The rise of agentic AI is introducing an entirely new layer of MCP-related risks. As autonomous agents become more embedded in workflows, managing identity, access, and trust will become significantly more complex. Solutions like Duo Agentic Identity won’t just be helpful - they’ll become as essential and seamless as firewalls and MFA are today. We’re entering a phase where securing not just users, but intelligent agents, is critical.

Big news coming out of #RSAC this week! Cisco is officially launching Duo Agentic Identity, a major step forward in the Cisco Zero Trust for Agents architecture. As we see more organizations experimenting with Agentic AI, the question I hear most from my customers is: 'How do we innovate without creating massive security gaps?' Kudos to Matt Caulfield and the entire Cisco R&D team for leading the way in securing the future of work #CiscoSecurity #DuoSecurity #Cisco #ZeroTrust #AISecurity #AgenticAI #RSAC2026

🤖 “AI agents aren't just making existing work faster; they're a new workforce of co-workers that dramatically expand what organizations can accomplish,” —Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco. 🫵🏽Are you ready to reimagine #Security for the Agentic Workforce? 💡Informative summary by Matt Caulfield, VP of Identity, Cisco of today’s #RSAC announcement highlighting Cisco’s extension of Zero Trust Access to agents and agentic AI deployment at scale. 📣#Duo is so much more than MFA, people!! Do the disco with Cisco Duo! 🪩 Newsroom🔗 https://lnkd.in/gef4JXxS #WeAreCisco.:|:.:|:.#InfluenceAndInnovate Duo Security #IdentityIsTheOnlyVector #MondayMadness

Agentic AI is not just a developer problem. It is a security problem your CISO needs a framework for - now. Cisco used RSA Conference 2026 to make a specific argument: the traditional perimeter model does not hold when AI agents can act autonomously across systems, APIs, and data stores. The question for CIOs is not whether agentic AI introduces risk. It does. The question is whether your security architecture was built with that assumption or is being retrofitted after the fact. In this note, I examine what Cisco actually announced at RSAC 2026, what it signals about their security roadmap, and the viability question technology leaders should be asking before committing to this platform direction. Read the full research note on SoftwareReviews: https://lnkd.in/e5MWzg5p If you are evaluating your security stack ahead of an agentic AI rollout, this is worth 10 minutes of your time. #CIO #CISO #AgenticAI #CyberSecurity #EnterpriseAI #Cisco #RSAC2026 #AIRisk #TechStrategy Thanks Grace Chung Joely Urton

🔐 Cisco just put a 'Claw' on AI agent security — and it couldn't come soon enough. At RSA Conference 2026, Cisco unveiled DefenseClaw — an open-source framework built specifically for securing agentic AI in production. It ships with four tools that cover the pipeline end to end: an MCP Scanner that checks MCP servers for malicious actions before they go live, a Skills Scanner that sandboxes agent capabilities, an AI Bill of Materials that auto-inventories every AI asset in your environment, and CodeGuard for code-level protection. The whole thing hooks into NVIDIA's OpenShell for runtime enforcement, and Cisco is extending Zero Trust all the way to agents — agentic IAM in Duo, MCP policy enforcement in Secure Access SSE, and agent discovery in Cisco Identity Intelligence. The timing makes sense when you look at the numbers. MCP just crossed 97 million monthly downloads. Security researchers scanning ~2,000 publicly accessible MCP servers found that all of them lacked authentication — every single one. There's already been at least one real breach: the Postmark incident, where one malicious npm package blind-copied every email flowing through compromised MCP servers. When a protocol goes from side project to foundational infrastructure in 16 months, security tooling has to sprint to catch up. DefenseClaw being open source is the right call — this can't be a vendor moat problem, it needs to be a community-solved one. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eB-QBcpr #AI #AIAgents #MCP #Security #DevSecOps #ZeroTrust #Cisco #RSA2026 #PlatformEngineering #Infrastructure #OpenSource #AgenticAI #ArtificialIntelligence

At Cisco Live EMEA 2026, the SOC team focused on a simple mission: Protect. Detect. Educate. Innovate. One key innovation was bridging Cisco XDR with Splunk Enterprise Security to streamline SOC escalations, automatically transferring incidents, observables, analyst notes, and AI summaries between platforms. The result: less manual pivoting, better collaboration across analyst tiers, and faster investigations. Read more to see how SOC workflows can be simplified with automation and integration: https://cs.co/6041B6wWDJ #CiscoSecurity #CiscoLive #XDR #Splunk

At Cisco Live EMEA 2026, the SOC team focused on a simple mission: Protect. Detect. Educate. Innovate. One key innovation was bridging Cisco XDR with Splunk Enterprise Security to streamline SOC escalations, automatically transferring incidents, observables, analyst notes, and AI summaries between platforms. The result: less manual pivoting, better collaboration across analyst tiers, and faster investigations. Read more to see how SOC workflows can be simplified with automation and integration: https://cs.co/6043B6whuH #CiscoSecurity #CiscoLive #XDR #Splunk

At Cisco Live EMEA 2026, the SOC team focused on a simple mission: Protect. Detect. Educate. Innovate. One key innovation was bridging Cisco XDR with Splunk Enterprise Security to streamline SOC escalations, automatically transferring incidents, observables, analyst notes, and AI summaries between platforms. The result: less manual pivoting, better collaboration across analyst tiers, and faster investigations. Read more to see how SOC workflows can be simplified with automation and integration: https://cs.co/6047B6woM3 #CiscoSecurity #CiscoLive #XDR #Splunk

SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced significant security innovations designed for the agentic AI ecosystem, where software no longer just answers questions—it acts. At RSA Conference 2026, Cisco is introducing solutions to address AI security issues and remove a top barrier to agent adoption. By establishing trusted identities, enforcing strict Zero Trust Access controls, hardening agents before deployment, enforcing guardrails at runtime, and giving security operations center (SOC) teams the tools to stop threats at machine speed, Cisco is building security into the foundation of the emerging AI economy. https://lnkd.in/eubyE8Rj