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Security for the agentic era. Open by design. AI by default.

Redefine security for a new era of agents, AI, and innovation with an open, network-native platform purpose-built to enable and secure the agentic enterprise at scale.

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Secure the agentic enterprise at scale

Protect the world from agents

Establish trust and accountability before agents go to work.​

Protect agents from the world

Safeguard the agentic workforce against adversarial attacks and data leakage.​

Empower the agentic SOC

Detect and respond at machine speed to stay ahead of advanced attackers. ​

Latest security innovations

Hybrid Mesh Firewall

Apply distributed, optimized enforcement with unified management across your hybrid enterprise.

Cisco AI Defense

Safeguard the development and usage of AI applications so your enterprise can advance its AI initiatives with confidence.

Zero trust for agentic AI

Integrate identity, access, and behavioral controls to govern your agentic AI workforce and reduce risk.​

Agentic SOC

Unlock full-fidelity visibility and address threats at machine speed with an AI-powered SecOps platform.

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Reimagining security for the agentic workforce

At RSAC 2026, Cisco's President and Chief Product Officer, Jeetu Patel, challenged the industry to fundamentally reimagine security. In an agentic era, AI agents will act as autonomous coworkers. This comes with incredible risk and reward, and to do it right we must protect agents from the world, protect the world from agents, and detect and respond at machine speed. To help organizations adapt, Jeetu announced a suite of open-source tools including DefenseClaw.

Dive deeper into Cisco's open-source commitment and the new security model for the agentic era in Jeetu's blog.

Featured products and solutions

Identity security

Cisco Duo

Secure your applications and enable frictionless access with MFA to establish user and device trust.

Network security

Cisco Firewalls

Protect your organization using actionable insights across networks, clouds, endpoints, and email.

Cloud security

Cisco Hypershield

Use the power of hyperscaler technology to defend modern, AI-scale data centers and cloud.

Identity security

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Simplify highly secure network access control with software-defined access and automation.

User security

Cisco Secure Access (SSE)

Use a converged cybersecurity solution, grounded in zero trust, to cut risk and safely connect anything to anywhere.

Breach security

Cisco XDR

Detect the most sophisticated threats sooner across all vectors and prioritize by impact for faster responses.

Rethink security with integrated suites

Cisco User Protection Suite

Get secure access to any application, on any device, from anywhere. Defend against threats targeting users and deliver seamless access for hybrid work.

Cisco Cloud Protection Suite

Secure your applications and data with a powerful, flexible framework for a hybrid and multicloud world.

Cisco Breach Protection Suite

Protect your business by investigating, prioritizing, and resolving incidents through unified defense and contextual insights from data-backed, AI-powered security.

Cisco Security trials and offers

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Jeetu Patel, Cisco President and Chief Product Officer

Time for a new security model? Catch our RSAC™ 2026 keynote

Reimagining security for the agentic workforce
Monday, March 23 | 4:15–4:35 p.m. PT

AI agents are transforming the threat landscape at machine speed. Jeetu Patel, Cisco President and Chief Product Officer, explores how we must rethink trust and accountability in the agentic era. To help organizations secure this new landscape, Jeetu announced a suite of new open-source security products, reinforcing Cisco’s belief that security is a team sport, and that collaborative innovation is essential to outpace adversaries.