Agentic artificial intelligence, the kind that will automatically watch your email or book your flights, has been an overnight sensation, capturing the imagination but also presenting massive security risks. A natural reaction by enterprise software vendors is to help the “good” agents and block the “bad” agents. And, so, on Monday, networking and security giant Cisco Systems unveiled DefenseClaw, a play on the name of the open-source OpenClaw agentic AI framework that shot to popularity in January. DefenseClaw is the “operational layer” for agentic security that has been missing, according to Cisco’s head of AI software, DJ Sampath. It is a tool for oversight that will “keep a claw governed,” he wrote in a blog post.

Full report : Cisco says the reason agentic AI has seen slow enterprise adoption is the lack of an orchestration layer to track what agents are doing.