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Cisco says DefenseClaw is the oversight that's been missing in agentic AI.
DefenseClaw will automatically block some agentic operations.
Cisco enters a crowded field of security firms offering agentic oversight.
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.
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