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Zero Trust for Agents - PSOSEC-2344#

Cisco Live US 2026 (Las Vegas) digest Program Adjacent pick Las Vegas · 31 May – 4 June 2026

Abstract

Tsailing Merrem (Cisco), Prabhu Barathi (Cisco)

  • Why: Down-ranked from core: this is product-positioning for Cisco's Zero Trust portfolio applied to agents, and the more substantive agentic-identity coverage is in BRKSEC-2065 and BRKSEC-2067.
  • What: The argument that autonomous agents become the "ultimate insider" without fine-grained authorization, and how Cisco is extending its Zero Trust access architecture to enforce scope, access control, and data security for an agentic workforce (from abstract only).
  • How: Extends existing Zero Trust enforcement points (identity-aware proxy/access) to agent identities and their permitted actions rather than just access.
  • Where applicable: Cisco Zero Trust portfolio-specific; useful mainly as a readout of how a major vendor plans to operationalize agent authorization.