Cisco and Galileo have worked together in the past. A year ago, Cisco announced a consortium called AGNTCY that it launched in partnership with Galileo for its security and observability capabilities and LangChain for its agent orchestration technology. AGNTCY plans to define specifications and reference implementations for an open-source architecture that tackles the requirements for building a trustworthy AI ecosystem across diverse environments.
Cisco has gone all-in on protecting enterprise customers from an onslaught of AI agents and the security problems they may present. Last month at RSAC 2026, it announced a variety of products to handle AI security issues. Cisco’s Duo Agentic Identity package, for example, is aimed at helping enterprises discover, identify and monitor AI agents and make sure they are accessing only needed resources. Cisco also said it would expand the role of its AI Defense platform for agentic AI protections.
“We have this opportunity to be a trust layer, not just for … network activity, but actually what’s happening at the application layer, at the workload layer, between agents, between workloads, between data,” Peter Bailey, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s security business, told Network World last month. “Cisco has long offered that trust layer, having trust anchors and trust boundaries and other technologies, so we’re really extending that into the world of agents and workloads.”
