Cisco unveiled its integrated operations platform, 'Cisco Cloud Control', and a suite of security products to match the spread of AI agents inside companies, it said on June 2 local time.

Cisco announced 'Cisco Cloud Control' at its 'Cisco Live' event in Las Vegas, combining network, security, observability, infrastructure and collaboration management into a single operating environment.

According to the company, AI agents, unlike existing chatbots, run constantly, interact with other agents and can directly access corporate systems. This has left companies facing infrastructure limits, a lack of trust in autonomous systems and rising volumes of telemetry data created by AI operations.

Cisco Cloud Control provides a single management environment for human administrators and AI agents. It supports single sign-on access to networks, security, computing, observability, collaboration platforms and 'Cisco Data Fabric', an integrated data layer based on Splunk's log data analytics platform.

The company explained that the platform underpins 'AgenticOps', which shifts manual IT and security operations to autonomous agent orchestration under human oversight.

Under AgenticOps, AI agents can identify incidents, analyze root causes and then recommend or apply fixes. They test changes in a digital twin of the customer environment and validate results under policy controls and human oversight.

Cisco also introduced 'Cloud Control Studio' to help companies build their own AI-based workflows.

It is also offering 'Cisco AI Canvas', a collaborative space where operators and AI agents share the same operational context and telemetry to investigate and resolve issues.

In security, Cisco unveiled 'Live Protect'. The function applies security controls directly to running infrastructure without software upgrades, maintenance windows or system reboots. It will be provided first on Nexus 9000 switches and expanded to other Cisco products.

Cisco also strengthened security features for AI agents. 'DefenseClaw' is a security and governance framework for local AI agents such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code and OpenClaw. It checks vulnerabilities and applies access controls, and supports monitoring and governance by linking with Cisco AI Defense and Splunk. Cisco also released an expanded zero-trust function that more finely controls AI agent behavior and accessed resources, and 'Agentic SOC' to automate security operations center tasks. The company said this can cut incident response times from hours or days to minutes.

Splunk has emerged as a core pillar in Cisco's security strategy. Cisco added federated search, a machine data lake and an AI toolkit, and strengthened observability features that monitor agent behavior, performance, safety and costs in AI environments. It said it will support quantum-safe communications across much of its core portfolio by the end of 2026.