Cisco Just Invested in Agent Identity Monitoring. Security Boulevard Says Your IAM Was Not Built for This.

Two things happened this week that signal where enterprise agent security is heading. First: WideField announced Cisco Investments in their Series A , extending their identity security platform to cover autonomous AI agents. Cisco — the company that owns your network stack — is now investing in agent identity monitoring. Second: Security Boulevard published a comprehensive guide to agentic AI risks in 2026 that reads like a catalog of problems we've been building against for months. The Six Risks Security Boulevard Maps Unmanaged agent identities — agents operating with over-permissioned credentials or no formal identity at all Privilege escalation — developers grant broad permissions "just in case," creating disproportionate blast radius Prompt injection — malicious instructions embedded in content agents process, executed without human review No auditability — when a chain of agents takes action, nobody can trace which agent did what, on whose behalf Agent-to-agent attacks — a compro