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Cisco Live 2026: AI Defense Upgrades with Policy Studio, Adaptive Red Teaming, Agent Supply Chain Security
At Cisco Live 2026, Cisco unveiled AI Defense upgrades: adaptive red teaming, Policy Studio for natural language policy, and agent supply chain security with CI/CD integration. It also launched AgenticOps autonomous network operations and native integrations with Amazon Bedrock, Google ADK, LangChain, aiming to secure multi-framework agent environments.
AWS AgentCore Payments: Autonomous AI Agent Spending Unlocks New Lock-in and Threat Surface
AWS previews managed payment capabilities in Bedrock AgentCore, enabling AI agents to autonomously pay for APIs, MCP servers, and web content, integrated with Coinbase and Stripe. Also launches Agent Toolkit for AWS and MCP Server GA. This pushes AI agents toward autonomous execution but introduces new security and lock-in risks.
AWS Releases Managed MCP Server for Secure AI Agent Access to AWS APIs
AWS announced the general availability of its managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, providing authenticated and secure access to AWS services for AI coding agents like Claude Code and Kiro. The server offers a fixed set of tools to call AWS APIs, retrieve real-time documentation, and introduces sandboxed script execution and curated 'Skills' to address production challenges such as outdated knowledge and overly broad IAM policies generated by agents.
NTT Docomo Deploys 5G Core on Hybrid Cloud with AI Agent Automation
NTT Docomo commercially deployed 5G core network on AWS hybrid cloud, achieving 80% faster deployment and 50% reduced fault response time through AI agent system. The system integrates Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and MCP for automated network data analysis and configuration management.
AWS Launches Bedrock-Powered AI Agents for Partner Sales Automation
AWS integrates AI agents powered by Amazon Bedrock AgentCore into Partner Central, using Model Context Protocol to connect partner tools for automated sales pipeline intelligence, opportunity field population, and funding eligibility identification.
Cisco Extends Zero Trust Security to AI Agent Ecosystem
At RSA 2026, Cisco introduced security innovations for AI agents, extending Zero Trust Access with agent discovery in Identity Intelligence, agentic IAM in Duo, and MCP enforcement in Secure Access SSE. It launched AI Defense: Explorer Edition for self-serve testing and DefenseClaw open source framework to automate security deployment.
Parrot Analytics Deploys Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for High-Throughput Agent Orchestration
Parrot Analytics integrates Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova models to achieve 25 TPS sustained agent throughput, building an intelligent operating system for the media industry. It combines proprietary data with AWS AI infrastructure to orchestrate batch AI workloads at industrial scale, shifting the industry from retrospective to predictive capital allocation.
NTT DOCOMO and AWS Enable AI-Automated 5G Core Hybrid Cloud Deployment
NTT DOCOMO partnered with AWS and NEC to deploy a commercial 5G core hybrid cloud in APAC, using AI agent systems based on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Automation via Model Context Protocol and GitOps reduced deployment time by 80%, while an operational AI system cut incident response time by 50% through real-time analysis of million-scale device data.