Cisco Systems has unveiled a new software suite called Cloud Control, designed to help businesses and governments build AI agents to defend their IT infrastructure against cyberattacks.
The move comes as cybersecurity threats increasingly involve swarms of AI agents deployed by human hackers. Cisco executives argue that traditional, human-scale defenses are no longer sufficient.
"You can no longer do things at human scale," said DJ Sampath, Cisco's senior vice president and general manager of AI software and platform. "It has to be machine scale, from an operational perspective."
To accelerate the creation of these defender agents, Cisco is launching an app-store-like marketplace for AI coding tools. The first offering will be OpenAI's Codex, embedded directly into Cloud Control. Cisco plans to take a cut of marketplace sales, though the exact fee is still being determined.
Cloud Control is available in North America as of Tuesday. The third-party marketplace is slated for the second half of 2026.