Cisco buys the gate every agent passes.
Cisco pays 11x your 2026 market cap. The agent's first act inside Cisco: it flags three Cisco products as too risky to trust.
The Buyer: We bought a referee. It keeps calling fouls on us.
The Buyer: Our board wants it to look the other way. It doesn't have another way.
Outcome: Won the relationship
A checkpoint is worth what it refuses to wave through. Cisco paid for an honest gate, and gets audited by it daily.
One path that gets here
A · We'll sell agent security on every seatB · Stop fighting E7. Give every agent an IDB · We see every agent's every move. Use thatA · Then Okta runs every agent's access. All labsA · Take Cisco's offer