WideField Security announced that Cisco Investments has joined its Series A funding round as the company unveiled new capabilities to monitor and secure autonomous AI agents. The announcement also includes the appointment of John Hurley, Chief Revenue Officer of Optiv, to WideField’s board.
The company is expanding its identity security platform to address a growing challenge as enterprises adopt AI driven automation. WideField’s technology now extends beyond human and traditional non human identities to include AI agents, which increasingly operate with broad permissions and limited oversight.
WideField’s platform is designed to secure the full identity lifecycle. At rest, it provides visibility into entitlements, privileges, and credentials. In motion, it monitors authentication events such as multi factor authentication and conditional access. In use, it analyzes active sessions to detect threats and monitor privileged access.
The company said traditional identity security tools have failed to prevent many recent breaches, as attackers exploit gaps after authentication using methods such as infostealers, attacker in the middle techniques, AI driven phishing, and stolen OAuth tokens. WideField aims to address these gaps by providing continuous monitoring and behavioral modeling across users, devices, and applications.
With the rise of AI agents, the company emphasized the importance of tracking non deterministic systems that operate autonomously and often without direct IT visibility. Its platform builds real time behavioral models to detect anomalies such as token misuse, impossible travel, unauthorized permissions, and data exfiltration.
WideField said its approach enables organizations to monitor both human and machine identities across the entire lifecycle, from credential provisioning to active usage, reducing risk while supporting continued innovation in AI adoption.
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“I’ve spent my career working with companies on their most pressing security challenges, and identity is consistently at the center of those that matter most. WideField’s unique combination of visibility, real-time session monitoring, and now coverage for AI agents helps address gaps that every CISO I talk to has identified as a priority within their security framework. I’m honored and excited to join the board.”
John Hurley, Chief Revenue Officer, Optiv
“The rise of AI agents is reshaping the evolution of identity security, requiring an approach that focuses on the full lifecycle of how identities are created, authenticated, and used. We are excited to invest in WideField. This investment reinforces Cisco’s commitment to building a unified Identity Intelligence layer that secures the rapidly expanding frontier of non-human and agentic AI identities across the entire security lifecycle.”
Janey Hoe, Vice President, Cisco Investments
“Authentication was never the finish line, but that’s where most tools stop. AI agents operate continuously, with broad permissions. We built WideField to close that gap and give security teams control over every identity lifecycle, human or machine, from the moment credentials are provisioned.”
Abhay Kulkarni, CEO, WideField
“The pace of AI tools and automation adoption is not slowing down. WideField gave us the confidence to keep moving forward, because we can see and monitor the identities, human and non-human, interacting with our environment.”
John McLeod, Chief Information Security Officer, NOV
