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Cisco wants its meeting software to stop waiting for you. At WebexOne 2026 in Austin, Texas, the company announced it is embedding Anthropic's Claude inside Webex as working agents you can tag mid-call to do real work — and, in the move Microsoft and Zoom should read twice, its meeting-room hardware will now run their software natively as well. The centrepiece is Claude Managed Agents: agents you @mention inside a Webex space, meeting or call that execute multi-step work across Webex and third-party applications. Cisco's demo example is deliciously specific — a team member @mentions an analytics agent in a Webex space to pull usage statistics, then asks a presentation agent to drop those numbers into a PowerPoint deck. On the call. Live. Nobody touches the file. If that sounds like a small thing, it isn't. For two years, workplace AI has meant chatbots that summarise the transcript after everyone has hung up. Cisco is trying to put the agent in the room — or rather, in...

Update, Sept. 18 Update, Sept. 18: New reporting since publication sharpens the urgency: SC Media (Sept 17) quotes Black Duck threat-intelligence manager Robert Coles calling CVE-2026-76460 "a potential gateway to broader compromise" and urging teams to "patch quickly and look for signs that attackers have already been inside," while Black Hills Information Security's John Strand advises taking ISE off the open internet and warns the flaw could "escalate to a ransomware case." Separately, CISA's Sept 16 KEV alert confirms the three-day federal deadline and notes the flaw sits alongside the agency's new BOD 26-04 risk-based remediation framework, which now requires agencies to check whether threat actors compromised the system BEFORE the patch went on. Network administrators across the United States barely had time to finish patching Cisco's email gateways before the company dropped a second bombshell: a second actively exploited zero-da...