# Agents at the Edge: Extending AI Security Governance to Physical AI with DefenseClaw

DevFeed: [Agents at the Edge: Extending AI Security Governance to Physical AI with DefenseClaw](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/agents-at-the-edge-extending-ai-security-governance-to-physical-ai-with-defenseclaw-87011.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blogs.cisco.com/ai/agents-at-the-edge-extending-ai-security-governance-to-physical-ai-with-defenseclaw>)

Author: Nikhil Ghodki

Published: 2026-10-14T16:37:06Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Cisco Blogs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cisco-blogs.md>)

Topics: [Physical AI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/physical-ai.md>), [ai security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-security.md>), [Embedded Systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embedded-systems.md>), [prompt injection](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/prompt-injection.md>)

Tags: [agent-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent-security.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-security.md>), [artificial-intelligence-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence-ai.md>), [edge](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/edge.md>), [physical-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/physical-ai.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

Cisco's DefenseClaw Edge Connector brings AI agent security to constrained devices such as robots, drones, and embedded controllers. It makes local allow or block decisions, escalates unknown requests for deeper analysis, and denies actions when the main instance is unreachable. The article describes Raspberry Pi robot scenarios in which prompt injections and unauthorized physical actions are blocked before execution.

## Source excerpt

AI agents are moving beyond screens and servers into the physical world -- controlling robots, drones, factory equipment, and building systems. DefenseClaw now includes an Edge Connector that brings AI agent security to these constrained devices....