VMware’s cybersecurity innovation roared at VMware Explore 2026 with the launch of AgentMinder, which serves as the central control plane for autonomous AI agents, as well as VMware boosting its agentic AI security with new features for vDefend and Avi Load Balancer.
“AgentMinder is really important and a great approach from both a governing agent’s perspective and with the concept of zero trust,” said Justin Giardina, chief technology officer at 11:11 Systems, one of VMware’s top partners.