{"slug": "cohere-offers-to-put-agents-in-lockdown-mode-with-strict-acls", "title": "Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs", "summary": "Cohere is offering a lockdown mode for AI agents that enforces strict access control lists, positioning the capability as an alternative to OpenClaw with built-in access control. The offering was detailed in an interview with The Register. The move matters because it gives teams deploying agents a way to constrain what those agents can reach.", "body_md": "### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n- \n#### Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLsLike OpenClaw but with access control\n- \nINTERVIEW #### Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI acceleratorsWho said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute?\n- \n#### Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack showsExploitation attempts came from China-hosted IP, VulnCheck researcher says\n- \n#### Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenterGrid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk\n- \n#### Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunchMeanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price\n\n### [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n- \nSecurity #### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n- \nSecurity #### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n- \nBlack Hat and DEF CON #### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n- \nSecurity #### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n- \nMalware Month #### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n### [FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n- \n#### Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-textGNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again\n- \n#### Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of careAll this, and angry NeoVim users\n- \n#### Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?*Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin\n- \n#### KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposalAkademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user\n- \n#### Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom lineAcquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'\n- \n#### Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cohere-offers-to-put-agents-in-lockdown-mode-with-strict-acls", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/05/cohere-offers-to-put-agents-in-lockdown-mode-with-strict-acls/5301219", "published_at": "2026-10-05 19:47:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-05 20:50:08.574200+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-safety", "ai-products", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Cohere", "OpenClaw", "The Register"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cohere-offers-to-put-agents-in-lockdown-mode-with-strict-acls", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cohere-offers-to-put-agents-in-lockdown-mode-with-strict-acls.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cohere-offers-to-put-agents-in-lockdown-mode-with-strict-acls.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cohere-offers-to-put-agents-in-lockdown-mode-with-strict-acls.jsonld"}}