I Run OpenClaw at Home. That’s Exactly Why We Built DefenseClaw.

Cisco's VP shares his personal experience running OpenClaw (a fictional open-source personal AI agent) at home, then announces DefenseClaw — an open-source governance layer built on top of NVIDIA's OpenShell sandbox. DefenseClaw addresses real security incidents that plagued OpenClaw's rapid growth, including a critical RCE vulnerability, 135,000+ exposed instances, and a supply chain attack (ClawHavoc) that poisoned 20% of the skill registry. DefenseClaw provides three core capabilities: pre-installation scanning of all skills/tools/plugins using five integrated scanners, runtime threat detection via content inspection at the agent execution loop, and hard-enforcement block/allow lists with sub-2-second revocation. All telemetry streams into Splunk out of the box, making every agent action observable from day one. The project launches March 27, 2026 on GitHub.