AI Agents Need New Security: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire WideField Security
Cisco announces intent to acquire WideField Security, boosting Splunk's Agentic SOC with identity and session intelligence to secure AI agents at machine speed.
Scale. Speed. Trust: Three Imperatives for the AI Era
In the AI era, organizations need a new approach. At Cisco Live 2026, Cisco unveiled the innovation that positions Splunk as the intelligence layer for trusted Agentic Operations.
What We're Announcing at Cisco Live. And Why It Couldn't Wait.
Learn how new Cisco IQ innovations shed light into the dark spaces of your environment to ensure your operating and security models keep pace with machine-speed threats.
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Ten Years in the SOC at RSAC: What We Learned in 2026
Cisco Security and Splunk Security supported the SOC at RSAC 2026 Conference. Download the findings report for lessons learned from the 10th year of the SOC.
Embedded network security: The ultimate defense against AI-driven threats
Discover how embedded network security helps protect AI workloads, remote users, branches, and cloud apps without adding IT complexity.
Empowering Mission Success: Public Sector Highlights and Key Takeaways from Cisco Live US 2026
Explore Cisco Live US 2026 highlights to see how secure, AI-ready infrastructure is transforming the public sector industries. Catch up on expert-led sessions and real-world use cases on-demand.
Agents Securing Agents: The Agents Powering Policy Studio
At this year’s Cisco Live Las Vegas we introduced Policy Studio, an AI assistant in Cisco AI Defense that guides users through building custom policies for adaptive guardrails. The assistant interactively walks the user through the process..........
Driving Operational Excellence and Exceptional Experiences: Consumer and Industrial Highlights from Cisco Live US 2026
Explore Cisco Live US 2026 highlights to see how secure, AI-ready infrastructure is transforming manufacturing, retail, and financial services. Catch up on expert-led sessions and real-world use cases on-demand.
Protecting against rising cybersecurity risks in data centers
Secure your data center against evolving threats, including quantum computing and AI. Discover how resilient, quantum-safe infrastructure from Cisco provides real-time protection to keep your business running smoothly without downtime.
A Partner Maturity Model for Vulnerability Operations in the AI Era
Cisco’s Partner Maturity Model for Vulnerability Operations provides a five-level framework to help partners navigate AI-driven threats. Assess your security capabilities and align your services with your customers' evolving security needs.
Fundamentals of AI: Inside the transformer
The transformer, introduced in a 2017 paper with the now-famous title "Attention Is All You Need," is the engine behind every major language model you have heard of. GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral. All transformer-based models. Understanding...
Inherited Circuits, Learned Semantics: How Security Fine-Tuning Can Create Hidden Evasion Risk
Fine-tuning is a process that lets us steer a general-purpose large language model toward a specific task by training it on targeted examples. In cybersecurity, this is often useful for problems like classifying phishing emails, suspicious URLs....