In the time it takes you to finish your morning coffee, a new vulnerability has likely been identified and weaponized. The digital battlefield isn’t just evolving; it is accelerating exponentially. The gap between a secure network and a compromised one is closing faster than ever.

I hear from you every day – caught between these two forces: fast-moving threats and outdated systems. You need solutions that deliver agile, machine-speed risk and exposure management now.

At Cisco Live US, Liz reaffirmed our commitment to help you meet these evolving risks. Today, I’m proud to share that Cisco Resilient Infrastructure Services is generally available. Quantum Ready Assessments, On Prem modalities, and Peer Benchmarking are also available, helping you take action against threat categories that are no longer theoretical.

A Structured Approach: Resilient Infrastructure Services

When we designed Cisco Resilient Infrastructure Services, we anticipated that in the frontier AI model era our customers would face unknown challenges. Our goal was to offer a structured approach to infrastructure hardening that would help you overcome current and future challenges at the velocity AI demands. Cisco Resilient Infrastructure Services is part of a strategic response by Cisco to this new era of cybersecurity, resting on three pillars:

• Rapid Exposure Assessment: AI-driven insights to quickly discover and prioritize vulnerabilities, so your team can focus on what matters most.
• Infrastructure Modernization: We help you systematically update your environment and harden your operational agility, guided by Zero Trust principles, a security approach that assumes no implicit trust and verifies every access.
• Continuous Defense: Ongoing protection that evolves with emerging threats, reducing operational friction.

Starting July 24th, Cisco Resilient Infrastructure Services is available through Cisco Support – Standard tier and above. For complex remediation and modernization projects, you can also leverage expert guidance though Professional Services engagements.

Cisco Resilient Infrastructure Services delivers on our customers’ most urgent need: architecting adaptive, structural infrastructure resilience across the technology lifecycle. Foundationally, this is made possible thanks to our philosophy of combining AI-powered insights with human expertise. Thousands of customers have already experienced this synergy through Cisco IQ. Now, you can also access:

• Digital Playbook in Cisco IQ: You can access a Resilient Infrastructure Playbook that simplifies identifying and prioritizing vulnerable devices, as well as performs device level OS upgrades for certain devices with more to come.
• Standard QuickStart: We introduced Standard QuickStart, an onboarding offer for anyone not using Standard Support today to get you started with the digital capabilities in Cisco IQ while you transition to Cisco Support – Standard. This accelerates access to capabilities to address today’s complex threat landscape.

Continuous Innovation for an Evolving Landscape

Cisco IQ delivers rapid innovation and new capabilities enabling our customers and partners to achieve continued agility and resilience.

Cisco IQ for air-gapped, on-premises deployments, is now in controlled availability. To ensure these resilience capabilities are accessible across all sectors, we are prioritizing uncompromising data governance. For organizations in highly regulated industries, we provide the absolute data sovereignty and local control required to innovate with confidence.

Quantum Ready Assessments identify the assets most exposed to “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks – and where to start. These assessments evaluate secure communications and secure platforms to determine crypto-agility at both the device and infrastructure levels. From this deep technical analysis, Cisco IQ generates a practical roadmap of recommended actions, enabling your resources to focus where they matter most to build a crypto-agile future.

Peer Benchmarking: Built on a foundation of strict data privacy, Peer Benchmarking allows you to benchmark your Last Day of Support (LDOS) risks, vulnerability exposure, and telemetry connectivity against industry peers. With granular filtering by vertical, market, and geography, we empower your organization to turn comparative insights into highly targeted, competitive investments

These assessments and insights are examples of ways that Cisco Support’s Standard tier is continuing to deliver insights to provide you with greater visibility, control, and security. Using Cisco IQ Link to collect your telemetry will unlock deeper, predictive insights that allow you to stay ahead of emerging threats and proactively optimize your infrastructure performance well into the future.

We have set a strong foundation. Our commitment to you is that we will continue to rapidly evolve our portfolio so you can prepare to out-pace the adversaries.

Our progress to put that innovation in your hands is being recognized too. I am proud to announce that Cisco CX has received four Gold Stevie Awards for our work on Cisco IQ, our Central Management Server, our Intelligent RMA experience, and our software development team. These accolades underscore our commitment to continued AI-driven innovation, and it is incredibly rewarding to see this recognition for the value we are delivering to our customers.

I invite you to explore these updates and engage with Cisco IQ. If you already have a Cisco Support contract, start with the Cisco IQ Getting Started Guide. If not, visit the Cisco Support page to learn how Cisco IQ can transform your infrastructure resilience.