Every day, it seems another vulnerability makes headlines. AI is accelerating the pace and sophistication of attacks, giving adversaries new ways to find and exploit weaknesses across critical infrastructure. Yet organizations are still struggling to keep up. The gap between identifying an exposure and fixing it is growing, and attackers aren’t waiting.

Verizon reports¹ that the median time to fully resolve vulnerabilities has increased to 43 days. That is two weeks longer than last year, and that’s simply too slow for the threat environment we now face.

Resilience isn’t only knowing where you’re vulnerable. It’s about having the intelligence, expertise, and ability to act before exposure becomes an incident.

That’s why customers are using Cisco Resilient Infrastructure Services. Powered by Cisco IQ, we help organizations continuously identify critical exposures, understand where attention is needed, and turn those insights into action. Through Cisco Partners and Cisco Professional Services, we bring the expertise; remediation capabilities; and modernization strategies needed to reduce risk at scale.

If you operate infrastructure, you need to know which devices are affected, what can be upgraded, what requires shielding, and who owns remediation. If you lead the business, you need confidence that mitigating exposure won’t disrupt operations. Knowing matters; but a practical route to fixing creates the value.

We have steadily expanded Cisco IQ’s role in infrastructure resilience: July introduced the resilience foundation within Cisco IQ; August extended it to air-gapped environments through a virtual appliance; and at October’s Partner Summit we expanded partner access and introduced APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling Cisco IQ insights to reach the teams and workflows that act on them. Here in Melbourne, we are connecting Cisco IQ infrastructure insights with the expertise and workflows you need for remediation, including Cisco Data Fabric powered by the Splunk platform.

Cisco Resilient Infrastructure Services delivers value with three key tenets:  Exposure Assessment,  Infrastructure Modernization, and Defense Resiliency.

1. Exposure Assessment

Fixing begins with understanding exposure. Cisco IQ now serves close to 17,000 customers across more than 22 million connected devices, unifying asset, coverage, lifecycle, and advisory data. The Resilient Infrastructure Services Playbook and assessments highlight where attention is needed, from Software End of Vulnerability Support (EoVS) and Priority Bugs to quantum readiness.

Cisco IQ Link plays an important role; it gathers essential telemetry from supported devices, including cryptographic data for quantum-readiness assessments. With that intelligence, exposure assessment happens faster. In fact, a Cisco-sponsored IDC study² found that Cisco IQ is able to determine which devices are affected by a security advisory 96 times faster than historical methods.

 2. Infrastructure Modernization

Cisco IQ helps discover exposure. Then, you need experts who can help choose and deliver the right remediation where and when it’s needed: Our partners and Cisco Professional Services teams.

The goal is structural resilience; infrastructure designed to withstand evolving threats and minimize their impact on your critical business services, with changes matched to your risk and operational constraints.

Our partners and Cisco experts can help:

• Assess your environment and replace infrastructure that cannot be securely updated.
• Protect you from exploit attempts during the transition and contain potential compromise.
• Apply Zero Trust throughout.

The benefits stack up: Cisco IQ informs priorities, we and our partners align remediation with your business needs, addressing immediate exposure while engineering your infrastructure to limit the impact of future threats. The value cannot be understated. Today, according to Forrester³ 46% of organizations face resilience, security, and recovery skill shortages. Cisco and our partners are how you bridge that gap.

3. Defense Resiliency

The next challenge is sustaining resilience despite change, with Cisco IQ intelligence, human expertise and tested methodologies.

At Cisco Live Melbourne, we are delivering a critical operational milestone by integrating Cisco IQ vulnerability intelligence directly into the Cisco Data Fabric powered by the Splunk platform. The API ingestion and detections we built in Enterprise Security bring exposure context into your security investigation and support agentic detections. However, we know that exposure is not proof of exploitation. So, we also connect Cisco IQ findings to asset-linked ServiceNow problem records, while MCP supplies context to your supported AI harnesses, helping your team coordinate remediation without rebuilding the evidence.

To preserve these defenses through change, Cisco Professional Services helps you eliminate the risks of manual, ad-hoc changes via Services as Code, with proven results. A recent Cisco-sponsored IDC study⁴ found 2.4x faster average network changes and a 93% average change success rate with Cisco Services as Code method.

In cases where suspicious activity requires deeper investigation, our partners and Cisco Talos experts help you draw on Talos threat intelligence, threat hunting and forensics to establish what happened and scope the containment and remediation needed.

For those implementing Agentic workflows, we can help you construct a governed Agentic SOC using tailored Security, Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) playbooks.

Lastly, we help you manage remediation and posture drift through hardening and containment.

Amorepacific uses Cisco IQ to reduce support tickets; reduce decision times; and boost productivity.

The Connected Path Forward

With Cisco IQ to understand your exposure, our partners and Cisco Professional Service teams to deliver remediation, and connected workflows to sustain resilience, you have a clear path to a resilient infrastructure.

Ready to Build Your Resilient Foundation?

Here is how you can get started today:

1. Establish Total Landscape Clarity: Activate your Cisco IQ account and deploy Cisco IQ Link to gain instant, continuous visibility across your entire installed base.
2. Expose and Prioritize Risk: Run the Resilient Infrastructure Services Playbook in Cisco IQ to pinpoint critical vulnerabilities, Last Day of Support (LDoS) hardware, and post-quantum readiness gaps before they become operational liabilities.
3. Execute Structural Modernization: Partner with Cisco Professional Services and certified Cisco partners to accelerate infrastructure modernization, automate change with Services as Code, and deploy continuous defense resiliency that turns security into your greatest business asset.

[1] Verizon’s 2026 DBIR executive summary

[2] IDC BV White Paper, sponsored by Cisco, The Business Value of Cisco IQ, #US54954826-BVS, October 2026

[3] IDC BV White Paper, sponsored by Cisco, The Business Value of Cisco Services as Code, doc #US54580526-BVWP, July 2026

[4] Closing the Resilience Gap study