Artificial Intelligence - AI
Foundation AI in September: VLoc Bench and Cyber-Capability Safety
September was a benchmark month, focused on where cyber-capable AI should be strong, where it should fail, and how to measure the difference. Here’s what we shipped. VLoc Bench: Can Agents Find Vulnerable Code at Repository Scale? (blog, Sep 4)..
Jev: Decision Models on Trial
How does a question-answering architecture stack up against traditional classification on content safety tasks? Jev’s been making the rounds lately, and for good reason — instead of generating prose, it answers named questions directly with a......
LLM Security Leaderboard Now Ranks Every Modality Where Agent Risk Lives: Text, Image, and Audio
When we launched the Cisco LLM Security Leaderboard earlier this year, the goal was simple: give organizations clear, tested data on how models hold up against attacks, so they know the risks before they deploy one. That matters because AI models...
Evolving With Agentic Risk: Updating Our Integrated AI Security & Safety Framework
Nine months ago, we introduced the Integrated AI Safety and Security Framework as a unified and comprehensive taxonomy to help organizations identify and mitigate the security and safety risks unique to AI systems. Existing frameworks remained.....
Your Agent Trusts Things You Never Approved
Several notable breach retrospectives of the last decade have the same shape. The attacker didn't break down the front door. They compromised something the target had already decided to trust — a package, a build tool, a base image — and walked in..
The “U.S. vs. China” AI Trap: An Incomplete Proxy for AI Security
When you look at an AI model’s repository page, you see the name of the model and an associated publisher. In policy and industry conversations, the publisher often gets collapsed into a country label—a “U.S. model” or a “Chinese model”—used as.....
Cisco AI Defense + Armada: Distributed AI That’s Safe to Run, Wherever the Mission Requires It
Foundation-model training and centralized AI services will remain in hyperscale regions, but inference, computer vision, and agentic workloads are moving closer to proprietary data and operations into private AI factories, sovereign clouds.........
A new chapter for IT operations: Cisco Cloud Control is now generally available for U.S. customers
Starting today, Cisco Cloud Control is generally available for U.S. customers. More than 300 customers are already onboarded, and the global pre-GA waitlist surpassed 5,000 sign-ups. Those numbers reinforce what we heard throughout the..........
Powering the Scale Engine for Cisco: How AI is Revolutionizing Digital Customer Experience
A few years ago, I wrote a blog called “The Rise of Digital Customer Experience,” in which I boldly predicted that digital customer experience (DCX) would be the most important function in your company for the next decade. What sounded hyperbolic...


















