Artificial Intelligence - AI

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..........

June 30, 2026 • 4 min read

Yuri Kramarz

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...

June 29, 2026 • 8 min read

Ryan Fetterman

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....

June 29, 2026 • 8 min read

Venkat Subramanian

Shiva Guntoju

Securing AI Agents with Cisco AI Defense

AI agents are moving from demos into production fast — and every LLM call and external tool they invoke is a new attack surface. This post introduces Agent Runtime Protection in the Cisco AI Defense Python SDK: a one-line integration that brings....

June 29, 2026 • 5 min read

Huaibo Zhao

SoftBank Corp.’s SOC Triaging Workflow Automated with Cisco Foundation AI’s Open-Source Model

SoftBank Corp. (“SoftBank”) has integrated Cisco Foundation AI’s Foundation-sec-1.1-8B-Instruct model into their Security Operations Center (SOC) triaging workflow, enabling full automation of suspicious software detection, dynamic policy...........

June 22, 2026 • 4 min read

Nicholas Conley

Gurpreet Kaur Khalsa

Introducing Agent Harness Testing in Cisco AI Defense

Today, we are excited to introduce Agent Validation as a new evaluation capability in AI Defense: Explorer Edition, the free self-service version of Cisco AI Defense, that is built specifically for agentic AI systems. Agent Validation builds on.....

June 16, 2026 • 3 min read

Huaibo Zhao

Deloitte Japan Advances Security Operations with Cisco Foundation AI’s Open-Source Model

We are excited to announce that Deloitte Japan is beginning production validation of Cisco Foundation AI’s Foundation-sec-1.1-8B-Instruct model for its security operations. By using this security-focused, open-source large language model (LLM)......

June 12, 2026 • 4 min read

Cisco AI Defense Policy Studio: Turning Unwritten Policy into Adaptive AI Guardrails

Cisco's Integrated AI Security and Safety Framework and our recent work on defining taxonomy constitutions focused on defining and detecting common risks shared among enterprises when deploying AI. However, while most enterprises share a lot of.....

June 10, 2026 • 5 min read

Spencer Colemere

Protecting SaaS AI Agents with Cisco AI Defense and AppOmni

Enterprise AI agents are no longer experimental. Organizations are deploying agents inside ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, and other SaaS platforms to handle everything from IT support tickets to financial workflows. These agents access sensitive.......

June 3, 2026 • 2 min read

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