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Securing the Next Frontier: Why AI Agent Autonomy Demands Semantic Security
Securing the Next Frontier: Why AI Agent Autonomy Demands Semantic Security
Cisco’s MCP Scanner Introduces Behavioral Code Threat Analysis
Cisco’s MCP Scanner Introduces Behavioral Code Threat Analysis
Introducing Cisco’s Integrated AI Security and Safety Framework
Introducing Cisco’s Integrated AI Security and Safety Framework
Breaking the Jar: Hardening Pickle File Scanners with Structure-Aware Fuzzing
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models are increasingly shared across organizations, fine-tuned, and deployed in production systems. Cisco’s AI Defense offering includes a model file scanning tool designed to help organizations detect and mitigate risks in AI supply chains by verifying their integrity, scanning for malicious payloads, and ensuring compliance before deployment. Strengthening our […]
Securing AI Agents with Cisco’s Open-Source A2A Scanner
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The Rise of Agent Networks: A New Security Frontier Emerging Agent-to-Agent (A2A) frameworks have emerged to support organizations as they move from isolated AI applications to interconnected networks of autonomous agents. A2A enables software agents to discover, authenticate, and collaborate across organizational boundaries, unlocks unprecedented automation capabilities. A2A also introduces an expanded attack surface, and […]
Securing Agents & AI Supply Chain with Cisco AI Defense
3 min read
The conversation around AI and its enterprise applications has rapidly shifted focus to AI agents—autonomous AI systems that are not only capable of conversing, but also reasoning, planning, and executing autonomous actions. Our Cisco AI Readiness Index 2025 underscores this excitement, as 83% of companies surveyed already intend to develop or deploy AI agents across […]
Death by a Thousand Prompts: Open Model Vulnerability Analysis
6 min read
AI models have become increasingly democratized, and the proliferation and adoption of open weight models has contributed significantly to this reality. Open-weight models provide researchers, developers, and AI enthusiasts with a solid foundation for limitless use cases and applications. As of August 2025, leading U.S., Chinese, and European models have around 400M total downloads on […]
SecureBERT 2.0: Cisco’s next-gen AI model powering cybersecurity applications
4 min read
Today, we are excited to share that the SecureBERT 2.0 model is available on HuggingFace and GitHub with an accompanying research paper. This release marks a significant milestone, building on the already widely adopted SecureBERT model to unlock even more advanced cybersecurity applications. Just see this unparalleled performance across real-world tasks: In 2022, the first […]
Cisco AI Defense Integrates with NVIDIA AI Enterprise Software to Secure AI Applications Using NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails
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In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, organizations face a critical challenge: how to harness the transformative power of generative AI while maintaining robust security and compliance standards. As enterprises deploy increasingly sophisticated GenAI applications, the need for comprehensive protection across the entire AI lifecycle has never been more urgent. Today, Cisco is pleased to announce […]
Securing the AI agent supply chain with Cisco’s open-source MCP Scanner
4 min read
As enterprises integrate AI agents into their technology stacks, these agents increasingly rely on external tools and services to navigate complex technology environments. Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables AI models to access external functionalities, tools, resources, and prompts without custom API integrations. At Cisco, we recognize that MCP adoption and utilization brings new and complex […]
Dynamic AI Security: How Cisco AI Defense Protects Against New Threats
4 min read
Introduction The pace at which applications for artificial intelligence are evolving continues to impress. Businesses that once considered taking advantage of AI’s sophisticated predictive and natural language capabilities are now evaluating adoption of AI systems that have the ability to access internal data, make complex decisions, and have high levels of autonomy. As we continue […]
Announcing a New Framework for Securing AI-Generated Code
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Software teams worldwide now rely on AI coding agents to boost productivity and streamline code creation. But security hasn’t kept up. AI-generated code often lacks basic protections: insecure defaults, missing input validation, hardcoded secrets, outdated cryptographic algorithms, and reliance on end-of-life dependencies are common. These gaps create vulnerabilities that can easily be introduced and often […]