Artificial Intelligence - AI
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...
Foundation AI in July: New Models, Benchmarks, and Security Research
July was an Antares month, with a parallel thread on smarter evaluation. Here's what we shipped. Antares (technical report). A family of compact, open-weight models (350M, 1B, and 3B) built for one job: agentic vulnerability localization. Given...
Secure Claude Enterprise with Cisco AI Defense
Teams are putting Claude Enterprise to work fast, and not just for chat. Claude, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork act on behalf of users. They read documents, call tools, and run tasks. That makes the prompt an attack surface. A jailbreak can try to..
Cisco AI Defense: Built for the Way AI Is Actually Used
Enterprise AI lives in conversations — multilingual, multi-turn, and context-dependent. Security has to match that reality. Here is how Cisco AI Defense does.
Consistent security model deployment with FPR calibration
In our previous Dynamic AI Security blog and the underlying CAMLIS 2025 paper, we described a release platform built to move new protections into production without disrupting customer workflows. Such a platform is a requirement for security......
The Fundamentals of AI: Making AI practical
Training a large language model (LLM) can cost millions of dollars, and deploying one at scale can cost millions more. Despite this, the raw model straight out of training is often the wrong tool for any specific job. This is the gap that 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..........



















