Modernization is an essential investment in the long-term health and security of our digital infrastructure. We cannot defend against tomorrow’s sophisticated threats or effectively deploy AI while relying on antiquated IT equipment.
Statement by Eric Wenger, Senior Director, Technology Policy, Government Affairs: The 2026 National Cyber Strategy aggressively modernizes federal cyber capabilities and fortifies national defenses by modernizing procurement and dismantling restrictive regulatory barriers. This decisive focus dramatically accelerates the government’s ability to utilize the private sector’s most advanced hardware, software, and services to rapidly adopt groundbreaking […]
As policymakers confront new cybersecurity challenges from emerging technologies like AI and quantum computing, an urgent threat hides in plain sight—end-of-Life (EoL) technology beyond its supported lifespan. Headlines focus on novel threats and futuristic defenses, while outdated network equipment and software in critical infrastructure already pose a clear and present danger. This is demonstrated by […]
Effective international cooperation is essential to combat global cybercrime and uphold shared values, but the latest UN Convention against Cybercrime falls short and requires more attention before ratification by member states.
As a founding member of the Network Resilience Coalition, Cisco appreciates CISA’s shared commitment to focusing attention and investment on efforts to secure and maintain existing critical networked technologies.
Cisco comments on the Biden administration's new National Cybersecurity Strategy.
Last week, Cisco’s Head of Open Source, Stephen Augustus, and I joined nearly 100 executives from 37 companies and leaders from the White House and across the U.S. federal government in Washington DC at the Open Source Software Security Summit II to finalize an action plan to boost the security of open source software (“OSS”). […]
Cisco applauds and continues to emphasize the importance of the govenment sharing actionable cyber threat information with the private sector as quickly, and at the lowest level of classification, as possible.
Cisco's Eric Wenger, Senior Director of Technology Policy, Global Government Affairs, welcomes the continued attention that the U.S. federal government is applying to secure critical infrastructure (CI).
