AI Security
Securing Agents & AI Supply Chain with Cisco AI Defense
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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 […]
Connected, Protected, Ready: Securing Partner Growth in the AI Era
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Cisco Partner Summit emphasized the crucial role of partners in securing the AI era. With 86% of businesses facing AI-related security incidents, Cisco is enabling partners to build AI-ready infrastructures and help customers confidently adopt new capabilities through innovations like Multi-customer management in Cisco Security Cloud Control and enhancements to the Cisco 360 Partner Program.
Death by a Thousand Prompts: Open Model Vulnerability Analysis
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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
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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
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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 […]
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 […]
Cisco research warns EU infrastructure debt could be the emerging drag on AI value
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About 7% of organizations in the EU are fully prepared to leverage AI. Early warning signs point to a gap between AI ambition and operational readiness.
Securing an Exponentially Growing (AI) Supply Chain
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Foundation AI's Cerberus is a 24/7 guard for the AI supply chain, analyzing models as they enter HuggingFace and sharing results to Cisco Security products.
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