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.......
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..........
Secure your data center against evolving threats, including quantum computing and AI. Discover how resilient, quantum-safe infrastructure from Cisco provides real-time protection to keep your business running smoothly without downtime.
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...
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....
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....
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...........
AI can transform wireless management and operations, but it also accelerates security threats. But wireless security has also evolved: Modern standards like WPA3, available on Wi‑Fi 7, deliver stronger protection without adding operational burden.
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.....
