30 Years on the Frontlines of the Internet: Why I’m Optimistic About AI
We’ve navigated tech shifts before. Keeping security in lockstep with AI innovation, we choose calm, steady progress with both optimism and vigilance.
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Cisco and VAST help organizations bring advanced AI models to their most sensitive data, protecting data and models while in use, without giving up control.
LLM Security Leaderboard Now Ranks Every Modality Where Agent Risk Lives: Text, Image, and Audio
When we launched the Cisco LLM Security Leaderboard earlier this year, the goal was simple: give organizations clear, tested data on how models hold up against attacks, so they know the risks before they deploy one. That matters because AI models...
Evolving With Agentic Risk: Updating Our Integrated AI Security & Safety Framework
Nine months ago, we introduced the Integrated AI Safety and Security Framework as a unified and comprehensive taxonomy to help organizations identify and mitigate the security and safety risks unique to AI systems. Existing frameworks remained.....
Your Agent Trusts Things You Never Approved
Several notable breach retrospectives of the last decade have the same shape. The attacker didn't break down the front door. They compromised something the target had already decided to trust — a package, a build tool, a base image — and walked in..
The AI ready home: how Cisco helps broadband providers deliver next generation experience
Bandwidth scaling is no longer enough to satisfy demand coming from AI applications at the home. Providers need a resilient, intelligent network that delivers the performance that AI applications dictate.
The “U.S. vs. China” AI Trap: An Incomplete Proxy for AI Security
When you look at an AI model’s repository page, you see the name of the model and an associated publisher. In policy and industry conversations, the publisher often gets collapsed into a country label—a “U.S. model” or a “Chinese model”—used as.....
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..........