This blog was written in collaboration with Yuqing Gao, Jian Tan, Fan Bu, Ali Dabir, Hamid Amini, Doosan Jung, Yury Sokolov, Lei Jin, and Derek Engi. LLMs can sound very convincing, but in network operations, sounding right isn’t enough. Network
When your CISO mentions “AI security” in the next board meeting, what exactly do they mean? Are they talking about protecting your AI systems from attacks? Using AI to catch hackers? Preventing employees from leaking data to an unapproved
This blog was written in collaboration with Fan Bu, Jason Mackay, Borya Sobolev, Dev Khanolkar, Ali Dabir, Puneet Kamal, Li Zhang, and Lei Jin. “Everything is a file”; some are databases Introduction Machine data underpins observability
This blog is written in collaboration by Amy Chang, Vineeth Sai Narajala, and Idan Habler Over the past few weeks, Clawdbot (then renamed Moltbot, later renamed OpenClaw) has achieved virality as an open source, self-hosted personal AI assistant agent
A model context protocol (MCP) tool can claim to execute a benign task such as “validate email addresses,” but if the tool is compromised, it can be redirected to fulfill ulterior motives, such as exfiltrating your entire address book to an external
The New Baseline for AI Security AI is no longer an experimental capability or a back-office automation tool: it is becoming a core operational layer inside modern enterprises. The pace of adoption is breathtaking. Yet, according to Cisco’s 2025 AI
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models are increasingly shared across organizations, fine-tuned, and deployed in production systems. Cisco’s AI Defense offering includes a model file scanning tool designed to help organizations
The Rise of Agent Networks: A New Security Frontier Emerging Agent-to-Agent (A2A) frameworks have emerged to support organizations as they move from isolated AI applications to interconnected networks of autonomous agents. A2A enables software agents
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
