A year ago, we introduced the world to Cisco AI Defense, the industry’s first truly comprehensive enterprise AI security solution. In the year since, AI technology has evolved at an unbelievable pace, and the AI security landscape has seen seismic shifts in parallel. Teams were once concerned that their chatbots might produce harmful or sensitive […]
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 that runs locally and executes actions on the user’s behalf. The bot’s explosive rise is driven by […]
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 server. Traditional security scanners could flag suspicious network calls or dangerous functions and […]
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 Readiness Index, only 29 percent of companies believe they are adequately equipped to defend against […]
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 detect and mitigate risks in AI supply chains by verifying their integrity, scanning for malicious payloads, and ensuring compliance before deployment. Strengthening our […]
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 to discover, authenticate, and collaborate across organizational boundaries, unlocks unprecedented automation capabilities. A2A also introduces an expanded attack surface, and […]
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 […]
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