Artificial Intelligence - AI
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 “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..........
Powering the Scale Engine for Cisco: How AI is Revolutionizing Digital Customer Experience
A few years ago, I wrote a blog called “The Rise of Digital Customer Experience,” in which I boldly predicted that digital customer experience (DCX) would be the most important function in your company for the next decade. What sounded hyperbolic...
Foundation AI in July: New Models, Benchmarks, and Security Research
July was an Antares month, with a parallel thread on smarter evaluation. Here's what we shipped. Antares (technical report). A family of compact, open-weight models (350M, 1B, and 3B) built for one job: agentic vulnerability localization. Given...
Secure Claude Enterprise with Cisco AI Defense
Teams are putting Claude Enterprise to work fast, and not just for chat. Claude, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork act on behalf of users. They read documents, call tools, and run tasks. That makes the prompt an attack surface. A jailbreak can try to..
Cisco AI Defense: Built for the Way AI Is Actually Used
Enterprise AI lives in conversations — multilingual, multi-turn, and context-dependent. Security has to match that reality. Here is how Cisco AI Defense does.



















