AI is changing everything—and it’s coming for your data center architecture. AI applications are exposing cracks in legacy security, driving explosive growth in traffic, limiting your visibility and expanding your attack surface. You need help. But you’re not alone. Join Cisco Cloud and Network Security VP, Rick Miles, and Western Union Senior Architect, Fabian Bolanos, for a get-real conversation on what it takes to secure the AI-driven data center. In this 30-minute back and forth, you’ll learn how Western Union simplified and strengthened its security architecture and increased its operational efficiency and resilience. In the process, they tackled the same issues you’re facing: Securing AI workloads without slowing them down, boosting visibility in a more distributed environment, and instituting a more unified and scalable approach. If you’re thinking about getting your own data center AI-ready, this is a conversation you’ll want to sit in on. So join us.
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The topic of agentic security was a very big one at RSAC Conference this year. The conversation was split between safe and secure agentic AI enablement for the enterprise (and consumers), and the agentic enablement of threat actors armed with a new generation of AI tools. The second part of my conversation with Rajneesh C., SVP and CPO of Cisco Security, touched on the crisis of trust that we face, and the framework that Cisco is contributing openly to help foster safe, enterprise grade GenAI and agentic AI applications. I highly encourage you watch. Raj does a great job of outlining a holistic blueprint that Cisco is working off for safe agentic AI and enterprise GenAI. Bottom line, Getting to safe agentic AI is a journey with many twists and chasms along the way. We are in the early rounds facing a threat environment that is highly fluid and moving at machine speed. It will take a mindset of safe AI innovation that preemptively injects what Raj calls "common sense" in lieu of lagging best practices to meet the challenges and threats of fast-evolving AI-assisted cyberattacks. Remember to follow neXt Curve for the agentic security insights and analysis that matter. Forbes Technology Council Questex Jeetu Patel Joely Urton Grace Chung Ruth Busbee #rsac2026 #rsacconference #nextcurve #cisco #agenticai #cybersecurity #agenticsecurity
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Join us for a 30-minute broadcast as we reveal how Cisco extends its industry‑leading Zero Trust architecture to secure the agentic AI workforce. We will unpack new capabilities to enable secure, accountable operation of AI agents under strict safety and access controls. Gain the confidence to deploy your AI agents and unlock a new era of productivity and innovation- without compromising your security posture. Agentic AI is set to transform the workforce, effectively scaling the impact of 8 billion people to the equivalent of 80 billion. However, as AI transitions from simply answering questions to taking autonomous actions, we must close the trust gap. We need to ensure that these agents do not go rogue, expose sensitive data, or perform unsafe actions. Join Kevin Kennedy, VP of Product Marketing for Security, and Matt Caulfield, VP of Product for Identity, as they explore how securing the new agentic workforce means that we both need to protect agents from the world to prevent them from being compromised or tricked, and protect the world from agents to ensure they do not disrupt the business with unpredictable actions. Special guest Anahi Santiago, CISO of ChristianaCare, will share insights on the real‑world challenges with using and securing AI and agentic AI workflows.
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“Your next employee might not be human… and your security strategy isn’t ready for it.” At RSAC, I spoke to Tom Gillis, SVP & GM of Infrastructure & Security Group at Cisco on The Ravit Show, and the conversation quickly moved beyond the usual AI hype into something much more real. We talked about agentic AI not just as a tool, but as a system that can act on its own, make decisions, and operate across enterprise data. That shift is forcing a complete rethink of security, because traditional models were built around humans, not autonomous agents. One thing that stood out was how security teams have always played it safe, often defaulting to “no,” but with agentic AI, that mindset becomes a bottleneck. The real challenge now is enabling this new layer of intelligence without losing control. We also unpacked what it really means to secure an “agentic workforce.” If every employee starts running multiple AI agents, each acting independently, the attack surface grows overnight. So do we start treating these agents like endpoints? Do they need identities, permissions, and governance just like humans? And if that’s the case, how do SOC teams even deal with the explosion of alerts and signals? What I found interesting is that this is not some distant future problem, it is already showing up, and companies like Cisco are actively working through how to design security systems that can keep up. This conversation made one thing very clear to me. The AI conversation is no longer about models or capabilities. It is about control, trust, and how we rethink security for a world where humans are no longer the only actors inside the enterprise. #data #ai #rsac #cisco #theravitshow
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Last month, we published the Race to Agentic AI report with Omdia. This week at RSA, Jeetu Patel laid out Cisco's security strategy for the agentic workforce. The timing wasn't a coincidence. Our research found that 85% of enterprises have AI agent pilots underway. Only 5% have moved agents into production. That gap isn't about the technology falling short. It's about trust. Sixty-two percent of the executives we surveyed told us they're struggling with the fundamentals: protecting networks from AI-driven attacks, managing agent identities, and securing data in motion. The bottleneck isn't capability. It's trust. At RSA, Jeetu reframed security as the accelerator. Protect agents from the world. Protect the world from agents. Detect and respond at machine speed. That framing resonated because it maps directly to what customers are telling us and what 650 executives confirmed in our research. I sat down with Zeus Kerravala from ZK Research to dig into this, with Casey Corman moderating. One theme kept surfacing: the organizations pulling ahead invested in infrastructure and security together, not sequentially. Eighty percent of executives believe agentic AI will be essential for competitive survival by 2027. The research tells us the foundation has to come first. Denis Andrew Roy DJ Sampath Elizabeth Adkison Kevin Kennedy Ambika Kapur Tom Gillis Peter Bailey Matt Caulfield Akshay Bhargava
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Cisco Talos’ 2025 Year in Review is available to view now! Read the full report here for key trends and defense tips — no annoying forms, just helpful analysis: https://cs.co/6048B6X0Bg
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Exciting news! Cisco AI Defense is excited to be a launch partner for Agent Control, a new open standard designed to govern the runtime behavior of AI agents As enterprises transition autonomous agents into production, this partnership replaces fragmented, "hard-coded" security with a centralized control plane. By integrating Cisco's enterprise-grade guardrails directly into the Agent Control ecosystem, organizations can now enforce consistent security policies, prevent PII / data leakage, and mitigate risks in real-time-all without modifying a single line of agent code. Deploy autonomous agents with total confidence and visibility. #AgentControl #EnterpriseAI #Cybersecurity
Every agent your team ships has its own hardcoded guardrails, its own bespoke logic, its own failure modes. That's not governance. These brittle controls soon become a liability. Galileo is proud to announce the open-source launch of Agent Control 🚀 Agent Control is the open-source control plane that solves for the open, centralized governance needs for all your AI Agents. 💬 "We've had a front-row seat to agent development at Fortune 500 and digital-native companies. They have been struggling to hard-code safety rules and controls into each agent which makes them brittle. With Agent Control, developers can now create policies in one place and then use those to enforce guardrails everywhere." — Yash Sheth, Co-founder & CTO, Galileo Agent Control integrates seamlessly with all your agents using the @control hook or just by leveraging our native integrations with some of the leading agent frameworks. No redeployment. No code changes. No vendor lock-in. 💬 “Centralized management of policies can help organizations to manage AI agent behaviors. A unified control plane and centralized governance of agents can help organizations efficiently deploy AI agents at scale. Organizations that embrace eval engineering as a core competency will shorten the time to value for their AI investments. By taking a lifecycle approach, organizations can achieve a continuous improvement loop for AI systems.” – Tim Law, IDC Research Director, AI and Automation Agent Control is already backed by partners including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco AI Defense, CrewAI, Glean, ServiceNow, and Rubrik, and it works with the guardrail providers you already use, from our Luna models to NVIDIA NeMo or AWS Bedrock. The repo is live, built in the open with contributions from some of the largest AI infrastructure companies in the world. Try it out today: https://agentcontrol.dev/ Watch Yash walk through how it works in the video below, and check the comments for links to our launch webinar, announcement blog, and full press release. 👇
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The AI-driven era is here, but are you ready for the new threats? 🚨 Dive into the latest on how threat actors are weaponizing AI, the biggest changes in AI policy, and what every organization needs to know to stay ahead, in our new State of AI Security 2026 Report: https://cs.co/6040hoVi8.
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Cisco’s new Silicon One chip takes it up a notch, and AgenticOps new capabilities are here to make IT life easier. #CiscoLiveEMEA
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Cisco Live EMEA 2026 will kick off in a few weeks and there are exciting news for those of you participating. First of all, the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) will be hosting individual sessions through Meet the Engineer. My colleagues Daniel Arrondo Ostiz, Marco Cassini, and I are thrilled to answer your questions around Cisco product security, Cisco product forensics, and vulnerability management at Cisco. Have you ever stumbled across acronyms like CSAF, CVR, CVSS, EoS, EPSS, LDoS, SIR, TPS, or VEX and wondered how they relate to vulnerability management? - We will be happy to demystify these for you! Any Cisco Live participant with at least an Explorer pass can take advantage of this opportunity. Book your slot (topic: "PSIRT") through the Meet the Engineer scheduling tool before our calendar fills up: https://lnkd.in/dBJYneR2 Alternatively, reach out to any of us directly and we will arrange the meeting. Another great experience, at the Capture the Flag booth, will be the Offensive Security & Forensics CTF track, led by Roberto Petrillo and proctored by our colleagues Bernardo Gaspar, Claire Griffin, and Kinga Juszczyk. Challenge yourselves practicing CI/CD exploitation, phone calls interception, covert-channel analysis and much more. All CTF missions will grant Cisco Continuing Education (CE) Credits upon completion! More information here: https://lnkd.in/dgtCA77G Come and join us at Cisco Live Amsterdam in February. I look forward to seeing you there! #CiscoLiveEMEA #MeetTheEngineer #CiscoCTF #Security