Cisco intensifies focus on cyber security for AI Era

Cisco, a global technology provider, on Tuesday said it made several transformative innovations and partnership announcements that would help security professionals secure and harness the power of AI as part of the company’s continuous drive towards reimagining security for the AI Era.

Security teams have been inundated with thousands of threat alerts daily. An increasingly sophisticated threat landscape combined with an expanding talent shortage meant the need has never been greater for machine scale security and response, the company said.

“The cybersecurity threat landscape has never been more dynamic and complex, with adversaries constantly emboldened and enabled by AI to drive new attacks and exploits,” said Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco.

 To fight back, understaffed security operations and IT leaders needed AI power of their own. Cisco was continuing its mission to secure AI and leverage AI for security with novel open-source models and tools, new AI agents, and IoT advancements, alongside the full breadth of the Cisco Security Cloud, he said.

‘’Together, these innovations will help level the playing field and deliver AI innovation that makes all businesses more secure,’‘ Mr. Patel added.

According to the company, Cisco XDR (extended detection and response) addresses this challenge by correlating telemetry across network, endpoint, cloud, email, and more, using agentic AI to surface what matters most to organizations. The new automated XDR Forensics capabilities offered deeper visibility into endpoint activity, increasing the accuracy of investigations while a new XDR Storyboard visualises complex attacks, empowering security teams to understand threats in seconds and decisively respond faster, claimed Cisco.