Cisco (Nasdaq:CSCO) is the dominant vendor in enterprise networking, and under CEO Chuck Robbins, it continues to shake things up.
Cisco is focusing on strategic AI initiatives and partnerships across various regions to build and power AI data centers and ecosystems. This includes collaborations with major players like BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, Microsoft and Nvidia to drive investment and scale AI infrastructure.
The networking giant continues to focus on integrating AI into its security offerings, with announcements around Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvida, which aims to embed security into all layers of AI infrastructure.
Cisco news and analysis
Cisco: AI demands more reliable optical networking components
October 3, 2025: As AI networking environments become more dependent on optical networking components, enterprises need to pay close attention to the reliability of high-speed optics, Cisco warns.
Cisco admins urged to patch IOS, IOS XE devices
September 25, 2025: Network admins should quickly patch a vulnerability in Cisco Systems IOS and IOS XE software to remove a stack overflow condition in the software’s Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subsystem or risk nasty attacks, say experts.
Cisco expands its quantum networking portfolio with new software prototypes
September 25, 2025: Cisco announced a package of prototype software it says will facilitate distributed quantum computing networks and support real-time applications. Essentially, the software enables distributed quantum computing in the quantum data center.
Cisco’s Splunk embeds agentic AI into security and observability products
September 9, 2025: Cisco unveiled agentic AI-powered security and observability capabilities built to automate threat response, streamline IT operations, and manage complex environments. Splunk Enterprise Security Premier and Splunk Enterprise Security Essentials are designed to unify security workflows across threat detection, investigation, and response.
Cisco launches AI-driven data fabric powered by Splunk
September 8, 2025: Cisco unveiled a new data architecture that’s powered by the Splunk platform and designed to help enterprises glean AI-driven insights from machine-generated telemetry, such as metrics, events, logs and traces.
Cisco launches dedicated wireless certification track
August 27, 2025: Cisco is introducing a new wireless certification track in response to demand for specialized wireless expertise. The Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Wireless and Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Enterprise (CCIE) Wireless certifications will replace the CCNP Enterprise wireless concentration. CCNP Enterprise will continue to focus on routing, switching, SD-WAN, security, automation, cloud connectivity, and virtualization.
Russian hackers exploit old Cisco flaw to target global enterprise networks
August 21, 2025: Russian state-sponsored cyber actors linked to the Federal Security Service (FSB) conducted a decade-long espionage campaign that compromised thousands of enterprise network devices across critical sectors worldwide, according to an FBI advisory. The threat actor, designated “Static Tundra” by Cisco Talos and previously known as “Berserk Bear” and “Dragonfly,” systematically exploited CVE-2018-0171, a six-year-old vulnerability in Cisco Smart Install (SMI), to gain deep access to enterprise network infrastructure and conduct reconnaissance on industrial control systems.
Cisco ties storage networking gear to IBM z17 mainframe
August 20, 2025: Cisco said its MDS 9000 Series multilayer switches, including the MDS 9148V switch, have been tested and validated for compatibility with IBM z17 mainframe environments. This latest generation of IBM mainframe features new AI acceleration technologies as well as improved management for hybrid cloud applications, encryption and threat detection, and integrated and simplified programming capabilities.
Warning: Patch this hole in Cisco Secure FMC fast
August 15, 2025: Admins using Cisco Systems Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software for network login authentication are being warned to quickly patch a major vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to breach security. At risk are deployments configured for RADIUS authentication for the web-based management interface, SSH management, or both, Cisco said in its alert.
Cisco Q4 results: AI infrastructure orders surpass goal
August 14, 2025: Cisco is seeing significant AI infrastructure demand and expects that growth to continue into next year, executives said as the company wrapped up its 2025 fiscal year.
Cisco strengthens AI networking story
August 13, 2025: Network infrastructure is described as the plumbing of the internet, with Cisco chief among the providers. As the AI era unfolds and that plumbing needs modernizing, Cisco is vying to secure its role as a key AI infrastructure provider across enterprise and hyperscaler networking environments.
Cisco teams with Hugging Face for AI model anti-malware
August 5, 2025: The Foundation AI team at Cisco teamed with AI model hub Hugging Face to bolster malware protection and strengthen security across the AI ecosystem.
Cisco warns of another critical RCE flaw in ISE, urges immediate patching
July 18, 2025: Cisco dropped another maximum severity advisory detailing an unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) flaw in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC).
Cisco upgrades 400G optical receiver to boost AI infrastructure throughput
July 17, 2025: Cisco unveiled a new optical receiver that lets data center customers better support AI and other high-throughput applications. The 400G bidirectional (BiDi) optical transceiver allows customers to upgrade to higher throughput without tearing out existing fiber
Hardcoded root credentials in Cisco Unified CM trigger max-severity alert
July 3, 2025: Cisco has patched a max severity flaw in its Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME) products that could let attackers walk right in using a hardcoded root login.
Cisco warns of critical API vulnerabilities in ISE and ISE-PIC
June 26, 2025: Companies are being urged to quickly patch multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Systems Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to issue commands on the underlying operating system as the root user.
Cisco CIO on the future of IT: AI, simplicity, and employee power
June 26, 2025: As Cisco infuses its enterprise infrastructure products with AI, the technology is also infiltrating its internal platforms, directed by Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn. His focus is on developing and using AI tools that can change how Cisco and its employees do business.
Cisco backs quantum networking startup Qunnect
June 24, 2025: Cisco Investments is backing Qunnect, a network hardware company that has designs on building quantum communication systems using existing telecom fiber.
Cisco capitalizes on Isovalent buy, unveils new load balancer
June 16, 2025: Since it acquired open-source software developer Isovalent in 2024, Cisco has been busy integrating its technology into some core products. In particular, Cisco has elevated the use of Isovalent’s core container communications technology, Kubernetes-native networking and security platform eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter).
Cisco underscores AI commitment with networking LLM, agentic AI interface
June 12, 2025: A wide range of new AI-based software and technology from Cisco is designed to manage, secure and automate network operations as well as to cement Cisco’s place at the center of customers’ AI infrastructure plans. Cisco rolled out the new wares at its Cisco Live event.
At Cisco Live, it’s all about AI for networking and security
June 11, 2025: Cisco Live focused on two aspects: AI being used to make Cisco technology smarter and easier to use, and Cisco innovations that will enable customers to adopt AI. An easy way to consider the two buckets is “AI for Cisco” and “Cisco for AI.”
Cisco Live: Security focus yields new firewalls, Hypershield integrations, and agentic AI defenses
June 11, 2025: At its Cisco Live event, the vendor rolled out a new Hybrid Mesh Firewall portfolio, bolstered security support with partner Nvidia, and further tightened its own technology integration with its Splunk platform. The announcements share a common goal of protecting all things AI – workloads, inferencing, models and more – as Cisco works to secure the core infrastructure that supports the AI build-out.
Cisco reinvigorates data center, campus, branch networking with AI demands in mind
June 10, 2025: Cisco has upgraded critical components of its network family – including switches, routers and software for data center, campus, branch and IoT – in a major effort to deliver the growing capacity and management capabilities its enterprise customers will need for AI environments.
Cisco Live: AI will bring developer workflow closer to the network
June 10, 2025: AI is reshaping networking in ways that demand a new degree of programmability, observability, and optimization, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said. And if history is any guide, what starts as an infrastructure concern for network and platform teams will eventually trickle down to developers.
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers under threat again after critical exploit details go public
June 3, 2025: The heat is back on Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs) running Cisco IOS XE after technical details of a recently disclosed max-severity exploit were made public.
Cisco bolsters DNS security package
May 29, 2025: Cisco has bulked-up its Domain Name System (DNS) security software with new features including AI-enhanced DNS tunneling mitigation and stronger cloud malware detection. Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense replaces the current Cisco Umbrella DNS Essentials and Advantage packages and enhances those offerings.
Cisco taps OpenAI’s Codex for AI-driven network coding
May 16, 2025: Cisco is working with OpenAI and its Codex software engineering agent to give network engineers access to better tools for writing, testing and building code. The AI coding agent is available via ChatGPT and can navigate a codebase, implement and test code changes, and propose pull requests for review, according to Cisco.
Cisco joins AI infrastructure alliance
May 13, 2025: Cisco joinied a group led by BlackRock, Microsoft and Nvidia to develop secure and scalable infrastructure to support AI workloads. The AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP) includes investors, asset owners, and corporations with plans to raise up to $30 billion for the development of data centers for artificial intelligence and the energy infrastructure to power them.
Cisco patches max-severity flaw allowing arbitrary command execution
May 9, 2025: Cisco is urging customers to patch for a maximum-severity flaw affecting its IOS XE Software for Wireless controllers. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-20188, received a severity rating of CVSS 10/10 because of its high exploitability and the ability to allow arbitrary command execution.
Cisco unveils prototype quantum networking chip
May 6. 2025: Cisco is developing a quantum entanglement chip that could ultimately become part of the gear that will populate future quantum data centers.
Cisco automates AI-driven security across enterprise networks
April 28, 2025: Cisco announced a range of AI-driven security enhancements, including improved threat detection and response capabilities in Cisco XDR and Splunk Security, new AI agents, and integration between Cisco’s AI Defense platform and ServiceNow SecOps.
Cisco SVP talks agentic AI, quantum security and sustainable infrastructure
Aprill 14, 2025: Cisco is building AI capabilities across its portfolio, including collaboration, observability, security, and network software, to help customers more effectively tackle challenges such as employee productivity and digital resilience.
Cisco GM underscores focus on issues critical for Spain’s tech development
April 10, 2025: Cisco recently celebrated its 40 anniversary, and its mission to connect the world remains intact. It’s focused on critical areas such as AI and cybersecurity that have worldwide relevance, including in Spain, where Cisco has more than three decades of history, says Andreu Vilamitjana, general manager of Cisco in Iberia, who spoke recently at the company’s Engage event in Madrid.
Cisco, Google Cloud offer enterprises new way to connect SD-WANs
Apriil 9, 2025: Cisco and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership to integrate Cisco’s SD-WAN with the cloud provider’s fully managed Cloud WAN service. For Cisco SD-WAN customers, the integration provides a new, secure way to tie together geographically dispersed enterprise data center sites with their Google Cloud workloads using Google’s core global network backbone.
Cisco takes inspiration from Iron Man for its AI-driven platform engineer
April 2, 2025: When it comes to developing highly intelligent AI agents, you might not think of combining open systems technology and the theoretical super-logic behind a movie character, but Cisco’s Outshift development team is doing just that. To address the complexity of platform and infrastructure engineering, Cisco is drawing inspiration from the “Iron Man” superhero franchise.
Cisco, Nvidia team to deliver secure AI factory infrastructure
March 18, 2025: Cisco and Nvidia have expanded their partnership to create their most advanced AI architecture package to date, designed to promote secure enterprise AI networking. The Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia brings together Cisco security and networking technology, Nvidia DPUs, and storage options from multiple vendors.
Jio teams with AMD, Cisco and Nokia to build AI-enabled telecom platform
March 18. 2025: Initiative led by Jio Platforms Limited will combine AMD’s computing solutions, Cisco’s networking and security, and Nokia’s RAN and core technologies.
Cisco’s AI agents for WebEx aim to improve customer service
Mar 17, 2025: Cisco is adding new features to its Webex collaboration tool as it expands its adoption of agentic AI.
Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn talks culture: ‘They can steal your technology, but not your philosophy’
February 26, 2025: In an interview with CIO Spain, Fletcher Previn, Cisco’s CIO, discussed Cisco’s roadmap, discussed AI regulations, advocated for balance among legislation, innovation and risk, and revealed how he approaches shadow IT in his own organization.
5 takeaways from Cisco Live EMEA
February 26, 2025: To no one’s surprise, the primary theme at Cisco Live EMEA was AI and how it will change the way we live. And, more importantly, how AI will forever alter how IT pros deploy and operate our IT environments.
Cisco, Nvidia expand AI partnership to include Silicon One technology
February 25. 2025: Nvidia will couple Cisco Silicon One technology with Nvidia SuperNICs as part of its Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform, and Cisco will build systems that combine Nvidia Spectrum silicon with Cisco OS software.
Cisco financials catch AI demand, enterprise networking growth
February 13, 2025: Cisco executives were upbeat about the growth in AI orders — $700 million so far this year, on way to surpass $1 billion in 2025 – as the networking giant detailed a successful 2Q earnings period this week to Wall Street.
Cisco doubles down on AI with new, updated certifications
February 11, 2025: Cisco this week furthered its commitment to help customers support and develop artificial intelligence systems by rolling out new AI certification and training courses aimed at teaching professionals everything from how to incorporate AI into specific roles to advanced networking design.
Cisco data center switches feature baked-in security for AI, networking duties
February 11, 2025: Cisco has unwrapped a new family of data center switches it says will help customers more securely support large workloads and facilitate AI development across the enterprise.
Cisco launches AI Renewals Agent with Mistral AI
February 10, 2025: Cisco rolled out its first of many AI agents codeveloped with partner Mistral AI, a genAI and large language model (LLM) startup. The so-called AI Renewals Agent is an on-premise, AI-based application that Cisco’s internal Customer Experience (CX) group will use to help retain and renew customers more quickly.
Cisco’s ISE bugs could allow root-level command execution
February 7, 2025: Cisco is warning enterprise admins of two critical flaws within its identity and access management (IAM) solution, Identity Services Engine (ISE), that could allow attackers to obtain unauthorized privileges and run arbitrary commands on affected systems.
Cisco researchers highlight emerging threats to AI models
February 4, 2025: Cisco security researchers this week detailed a number of threats they are seeing from bad actors trying to attack the large language model, AI’s most common component. Being able to disguise and hide content from machine analysis or human oversight is likely to become a more important vector of attack against AI systems, according to Cisco..
Cisco touts ‘Internet of Agents’ for secure AI agent collaboration
January 30, 2025: When AI agents begin to proliferate, a new, open structure will be needed so they can securely communicate and collaborate together to solve complex problems, suggests Cisco. To head off potential problems such as agent sprawl and fragmented infrastructure, Cisco’s advanced research outfit Outshift is proposing the “Internet of Agents.”
Cisco patches antivirus decommissioning bug as exploit code surfaces
January 23, 2025: Cisco has patched a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability affecting its open-source antivirus software toolkit, ClamAV, which already has a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code available to the public.
Cisco CEO Robbins on AI: Pressure to deploy is real
January 22, 2025: Interest in AI has exploded over the last two or three years, but enterprises are only just beginning to think about how they’re going to take advantage of it, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins told the audience at the company’s recent AI Summit.
Cisco unveils AI Defense package
Jan. 15, 2025: Cisco rolled out a service that promises to protect enterprise AI development projects with visibility, access control, threat defense, and other safeguards. The AI Defense package offers protection to enterprise customers developing AI applications across models and cloud services, according to Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s security, data center, Internet and cloud infrastructure groups.
Cisco in 2025: Lots of hard work ahead
Jan. 8, 2025: Cisco executed a fairly short list of technology rollouts in 2024 and made a surprising lack of major updates to its core networking portfolio, which might have contributed to the 23% decline in networking revenue. In 2025, Cisco needs to refocus on enterprise networking and make the data center an all-inclusive home for AI applications, industry watchers say. Security technologies must continue to be a priority as well.
Cisco in 2024: the highlights
Cisco grabs SnapAttack for threat detection
Dec. 17, 2024: Cisco is acquiring threat-detection startup SnapAttack for an undisclosed amount as it continues to expand its security portfolio. Established in 2001 by Booz Allen’s Dark Labs, SnapAttack is known for its threat detection and engineering technology, which melds threat intelligence, attack emulation, and behavioral analytics to help customers identify potential vulnerabilities and gaps in their networks, ideally before problems happen.
Cisco strengthens AWS integration to speed multicloud troubleshooting
Dec. 5, 2024: Cisco bolstered integrations between its own hybrid cloud offerings and AWS to improve visibility and help enterprise customers more accurately troubleshoot application availability issues across multicloud networks. The new network troubleshooting capabilities revolve around container security technology that Cisco gained in its acquisition of Isovalent and integrated into its infrastructure offerings.
Cisco, NTT Data partner to simplify private 5G connectivity
Nov. 26, 2024: Cisco and NTT Data extended their partnership to offer customers more streamlined options for deploying private 5G services for enterprise connectivity. The partnership ties Cisco’s networking technologies to NTT Data’s Transatel network.
Cisco: Pressure to deploy AI is up, but only 13% feel ready
Nov. 20, 2024: Pressure to implement AI plans is on the rise, but the readiness of enterprise networks to handle AI workloads has actually declined over the past year, according to Cisco’s AI Readiness Index.
Cisco amps up Splunk observability platform
Nov. 14, 2024: Updates to Cisco’s Splunk Observability portfolio include new features as well as tie-ins to Splunk AppDynamics to help IT teams unify visibility and improve performance troubleshooting across on-premises and cloud environments.
Cisco launches intelligent Wi-Fi 7 access points
Nov. 14, 2024: Cisco has taken the wraps off a pair of intelligent WiFi-7 access points and introduced a new way of licensing wireless gear across cloud, on-premises and hybrid networks.
Cisco IoT wireless access points hit by severe command injection flaw
Nov. 7, 2024: Cisco’s URWB hardware has been hit with a hard-to-ignore flaw that could allow attackers to hijack the access points’ web interface using a crafted HTTP request. Cisco said the issue affects three products: the Catalyst IW9165D Heavy Duty Access Points, the Catalyst IW9165E Rugged Access Points and Wireless Clients, and the Catalyst IW9167E Heavy Duty Access Points.
Cisco takes aim at developing quantum data center
Oct. 31, 2024: Cisco Research recently hosted its Quantum Summit 2024 gathering that drew industry experts to discuss ongoing work focused on everything quantum from networking to security, but it was research being done in the quantum data center that garnered most of Cisco’s focus.
Cisco pumps up data center networking with AI, large workloads in mind
Oct. 16, 2024: Cisco is boosting network density for its data center switch and router portfolio as it works to deliver the infrastructure its customers need for AI workloads and high-performance computing. Specifically, Cisco is scaling up its Nexus 9000 data center switches and Series 8000 routers for AI-ready networking.
Cisco revamps key DevNet sandboxes
Oct. 10, 2024: Cisco has expanded its DevNet sandbox environments to make it easier for network professionals to test and develop applications for key enterprise networking technologies. The new and upgraded DevNet sandboxes are dedicated to Catalyst Center, CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation, and Meraki products.
Cisco layoffs hit California workers
Sept. 20, 2024: Cisco’s rolling layoffs are taking a toll on workers in California. According to the state’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) system, which mandates a 60-day notification of large-scale layoffs, 842 employees impacted by the vendor’s current restructuring plan will come from the San Jose-San Francisco area. There is also speculation – not confirmed by Cisco – that some of its headquarters buildings will be closed.
Cisco ties AppDynamics to Microsoft Azure for cloud application management
Aug. 30, 2024: Cisco is now offering its AppDynamics application management suite as part of Microsoft Azure cloud services. Through the integration with Azure, Cisco’s AppDynamics platform can manage the performance of applications, virtual machines and other resources hosted on Microsoft’s cloud platform.
Cisco snaps up AI security player Robust Intelligence
Aug. 27, 2024: Cisco announced plans to acquire Robust Intelligence, a security startup with a platform designed to protect AI models and data throughout the development-to-production lifecycle. It’s paying an undisclosed amount to acquire the company, which Cisco has previously invested in through its Cisco Investments portfolio.
Cisco to cut 7% of workforce, restructure product groups
Aug. 14, 2024: Cisco is cutting 6,000 jobs in its second round of layoffs this year and combining its networking, security and collaboration groups into one unit led by Jeetu Patel. Cisco wants to use this restructuring to pump more resources into three growth areas: AI networking, security and collaboration.
Cisco expected to follow Dell with layoff announcement: Report
Aug. 09, 2024: A round of layoff announcements at Dell and Cisco are a result of both companies currently losing core market share to new industry competitors: Arista Networks for Cisco, in their core networking business, and low-cost PC manufacturers like Acer for Dell, an analyst said.
Cisco: AI can help security challenges created by IT/OT integration
July 31, 2024: When companies increase IT/OT integration, they can simplify operations, boost security and streamline decision making, according to Cisco’s industrial networking research.
Cisco Talos analyzes attack chains, network ransomware tactics
July 11, 2024: Cisco’s Talos security intelligence group analyzed ransomware groups to identify common techniques and offer recommendations to help security team better protect their businesses.
Cisco adds heft to cybersecurity push with acquisitions, new talent
July 09, 2024: With new leadership, key acquisitions, and an AI-driven, platform-based vision, Cisco is betting big on security. Its dominance in networking and telecommunications products and services is well established, but its role in cybersecurity is less cemented.
Cisco debuts CCDE-AI Infrastructure certification
June 07, 2024: Cisco announced a new certification program it says will empower IT pros to design infrastructure for AI and machine learning. The company’s new Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) AI Infrastructure certification is a vendor-agnostic, expert-level certification that will equip IT professionals with the ability to design modern AI/ML compute and networks now and as they evolve, says Par Merat, vice president of Cisco learning and certifications.
Cisco steps up observability play with Splunk tie-ins
June 07, 2024: Work has already begun to integrate Splunk, AppDynamics, and ThousandEyes as Cisco strengthens its observability lineup. At the recent Cisco Live event, execs from Cisco and Splunk detailed plans to create what they called a “unified observability experience” to help customers manage applications across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
AI takes center stage at Cisco Live
June 05, 2024: Cisco put AI front and center at its Live event, touting new networking, management and security products. CEO Chuck Robbins says the AI evolution is coming on fast, like the cloud transition on steroids. “You’re probably trying to figure out use cases, if you are haven’t already, and how you can use it,” said Robbins in his keynote address.
Cisco gears up to capitalize on Splunk deal, AI revolution
May 30, 2024: Despite a recent rough patch, Cisco has growth opportunities on multiple fronts. Its strategy starts with the $28 billion acquisition of Splunk, a bold move that adds $4 billion in annual revenue to Cisco’s roughly $55 billion base. More importantly, it creates revenue-generating opportunities across a variety of fast-growing markets: security, observability, data analytics, AIOps, and genAI.
AT&T taps Cisco fixed 5G wireless gateways for WAN service
May 30, 2024: Cisco Meraki has rolled out 5G fixed wireless access gateways, and AT&T said it will use them to offer a new service for business branch offices. The new Meraki MG cellular MG52 and MG52E gateways fill out the high-end of Meraki’s cellular gateway family and offer 2 Gbps/300Mbp throughput – which is twice the throughput of current high-end MG offerings.
Cisco research highlights network complexity, security challenges
May 22, 2024: IT leaders need more help managing and securing their distributed networking environments, Cisco asserts in its Global Networking Trends Report. “Network architectures are more sophisticated, more complex, and spread across more multi-clouds and multi-vendors than ever. IT leaders are also besieged by rising cybersecurity risks, increased demand from new app and workload types, and vastly distributed workforces and infrastructures,” said Jonathan Davidson, executive vice president and general manager of Cisco networking.
Cisco, Nutanix strengthen joint HCI package
May 16, 2024: Last year, Cisco killed its Hyperflex platform and essentially turned over that business to Nutanix. Now, Cisco and Nutanix have significantly expanded their alliance with new management capabilities, AI components and networking extensions for their integrated hyperconverged infrastructure package.
Cisco adds AI features to AppDynamics On-Premises
May 10, 2024: A new virtual appliance for Cisco’s AppDynamics observability platform will give enterprise customers more deployment options as well as AI-driven capabilities for anomaly detection and root cause analysis, application security, and SAP monitoring.
AI features boost Cisco’s Panoptica application security software
May 07, 2024: Cisco has added a variety of new AI-based security features to its cloud-native security platform that promise to help customers more quickly spot and remediate threats. The features extend the vendor’s Panoptica platform, which is designed to secure cloud applications from development to deployment with a focus on protecting containerized, microservice applications running on platforms such as Kubernetes.
Cisco, Red Hat extend networking, AI integrations
May 03, 2024: Cisco and Red Hat are expanding their 15-year-old strategic partnership, this time to bolster networking, AI and cloud integrations. At the Red Hat Summit 2024, the two vendors will demonstrate how tightly integrating Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) with Red Hat’s OpenShift can help customers improve their network operations.
Cisco-backed startup Corelight raises $150 million
May 02, 2024: Cisco is part of a group that backed security startup Corelight with $150 million in Series E funding. The new funding will enable Corelight to further develop its technology, which transforms network and cloud activity as well as packet capture into evidence that security teams use to proactively hunt for threats, accelerate response to incidents, gain network visibility, and create powerful analytics results, according to the startup.
Cisco marries AI and security with cloud-based data center offering
April 18, 2024: Cisco announces AI-based Hypershield, a self-upgrading security fabric that’s designed to protect distributed applications, devices and data.
Cisco: AI networking adds to data center sustainability challenges
April 03, 2024: Data centers are notorious energy hogs, and the increase in heavy-duty networking and compute power required to handle AI workloads is only going to exacerbate the sustainability issue. But there are efforts underway to address the growth of AI and ML in data centers while keeping energy efficiency, cooling and performance in mind.
Beware the gap between security readiness and confidence levels, Cisco warns
March 27, 2024: Security readiness among enterprises has dropped in the past year, while the confidence level of many organizations is up. This disparity between confidence levels and security readiness suggests that companies may be overestimating their ability to navigate the threat landscape, Cisco reports in its newly released Cybersecurity Readiness Index.
Cisco: AI tools, better workspaces would boost in-office appeal
March 27, 2024: Cisco released its hybrid work study and found 72% of employees are positive about returning to the office, but they want better-equipped workspaces and more modern collaboration technologies. Office spaces at many companies are too focused on individual work rather than structured around spaces that can encourage collaboration, social interaction and creative brainstorming, according to the survey, which polled 14,050 employees and 3,800 employers in 19 countries worldwide.
Cisco taps former Microsoft, Broadcom exec
March 25, 2024: Martin Lund will lead the group responsible for delivering the silicon, optics, and hardware for Cisco’s core switching, routing, and wireless offerings.
Cisco, Intel expand Wi-Fi 7 partnership
March 21, 2024: Joint development work by Cisco and Intel is aimed at delivering more reliable Wi-Fi connectivity and new capabilities for latency-sensitive applications.
Cisco aims AI advancements at data center infrastructure
March 20, 2024: The Splunk buy and Cisco’s partnership with Nvidia are part of its efforts to build data-center network infrastructure for supporting AI/ML workloads.
Cisco completes $28 billion Splunk acquisition
March 18, 2024: Cisco closed its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk, promising product innovations across its security, observability and AI portfolios with the integration of Splunk. Network security teams can use Splunk’s technology to gain better visibility into network traffic, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and SIEM systems.
Cisco Talos: 3 post-compromise tactics that threaten your network infrastructure
March 07, 2024: The bad actors who are perpetrating advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks aren’t just looking to access your network. They want to hang around to collect valuable data or lay plans for future attacks. Post-compromise threats are growing, Cisco says, and they’re aimed largely at aging network infrastructure and edge devices that are long past end-of-life stage and may have critical unpatched vulnerabilities. “… the older legacy components have more avenues for access, especially if the devices are out of support and they haven’t been updated in three or four years,” said Nick Biasini, head of outreach at Cisco’s Talos security research arm.
Cisco, partners to offer tailored IoT/OT packages
Feb. 29, 2024: Cisco has implemented a new blueprint that involves working more closely with partners to offer packages of networking and software components that meld IT elements with Internet of Things (IoT) and operational technology (OT).
Cisco to cut 5% of workforce amid restructuring; layoffs will impact 4,200 jobs
Feb. 14, 2024: After days of speculation, Cisco announced a restructuring plan that will see the networking vendor cut 5%, or about 4,200 jobs, from its 84,900 workforce as it plans to continue to focus on high-strength areas such as AI and security.
Cisco brings AI assistant to cloud app security service
Feb. 08, 2024: Cisco is launching a generative AI-based assistant to help customers handle cloud-native application security issues more quickly and efficiently. The Cisco AI Assistant for Panoptica will help businesses streamline, prioritize, and remediate risks and misconfigurations in multi-cloud environments, according to Vijoy Pandey, senior vice president of Cisco’s Outshift advanced development group.
Cisco launches Motific hub to streamline generative AI deployment
Feb. 07, 2024: Cisco is delivering a cloud-based service that gives enterprise customers a centralized hub for managing AI elements. Called Motific, the service promises to help streamline and accelerate the creation, deployment and management of generative AI-based applications for the enterprise.
Cisco, Nvidia target secure AI with expanded partnership
Feb. 06, 2024: Cisco and Nvidia have expanded their partnership to offer integrated software and networking hardware that promises to help customers more easily spin up infrastructure to support AI applications. The agreement deepens both companies’ strategy to expand the role of Ethernet networking for AI workloads in the enterprise. It also gives both companies access to each other’s sales and support systems.
Cisco, Hitachi deliver managed hybrid cloud services
Jan. 31, 2024: Cisco and Hitachi Vantara have unveiled the first fruits of their partnership, signed last year, that aims to bring managed as-a-service offerings to enterprise customers with hybrid cloud environments. The joint offering, Hitachi EverFlex with Cisco Powered Hybrid Cloud, includes a range of converged infrastructure services that meld compute, networking and software technologies from Cisco and storage capabilities from Hitachi.
Cisco looks to ease management of software agents
Jan. 26, 2024: Cisco AppDynamics rolled out a new management product that aims to take the pressure off operations teams tasked with maintaining a growing raft of application and infrastructure agents. Smart Agent for Cisco AppDynamics can help customers spot and update out-of-date software agents as well as quickly on-board and manage new agents through a centralized user interface, Cisco stated.
Cisco brings SSE technology to new Kyndryl services
Jan. 25, 2024: Kyndryl’s new managed services incorporate Cisco’s Secure Access platform, which includes zero-trust network access, secure web gateway, and firewall as a service.
Cisco, T-Mobile team to offer managed 5G service
Jan. 24, 2024: Cisco and T-Mobile have teamed to offer a managed 5G-based connectivity service for remote branches and small offices. The T-Mobile-managed package, called Connected Workplace, will make use of Cisco Meraki 5G cellular gateways as well as its network and visibility management platform. The Meraki software includes cloud-managed security features and a central Meraki dashboard for network management support. Together with T-Mobile’s unlimited nationwide business internet service, the offering will allow organizations to network everything from end users and IoT devices to point-of-sale systems and video installations.
Cisco sees headway in quantum networking, but advances are slow
Jan. 22, 2024: While core quantum networking technologies such as repeaters and photonics are being developed, it is security applications that are likely to be the first real-world developments that come out of the lab, according to Liz Centoni, executive vice president, chief strategy officer and general manager of applications at Cisco.
Cisco buy highlights container networking, security
Jan. 17, 2024: Cisco’s acquisition of startup Isovalent, developer of open-source tools Cilium and Tetragon, underscores the potential of the popular eBPF kernel technology for multicloud networking and security.
