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Why a Unified Email Security Platform is Your Best Defense

Email Threat Defense’s enhanced capabilities integrate gateway-level prevention with supplemental, API-based post-delivery remediation.

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Empower AI Innovation: On-Demand AI Data Center Access With Cisco SD-WAN

AI has transformed everyday experiences—from your phone instantly translating a foreign language to your smart assistant finding the fastest route home. Just as these devices connect you to the world in a split second, businesses now require on-demand, high-performance access to a rapidly expanding global AI ecosystem. This seamless, real-time connectivity is becoming the new […]

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Rethinking AI Security: The Dynamic Context Firewall for MCP

A Dynamic Context Firewall (DCF) for Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a proposed, context-aware security layer that protects AI agent interactions.

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From AIOps to AgenticOps: The Autonomous Evolution of Firewall Operations

Discover how Cisco is redefining firewall operations through autonomous AI-driven management, predictive analytics, and self-healing security.

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Zero Trust in the Era of Agentic AI

AI agents use the same networking infrastructure as users and apps. So security solutions like zero trust should evolve to protect agentic AI communications.

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Detecting Exposed LLM Servers: A Shodan Case Study on Ollama

We uncovered 1,100+ exposed Ollama LLM servers—20% with open models—revealing critical security gaps and the need for better LLM threat monitoring.

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Foundation-sec-8B-Instruct: An Out-of-the-Box Security Copilot

Foundation-sec-8B-Instruct layers instruction fine-tuning on top of our domain-focused base model, giving you a chat-native copilotthat understands security.

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Cisco’s Foundation AI Advances AI Supply Chain Security With Hugging Face

Cisco's Foundation AI is partnering with Hugging Face, bringing together the world's leading AI model hub with Cisco's security expertise.

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Cisco delivers enhanced email protection to the Middle East

Cisco's new data center in the UAE delivers in-region reliability and increased protection to organizations in the Middle East.

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Email Threat Defense earns AAA rating in SE Labs latest evaluation

SE Labs research identifies the many ways Email Threat Defense successfully defends against advanced email threats in real time to earn the highest rating.

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Securing an Exponentially Growing (AI) Supply Chain

Foundation AI's Cerberus is a 24/7 guard for the AI supply chain, analyzing models as they enter HuggingFace and sharing results to Cisco Security products.

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Cisco Contributes to Cyber Hard Problems Report

Cisco contributes to the latest edition of the Cyber Hard Problems report, highlighting 10 foundational security challenges facing the modern world.

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Secure Your Business With Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall Solutions

Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall provides advanced security for hybrid cloud environments, remote workforces, and AI-powered innovations.

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Brand impersonation at scale: How lookalike domains bypass traditional defenses

With more than 30K lookalike domains identified in 2024, organizations need the visibility and context to detect and respond to threats. Learn how to do that.

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Redefining Zero Trust in the Age of AI Agents and Agentic Workflows

AI-powered threats demand intent-based security. Cisco's Semantic Inspection Proxy redefines zero trust by analyzing agent behavior, ensuring semantic verification.

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Making Agentic AI Work in the Real World

Cisco is extending the principles of zero trust to Agentic AI. Cisco's Universal Zero Trust Network architecture gives you the tools you need.

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Foundation-sec-8b-reasoning: World’s First Security Reasoning Model

Foundation AI's second release—Foundation-sec-8b-reasoning is designed to designed to bring enhanced analytical capabilities to complex security workflows.

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Developing With Cisco XDR at Cisco Live San Diego ‘25

Join us at Cisco Live San Diego to explore Cisco XDR’s latest innovations, including custom integrations, AI automation, and community features. Don’t miss out!

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Market-Inspired GPU Allocation in AI Workloads: A Cybersecurity Use Case

Learn how a self-adaptive GPU allocation framework that dynamically manages the computational needs of AI workloads of different assets/systems.

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AI Agent for Color Red

AI can automate the analysis, generation, testing, and reporting of exploits. It's particularly relevant in penetration testing and ethical hacking scenarios.

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Instant Attack Verification: Verification to Trust Automated Response

Discover how Cisco XDR’s Instant Attack Verification brings real-time threat validation for faster, smarter SOC response.

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Foundation-sec-8b: Cisco Foundation AI’s First Open-Source Security Model

Foundation AI's first release — Llama-3.1-FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-base-8B — is designed to improve response time, expand capacity, and proactively reduce risk.

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Foundation AI: Robust Intelligence for Cybersecurity

Foundation AI is a Cisco organization dedicated to bridging the gap between the promise of AI and its practical application in cybersecurity.

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Cisco XDR Just Changed the Game, Again

Clear verdict. Decisive action. AI speed. Cisco XDR turns noise into clarity and alerts into action—enabling confident, timely response at scale.

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Does Your SSE Understand User Intent?

Enterprises face several challenges to secure access to AI models and chatbots. Cisco Secure Access extends the security perimeter to address these challenges.

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From Deployment to Visibility: Cisco Secure Client’s Cloud Transformation

Cisco Secure Client can now be deployed and managed via Client Management in Cisco XDR.

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Sign Up for a Tour at the SOC at RSAC™ 2025 Conference

Cisco and Endace provide Security Operations Center services at RSAC™ 2025 Conference. Sign up for a tour and see what happens in the SOC.

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From Firewalls to AI: The Evolution of Real-Time Cyber Defense

Explore how AI is transforming cyber defense, evolving from traditional firewalls to real-time intrusion detection systems.

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Unlocking the Privacy Advantage to Build Trust in the Age of AI

The Cisco 2025 Data Privacy Benchmark Study offers insights into the evolving privacy landscape and privacy’s critical role in an AI-centric world.

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Cisco Co-Authors Update to the NIST Adversarial Machine Learning Taxonomy

Cisco and the UK AI Security Institute partnered with NIST to release the latest update to the Adversarial Machine Learning Taxonomy.

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Cisco Introduces the State of AI Security Report for 2025: Key Developments, Trends, and Predictions in AI Security

Cisco is proud to share the State of AI Security report covering key developments in AI security across threat intelligence, policy, and research.

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Redefining Security Management in a Hyperconnected World

Cisco is bringing Secure Workload, Secure Access, and AI Defense into Security Cloud control, enhancing its capabilities and providing comprehensive management.

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AI Threat Intelligence Roundup: February 2025

AI threat research is a fundamental part of Cisco’s approach to AI security. Our roundups highlight new findings from both original and third-party sources.

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Achieve Transformative Network Security With Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall

Hybrid Mesh Firewall addresses 3 forces: Fine-grained composition & distribution of apps in data centers, complex modern networks & sophisticated threats.

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Cisco and Wiz Collaborate to Enhance Cloud Security: Tackling AI-Generating Threats in Complex IT Infrastructures

Cisco is collaborating with Wiz. Together, they aim to improve cloud security for enterprises grappling with AI-generated threats in intricate IT landscapes.

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AI Cyber Threat Intelligence Roundup: January 2025

AI threat research is a fundamental part of Cisco’s approach to AI security. Our roundups highlight new findings from both original and third-party sources.

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Evaluating Security Risk in DeepSeek and Other Frontier Reasoning Models

The performance of DeepSeek models has made a clear impact, but are these models safe and secure? We use algorithmic AI vulnerability testing to find out.

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Harnessing AI to Simplify Cloud Configuration Drift Detection

Explore how AI-driven solutions can proactively identify configuration drifts, enhance cloud security, and ensure compliance efficiently.

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Simplifying Zero Trust Security for the Modern Workplace

Cisco’s User Protection Suite now includes Identity Services Engine (ISE), enabling organizations to achieve zero trust for the workplace.

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Cisco AI Defense: Comprehensive Security for Enterprise AI Adoption

Cisco AI Defense is a single, end-to-end solution that helps your organization understand and mitigate risk on both the user and application levels.

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Advancing AI Security and Contributing to CISA’s JCDC AI Efforts 

Discover how CISA's new AI Security Incident Collaboration Playbook strengthens AI security and resilience.

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Strengthening Docker Security: Best Practices for Resilient Containers

Docker's proliferation has led to some serious vulnerabilities, but you can improve security in Docker containers by following a set of best practices.

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Robust Intelligence, Now Part of Cisco, Recognized as a 2024 Gartner® Cool Vendor™ for AI Security

Cisco is excited that Robust Intelligence, a recently acquired AI security startup, is mentioned in the 2024 Gartner Cool Vendors for AI Security report.

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Trust Through Transparency: Regulation’s Role in Consumer Confidence

The Cisco 2024 Consumer Privacy Survey highlights awareness and attitudes regarding personal data, legislation, Gen AI and data localization requirements.

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Quality is Priority Zero, Especially for Security

Security software can be the first line of defense or the last, and the cost of failure is catastrophic. That's why quality is priority zero for Cisco.

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Catch Sneaky Images in Email

Image-based fraud in email can be challenging to detect and prevent. By leveraging AI, security teams can make inboxes more secure.

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Delivering Modernized Security for Government Agencies: The Vital Role of FedRAMP

Cisco has been helping government agencies address their unique security and compliance challenges for decades. We continue to progress with FedRAMP.

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Introducing Cisco’s AI Security Best Practice Portal

Cisco's AI Security Portal contains resources to help you secure your AI implementation, whether you're a seasoned professional or new to the field.

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Introducing the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI)

Announcing the launch of the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) to help securely build, deploy, and operate AI systems to mitigate AI-specific security risks.

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Stopping Supply Chain Attacks with Cisco’s User Protection Suite

Learn about how Cisco’s User Protection Suite can stop supply chain attacks and protect users.

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Digital Forensics for Investigating the Metaverse

Exploring the Metaverse? Discover its hidden cybersecurity risks and stay protected. Dive into the evolving world of virtual reality with us, where we uncover and tackle the security challenges of tomorrow

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Enhancing AI Security Incident Response Through Collaborative Exercises

Take-aways from a tabletop exercise led by CISA's Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC), which brought together government and industry leaders to enhance our collective ability to respond to AI-related security incidents.

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Security, the cloud, and AI: building powerful outcomes while simplifying your experience

Read how Cisco Security Cloud Control prioritizes consolidation of tools and simplification of security policy without compromising your defense.

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Cisco Security at Cisco Live 2024: Innovating at Scale

No matter how reliable and performant your network is, it doesn’t matter if it’s not secure. To help make the world a safer place, we need to reimagine security.

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Managing Firewall complexity and Augmenting Effectiveness with AIOps for Cisco Firewall

Explore how AIOps revolutionizes Cisco Firewall management, enhancing security, reducing downtime, and maximizing ROI with intelligent, automated solutions.

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Email Security Reinvented: How AI is Revolutionizing Digital Defense

Explore the many ways that Secure Email Threat Defense leverages sophisticated AI and ML to protect against advanced threats.

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Empowering Cybersecurity with AI: The Future of Cisco XDR

Learn how the Cisco AI Assistant in XDR adds powerful functionality to Cisco XDR that increases defenders efficiency and accuracy.

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Cisco Hypershield: A New Era of Distributed, AI-Native Security

Cisco Hypershield is a distributed, AI-native system that puts security in every software component of every app on your network, on every server, and in your public and private clouds.

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Cisco Hypershield: Reimagining Security

Cisco Hypershield is a new security infrastructure — a fabric — that can autonomously create defenses and produce measured responses to detected attacks, making security defenders' jobs easier.

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Cryptocurrency and Blockchain security due diligence: A guide to hedge risk

Blockchain technology has experienced remarkable adoption in recent years, driven by its use across a broad spectrum of institutions, governments, retail investors, and users. However, this surge in… Read more on Cisco Blogs