Cisco, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
When Retail AI Meets The Store Floor
A shopper walks into a store with a specific need. Maybe they're fixing an irrigation system, planning a meal, or trying to resolve a membership issue.
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Cisco, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
Cisco Explores The Expanding Threat Landscape Of AI Security For 2026 With Its Latest Annual Report
Thank you to all of the contributors of the State of AI Security 2026, including Amy Chang, Tiffany Saade, Emile Antone, and the broader Cisco AI research team.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Why Post-Quantum Cryptography Matters For Securing Campus And Branch Networks
As quantum computing rapidly advances, it presents a profound threat to the cryptographic foundations that currently secure our digital communications. This risk is particularly pronounced in the campus and branch networks that connect a vast array of today's users, IoT and OT devices, and applications across multiple, diverse locations
more → Cisco, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
New AI repos catalog at Cisco DevNet Code Exchange
In Code Exchange, with thousands of code repositories, you can find examples created and maintained by Cisco engineering teams, community contributors, and individual developers.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Unifying The Data Center With Cisco Nexus One: The Network That Works For You
Cisco has been hard at work revitalizing its data center switching portfolio, introducing exciting new developments across the Nexus 9000 (N9000) line.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
How Safe Are GPT-OSS-Safeguard Models?
Large language models (LLMs) have become essential tools for organizations, with open weight models providing additional control and flexibility for customizing models to their specific use cases. Last year, OpenAI released its gpt-oss series, including standard and, shortly after, safeguard variants, focused on safety classification tasks.
more → Cisco, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
SRv6: From 5G Networks To AI Infrastructure - A Journey Of Innovation
In the fast-paced world of network infrastructure, few technologies have proven as transformative as Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6). What started as a means to simplify service provider networks and support 5G rollouts has now become important for handling today's most challenging artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.
more → Cisco, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Changes to TLS clientAuth Certificates: Ensuring You're Not Impacted
Cisco customers and partners who use Cisco equipment and services must be aware of important upcoming changes to public TLS certificates used for client authentication, driven by browser security policies such as those from Google Chrome.
more → Cisco, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
What OpenAI's Enterprise AI Report Reveals - and What It Means for Your Enterprise Network
When OpenAI publishes a report grounded in real enterprise usage, it's worth paying attention. The data doesn't just predict the future; it documents how today's enterprise networks are already being reshaped.
more → Cisco, Monday, February 16th, 2026
Cisco Targets VMware Dependency With Narrowly Focused Hypervisor
Cisco is preparing to introduce its own hypervisor, offering customers a path away from VMware as licensing changes under Broadcom prompt disgruntled customers to seek alternatives.
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Cisco, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Making The Case For Cisco N9000 For Front-End & Back-End Networks
Cisco has done significant work in the past year to upgrade its Nexus data center switching portfolio for the AI era. Cisco N9000 Series Switches have adopted the benefits to include operational resiliency, security, and management features needed to sustain the high demands of today's networking for AI.
more → Cisco, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Accelerate Security Operations With Cisco's New Security-Tuned Model
We are announcing the availability of a new custom-tuned Foundation-Sec-8B-1.1-Instruct model that powers a key integration between Cisco Foundation AI and the Splunk AI Assistant in Security in Splunk Enterprise Security.
more → Cisco, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
IP Is Better Than Ever With Integrated Performance Measurement
The digital world is built on connectivity. From streaming your favorite shows to the intricate dance of IoT sensors and the demanding workloads in the cloud, the network is the invisible, persistent presence that powers everything.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
Accelerating The Future Of AI Networking And Data Center Modernization
As the digital world races forward, the demand for seamless AI networking and modernized data center operations has never been higher.
more → Cisco, Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
Cisco Targets High-Speed AI Networking With 102.4Tbps Chip, Liquid-Cooled Switches
Cisco Systems Inc.introduced a new generation of networking silicon, systems and optical modules aimed at supporting hyperscale-class artificial intelligence infrastructure as AI workloads shift from model training toward broader inference and agentic applications.
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Cisco, Friday, February 6th, 2026
AI Readiness: Preparing Your Network For Scale Starting With AI Network Assessment Reporting By NetOp AI
IT teams are moving quickly to support the rapidly evolving network landscape required to support current and upcoming AI-based initiatives. As organizations accelerate AI adoption, unsupported hardware creates operational risk, performance degradation, and security exposure making proactive modernization a foundational step towards AI-Readiness.
more → Cisco, Thursday, February 5th, 2026
Trust, Infrastructure, And The Real Work Of Scaling Agentic Ai
At the Cisco AI Summit, Cisco convened enterprise, government, and ecosystem leaders to have a candid, non-sales discussion about what it actually takes to deploy AI at scale. The event focused on trust, infrastructure readiness, agentic operations, and governance as the gating factors for moving AI from pilots in 2025 to measurable ROI and production impact in 2026.
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Cisco, Thursday, February 5th, 2026
Facing the Quantum Threat: Cisco's Strategic Approach to PQC
Imagine a future where today's most secure data, from financial records to national secrets, could be instantly deciphered. This isn't science fiction; it's the emerging reality of quantum computing.
more → Cisco, Thursday, February 5th, 2026
Cisco Deep Network Model: Purpose Built Intelligence For Networking
Network operations are dominated by structured telemetry, long configuration states, time series at scale, and investigations that sprawl across devices, sites, and domains. The practical constraint is not whether an AI model can answer a networking question in isolation.
more → Cisco, Thursday, February 5th, 2026
Cisco AI Summit 2026: From AI Possibility To AI Reality
I had the good fortune to attend the Cisco AI Summit 2026 in San Francisco this week. The event brought together policymakers, technologists, investors, and enterprise leaders to examine how artificial intelligence is moving from experimentation to large-scale operational impact. Unlike many AI-focused events centered on model performance or speculative futures, this summit emphasized execution, governance, infrastructure readiness, and workforce transformation.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
The Domains And Organizational Functions Of AI Security
When your CISO mentions 'AI security' in the next board meeting, what exactly do they mean? Are they talking about protecting your AI systems from attacks? Using AI to catch hackers? Preventing employees from leaking data to an unapproved AI service? Ensuring your AI doesn't produce harmful outputs?
more → Cisco, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
Cloud, On-Premises, Hybrid Networks: How To Choose The Right Management Solution
Running a network today often means reacting to alerts, chasing issues across sites, and switching between tools just to understand what's happening. When visibility is fragmented, day-to-day operations suffer: mean time to resolution (MTTR) increases, more IT resources get pulled into investigations, and escalations rise as your IT teams spend valuable time stitching together context across environments.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
Cisco AI Summit 2026: Making Agentic Systems Real, Breaking Physical Barriers And Operationalizing AI
The Cisco AI Summit 2026 was a gift to the industry. There was no registration page, no product announcements, only very subtle Cisco marketing and some really excellent and unscripted conversations. All open. All free.
more → Cisco, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
Analytics Context Engineering For LLM
Machine data underpins observability and diagnosis in modern computing systems, including logs, metrics, telemetry traces, configuration snapshots, and API response payloads.
more → Cisco, Thursday, January 29th, 2026
Introducing The PEAK Threat Hunting Assistant: Agentic AI to Supercharge Your Hunt
Threat hunting is a critical, proactive strategy to uncover hidden threats and drive security improvement, yet security teams are busy, and even the most seasoned hunters face time and resource constraints.
more → Cisco, Thursday, January 29th, 2026
Foundation-Sec-8B-Reasoning: The First Open-Weight Security Reasoning Model
Today marks another milestone in Cisco's commitment to advancing AI-native cybersecurity. Following the success of Foundation-sec-8B and Foundation-sec-8B-Instruct, the Foundation AI team is proud to announce the public release of Llama-3.1-FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-8B-Reasoning (Foundation-sec-8B- Reasoning), now available on Hugging Face.
more → Cisco, Thursday, January 29th, 2026
AI Search Framework That Teaches AI Models To Think Like Experts
For researchers, analysts, and security professionals alike, the ability to quickly and accurately retrieve relevant information is critical. Yet, as our information landscape grows, so do the challenges of traditional search methods.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
Delivering Resilient Mission-Critical Communications For Demanding Industries
In sectors like defense, manufacturing, shipping, and mining, delivering resilient, always-on, mission-critical communications is a tough challenge. Assets and teams may be constantly moving.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
Personal AI Agents Like OpenClaw Are A Security Nightmare
Over the past few weeks, Clawdbot (then renamed Moltbot, later renamed OpenClaw) has achieved virality as an open source, self-hosted personal AI assistant agent that runs locally and executes actions on the user's behalf.
more → Cisco, Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
Transforming Service Delivery: The Power Of Strategic Network Automation
Communication service providers (CSPs) navigate a dynamic landscape where success requires delivering more value while optimizing resources and exceeding customer expectations. Your networks must handle explosive data growth and service proliferation while meeting customer demand for premium experiences and smooth connectivity.
more → Cisco, Monday, January 26th, 2026
Privacy And Data Governance - Keys To Innovation And Trust In The AI Era
As we navigate an increasingly interconnected world, the conversation around privacy and data governance continues to evolve at a breathtaking pace. At Cisco, we've always viewed privacy as a fundamental human right and a business imperative - not just a compliance checkbox.
more → RCR Wireless News, Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
Three Reasons 2026 Is Wi-Fi 7's Breakout Year, According To Cisco
Wi-Fi 7 has been on the roadmap for years, but widespread adoption has lagged behind expectations (most notably in the U.S.). Now, though, Cisco believes the timing has finally aligned. According to Cisco CTO Matt MacPherson, 2026 could mark a turning point for the technology as market conditions, deployment readiness, and customer demand begin to converge.
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Cisco, Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
Cisco URWB: Powering Industrial AI & Automation on the Factory Floor
Today's factory floors are buzzing with innovation, driven by artificial intelligence, automation, and hyper-automation. From autonomous vehicles gracefully navigating warehouses to vertical farms growing crops with unprecedented precision, the industrial landscape is undergoing a radical transformation. But behind every smart robot and every AI-powered system lies a crucial, often invisible, hero: the network.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
What Reviewing 500+ AI System Evaluations Reveals About Enterprise Readiness
Over the past year, I evaluated more than 500 AI and enterprise technology submissions across industry awards, academic review forums, and professional certification bodies. At that scale, patterns emerge quickly.
more → Cisco, Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
Safeguard Your WAN From Quantum Computing Threats
Quantum computing is a present-day reality that's changing cybersecurity in fundamental ways. The encryption protecting our most sensitive data today won't stand a chance against powerful quantum attacks.
more → Networkworld, Sunday, January 11th, 2026
AI, Edge, And Security: Shaping The Need For Modern Infrastructure Management
Forrester Consulting study finds that organizations have faced six key challenges with traditional IT management tools and quantifies the tangible benefits of a comprehensive, cloud-native platform.
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Cisco, Thursday, January 8th, 2026
Three Benefits Of Segmentation
In my last two blogs, I delved into the results of the 2025 Cisco Segmentation Report to highlight the importance of macro- and micro-segmentation and to identify the primary challenges hindering segmentation journeys.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
Future-Proof Your Data Center For AI A Checklist For Designing And Building AI Data Centers
AI workloads are fundamentally different from traditional enterprise applications. Training and inference at scale introduce sustained high-density compute, extreme east-west traffic, and unprecedented power and cooling demands. For many organizations, this is not an upgrade cycle - it is a structural redesign.
more → Cisco, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Neocloud Providers Are Making Waves - And Cisco Is Helping Them Do It
The rapid adoption of generative AI and agentic AI is spurring demand for AI infrastructure and the need for a rich ecosystem that can deliver the complete AI lifecycle. In this environment, a new breed of AI cloud providers-often referred to as neoclouds-has emerged as agile, technically sophisticated players building highly specialized AI cloud services to serve new markets and needs.
more → Cisco, Monday, December 22nd, 2025
The Cisco Catalyst Powering Our Future
Josh Warcop recently shared an insightful update on the transformative impact of the Cisco Catalyst series on network infrastructure.
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Cisco, December 11,2025
The Segmentation Cycle: A Practical Approach To Network Security
In today's landscape, organizations of all sizes are increasingly adopting the default assumption that adversaries may already be persistent within their networks. This pragmatic perspective underscores the critical need and inherent value of an active segmentation program.
more → Tech Field Day, December 8,2025
Cisco AI Networking Cluster Operations Deep Dive
In this brief article, Steve Puluka summarizes Cisco's AI Networking Cluster Operations, showcasing how advanced artificial intelligence is integrated into Cisco's network operations to enhance efficiency and analytics.
more → Cisco, Thursday, December 4th, 2025
Cisco AI Networking Vision And Operational Strategies
Steve Puluka provides a quick review of Cisco's Networking Field Day 39 presentation on AI networking vision and operational strategies, showcasing how AI integration is poised to transform network management and efficiency.
more → Cisco, Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
Mitigate Cyber Threats By Uncovering The Paths Into Your System
In any crime investigation, it's important to leave no stone unturned. The same holds true for cybercrime.
more → Cisco, Monday, November 24th, 2025
Operationalizing AI: How To Move From Lab To Production Faster
The pressure for enterprises to deploy generative AI is undeniable, with 80% of leaders feeling increased urgency.
more → Cisco, Monday, November 24th, 2025
A Glimpse Into Cisco Mobile Infrastructure Security Developments
5G is no longer an idea. It is here, and it is reshaping how service providers build, operate, and secure their networks. Workloads are moving to the edge, latency is becoming critical, and achieving flexible, adaptive security has never been more challenging.
more → Tech Field Days, Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
Cisco Handles AI Datacenter Flows
Peter J. Welcher provides a comprehensive analysis of how Cisco is adapting its strategies to manage AI-driven data flows within datacenters, showcasing the evolution of network technologies to meet advanced computing demands.
more → Cisco, Thursday, November 13th, 2025
New Cisco Secure Access Python SDK
Security developers and network engineers usually find it easier to use SDKs. The SDK implements authentication and usage best practices, handles errors, and provides information about missing parameters.
more → Cisco, November 12,2025
A Newbie's Perspective: From Curiosity To Confidence, My SOC Story
Stepping into a Security Operations Centre (SOC) at Cisco Live Melbourne for the first time was an experience charged with excitement and slightly nervous.
more → Cisco, Monday, November 10th, 2025
Cisco Delivers AI Innovations Across Neocloud, Enterprise and Telecom with Nvidia
Advancements to accelerate secure, scalable AI across market segments
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