Overview
- Cisco updated AI Defense with adaptive red teaming and a natural-language Policy Studio that lets teams simulate custom attacks and build context-aware guardrails for individual agents.
- AI Defense now auto-discovers agents' full dependency graphs, catalogs assets in a central AI inventory, and allows developers to run vulnerability scans from CI/CD pipelines.
- Cisco placed Cisco Cloud Control in controlled availability as a single AgenticOps control plane using AI Canvas for orchestration and telemetry, with a planned Cloud Control Studio for low-code agent building later this year.
- The company previewed Network Actions, including an alpha digital twin and a next-generation switch/router platform to support network-specific agent controls, with a beta planned soon.
- Cisco says the tools are platform-agnostic and integrate with major clouds, agent frameworks, NVIDIA, and 50+ partners, but analysts warn fierce vendor competition and the need to build multi-vendor trust before broad enterprise adoption.