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Accelerate Security Operations with Cisco’s New Security-Tuned Model

Explore a new frontier in LLM quality and speed. Cisco’s Foundation-Sec model delivers high-performance AI summaries for Splunk Security Operations workflows.

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Double Defense: Cisco Secure Firewall 10.0 Confronts Encrypted Traffic and Emerging Attack Challenges

Discover how Cisco Secure Firewall 10.0 boosts visibility and protection against modern threats, from encrypted attacks to AI-driven exploits.

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Redefining Security for the Agentic Era

The agentic era is here. As AI agents act autonomously at machine speed, learn why security must evolve with intent-aware controls to make autonomous systems safe, accountable, and reliable.

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Integrating With Cisco XDR at Black Hat Europe

Investigating indicators of compromise (IOCs) requires a unified view of security data. See how we integrated Cisco XDR with third-party tools and open-source models at Black Hat Europe.

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Black Hat Europe: Enhancing Security Operations With Cisco XDR and Foundation-sec-8b-Instruct LLM

Manual triage often slows down incident response. Learn how we integrated an 8-billion parameter security LLM into Cisco XDR to summarize alerts and trace attack paths in real time.

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Black Hat Europe 2025: A Decade of Cisco Security Cloud Innovation

Building a secure network for thousands of cybersecurity experts in just three days requires intense collaboration. Discover the hardware, software, and engineering behind the Black Hat Europe NOC.

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Black Hat Europe 2025: Firepower IDS Flags Unwanted P2P on Rented Gear

Rented hardware often carries digital baggage from previous users. Discover how our NOC team used JA3 fingerprints and Cisco XDR to track down unauthorized P2P syncing in London.

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Securing DNS With Secure Access at Black Hat Europe

For a decade, Cisco has secured Black Hat events with DNS security. Learn how the evolution to Cisco Secure Access provided visibility into 66 million queries and 6,000 unique apps in London.

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Lessons Learned from Securing the World’s Largest Cyber Events

Announcing the launch of the Cisco Event SOCs website and the release of our comprehensive Reference Architecture & Operations Guide.

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AI search framework that teaches AI models to think like experts

Cisco Foundation AI introduces AI search framework for more efficient search by models

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Foundation-sec-8B-Reasoning: The First Open-weight Security Reasoning Model

Cisco Foundation AI introduces the first open-weight reasoning model for security.

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Introducing The PEAK Threat Hunting Assistant: Agentic AI to Supercharge Your Hunt

Learn about the PEAK Threat Hunting Assistant, introduced by Cisco Foundation AI

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Cisco Foundation AI Advances Agentic Security Systems for the AI Era

Cisco Foundation AI is building agentic security for the AI era

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Privacy and Data Governance — Keys to Innovation and Trust in the AI Era

Cisco 2026 Data and Privacy Benchmark Study shares insights into how privacy unlocks competitive advantage for business growth and builds trust in AI era.

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A Newbie’s Perspective: From Curiosity to Confidence, My SOC Story

A new analyst shares their Cisco Live SOC experience, covering quick onboarding, using Cisco XDR and Endace for incident investigation, and building confidence in threat response.

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Have You Seen My Domain Controller?

Windows clients expose Active Directory DNS queries on public Wi-Fi, risking OSINT and credential leaks. Learn from Cisco Live SOC observations how to protect clients with VPNs .

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Splunk in Action: From SPL to PCAP

Learn how Cisco Live SOC uses Splunk SPL and Endace PCAP to investigate exposed HTTP authentication and Kerberos activity, securing sensitive data on public Wi-Fi networks.

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Cisco Live Melbourne 2025 SOC

Cisco Security and Splunk protected Cisco Live Melbourne 2025 in the Security Operations Centre. Learn about the latest innovations for the SOC of the Future.

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Cisco Live Melbourne Case Study: Cisco Live TMC Experience and DDoS

Explore a Cisco TME's experience in the Cisco Live SOC, detailing efficient onboarding, incident escalation, and a real-world DDoS attack investigation and response.

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Cisco Security Cloud Control to Help MSPs Securely Onboard Customers

Cisco Security Cloud Control introduces multi-customer management for MSPs, streamlining operations and automating deployments for better security outcomes.

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Canadian Bacon Cybersecurity: SharePoint Vulnerabilities and Vulnerabilities in General

Learn about the Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability and which steps you can take to mitigate the effects of this — and other — vulnerabilities.

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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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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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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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Simplifying Decryption With Cisco’s Secure Firewall 7.7

Simplify decryption with Cisco Secure Firewall 7.7! Intelligent bypass, enhanced wizard & more for optimized security & performance.

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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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The 90-5-5 Concept: Your Key to Solving Human Risk in Cybersecurity

Most breaches are caused by everyday human mistakes. The 90-5-5 Concept is a framework that addresses this by shifting the conversation to proactive design.

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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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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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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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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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Embracing the Quantum Era: Navigating the Quantum Shift With PQC

Discover how post-quantum cryptography protects data in the quantum era, addressing challenges and strategies for a secure digital future.

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Mobile World Congress 2025: SOC in the Network Operations Center

Cisco is the sole supplier of network services to Mobile World Congress, expanding into security and observability, with Splunk.

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Meet the Cybersecurity Defender of 2025 for EMEA

Cisco's 2025 EMEA Cybersecurity Defender of the Year award goes to the team at SAP Enterprise Cloud Services, who raised the bar for overall security posture.

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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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Black Hat Europe 2024 NOC/SOC: Security Cloud

Cisco is the Official Security Cloud Provider for the Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC). We work with the other official partners to bring the hardware, software and engineers to build and secure the network, for our joint customer: Black Hat.  Arista: Wired and Wireless Network Equipment  Corelight: Open Network Detection and Response  Palo Alto […]

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Password Advice for the Rest of Us

Passwords are a problem and it’s hard to make a good one. So what can you do? Make them long, make them random, and maybe use a password manager.

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Unifying Cyber Defenses: How Hybrid Mesh Firewalls Shape Modern Security

Hybrid mesh firewall platforms enable security policy enforcement between workloads and users across any network, especially in on prem-first organizations.

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Enabling Cybersecurity Incident Response

Universities need advanced security architectures for effective incident response. Discover how XDR solutions enhance visibility and resilience in complex tech landscapes.

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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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Forrester Names Cisco a Leader in OT Security

Securing industrial networks is top of mind. Cisco’s comprehensive OT security solution and unified IT/OT security platform is a Leader according to Forrester. Learn what makes Cisco stand apart in this market.

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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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Black Hat Asia 2024 NOC: Cisco Security Cloud

Protecting Black Hat Asia NOC with Cisco Security Cloud

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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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Cisco and Nvidia: Redefining Workload Security

There has been an exponential increase in breaches within enterprises despite the carefully constructed and controlled perimeters that exist around applications and data. Once an attacker can access… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Network Resilience: Accelerating Efforts to Protect Critical Infrastructure

As head of the Cisco Trust Office, Matt Fussa leads a global team that partners with government agencies, regulators, and customers to help shape cybersecurity regulation and manage cyber risk. He is… Read more on Cisco Blogs