Cisco Redefines Cybersecurity Defense with Powerful, Portfolio-Wide AI Capabilities
Cisco, the leader in enterprise networking and security, today unveiled
the Cisco AI Assistant for Security. This marks a major step in making
artificial intelligence (AI) pervasive in the Security Cloud, Cisco's unified,
AI-driven, cross-domain security platform. The AI Assistant will help customers
make informed decisions, augment their tool capabilities and automate complex
tasks.
“To be an AI-first company, you must be a data-first company. With our
extensive native telemetry, Cisco is uniquely positioned to deliver
cybersecurity solutions that allow businesses to confidently operate at machine
scale, augmenting what humans can do alone,” said Jeetu
Patel, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and
Collaboration at Cisco. “Today’s announcement is a
monumental step forward. This advancement will help tip the scales in favor of
defenders, empowering customers with AI built pervasively throughout the Cisco
Security Cloud.”
As cyber-attacks continue to evolve, organizations’ defenses must,
too. Ransomware and extortion attacks continue to persist at a steady pace,
making up 20 percent of Cisco Talos Incident Response engagements this year,
according to the new Cisco Talos 2023 Year in
Review Report. Talos also observed an increase in sophisticated
attacks on networking devices this past year, particularly by state-sponsored
actors. The increased speed and sophistication of malicious actors requires the
adoption of machine-scale defenses.
With unmatched visibility across the network and security, Cisco works
with more machine-driven telemetry and on a scale larger than most in the
industry. The new Cisco AI Assistant for Security is trained on one of the
largest security-focused data sets in the world, which analyzes more than 550
billion security events each day across web, email, endpoints, networks and
applications. It can understand event triage, impact and scope, root cause
analysis and policy design. With this data, the AI Assistant aims to close the
gap between cybersecurity intent and outcomes. All of Cisco’s AI capabilities
are built securely and align with Cisco’s Responsible AI
Framework.
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