{"id":59368,"date":"2026-06-02T15:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/59368\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:35:14","slug":"cisco-unveils-agentic-platform-for-operating-and-defending-critical-it-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/59368\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Unveils Agentic Platform for Operating and Defending Critical IT Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Cisco_Logo.jpg\" alt=\"Cisco logo\" width=\"151\" height=\"80\"\/><br \/>\n Cisco Cloud Control brings together human operators and trusted AI agents to run the world\u2019s most critical systems<\/p>\n<p>Cisco Cloud Control\u00a0is a unified platform built for humans and AI agents to run critical IT infrastructure together. It brings Cisco platforms together and advances Cisco\u2019s AgenticOps vision, allowing customers to build their own apps and agents in natural language, and extending to third-party tools.<\/p>\n<p>With AI accelerating the window between vulnerability and exploit from weeks to minutes, Cisco announces several security innovations, including the expansion of\u00a0Live Protect\u00a0to shield more Cisco products from new vulnerabilities at runtime \u2013 no reboots, no upgrades, no downtime.<\/p>\n<p>New Cisco IQ capabilities\u00a0help customers build long-term resilience against tomorrow\u2019s threats.\u00a0Resilient Infrastructure Services\u00a0helps customers stay ahead of frontier model risk, while the new\u00a0Quantum Ready Assessments\u00a0identify the assets most exposed to \u201charvest now, decrypt later\u201d attacks \u2013 and where to start.<\/p>\n<p>In an agentic AI world, organizations must act and defend at machine speed and scale.\u00a0Cisco Cloud Control, unveiled at Cisco Live, is a unified platform built for humans and AI agents to manage, monitor and defend critical IT infrastructure \u2014 and the foundation for Cisco\u2019s AgenticOps operating model.<\/p>\n<p>With one login, Cisco Cloud Control delivers a single view of Cisco networking, security, compute, observability, and collaboration in one secure environment. People and agents work from a single data layer, sharing the same operational context and the same system of action, while humans stay in control. Customers can build their own applications and agents using natural language directly within the platform, which also connects to a large ecosystem, including AWS, Linear, Microsoft, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Slack, and Google Cloud, which now includes Wiz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI agents reason and act continuously at software speed, and that changes everything about how we scale, manage, and defend our critical infrastructure,\u201d said Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco. \u201cCisco Cloud Control is a command center for agentic AI: a platform where your team and your AI agents work together, in the same environment, with the same information, and with humans in control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One platform for humans and agents to run the agentic enterprise<\/p>\n<p>Cisco Cloud Control\u00a0is the single management plane that brings a customer\u2019s entire estate into one environment \u2014 one login, one view. It\u2019s a new way to run critical infrastructure that ties together:<\/p>\n<p>Cross-domain telemetry.\u00a0The rich data flowing across networking, security, observability, collaboration, and more \u2014 comes together in Cloud Control so humans and agents can act on the same information to address key business imperatives like uptime, agent behavior, and tokenomics.<\/p>\n<p>Purpose-built models.\u00a0Cloud Control reasons across complex problems with the right mix of purpose-built and frontier models \u2014 including Cisco\u2019s Deep Network Model, grounded in 40 years of Cisco operational networking data. The result is system intelligence that scales with the complexity of the problem, not the size of the model alone.<\/p>\n<p>Trusted agents.\u00a0Through Cisco Cloud Control, operators will be able to work with autonomous agents that can follow a structured path from signal to action: spotting trouble, identifying causes, carrying out fixes, testing changes before deployment, and confirming the user experience has recovered. These agents will be powered by Cisco telemetry and purpose-built models, and they will leverage other capabilities, such as Expanded Experience Metrics, Deep Reasoning, Digital Twin, and Cisco Agentic Workflows. Teams will be able to automate network ops with an\u00a0agentic loop, while keeping actions visible and governed.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco AI Canvas.\u00a0A multiplayer, generative workspace where operators and agents work from the same live evidence to investigate and resolve complex issues together in real time. Context persists across shifts and escalations, so nothing is lost, and nothing is repeated.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud Control Studio.\u00a0The design space that unlocks two customization environments.\u00a0Agent Builder\u00a0lets customers build agents for Cloud Control tailored to their own policies and workflows, with the ability to connect to more than 50+ third-party platforms and tools through native connectors or the open Model Context Protocol (MCP).\u00a0App Builder\u00a0lets customers build and publish apps and workflows for Cloud Control from natural-language prompt, with OpenAI Codex, an agentic platform that helps you build and ship with AI, built in. Everything built in Studio \u2014 plus agents and apps from across Cisco\u2019s ecosystem \u2014 can be published to\u00a0Cloud Control Marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco Cloud Control enters Controlled Availability in United States today, with Global Availability to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Security for the Mythos era, fused directly into the infrastructure<\/p>\n<p>Reactive defense is no longer enough when the window between vulnerability and exploit has collapsed from weeks to minutes. As a charter member of Anthropic\u2019s Project Glasswing and OpenAI\u2019s Daybreak, Cisco stress-tests its own products using the latest frontier AI models \u2014 finding the weaknesses adversaries would, before they can. Cisco isn\u2019t keeping that advantage to itself: through the recently open-sourced\u00a0Foundry Security Spec, every defender can apply that same rigor to their AI-driven security evaluations.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco is expanding protections across its infrastructure to shield customers from new vulnerabilities quickly following discovery \u2014 with Cisco Cloud Control as the security command center where defense plays out in real time.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aithority.com\/interviews\/aithority-interview-with-rohit-agarwal-founder-ceo-of-portkey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AIThority Interview With Rohit Agarwal, Founder &amp; CEO of Portkey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Always-on defense across the infrastructure<\/p>\n<p>Live Protect\u00a0acts as a digital immune system for Cisco products, shielding them from newly discovered and prioritized vulnerabilities for supported platforms at runtime \u2014 no reboots, no upgrades, no maintenance windows. Now available in N9000 series switches and included with the Nexus One product entitlement, Live Protect is expanding to more products in the Cisco Portfolio in the coming months, starting with campus and branch smart switches, followed by secure routers later in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Hybrid Mesh Firewall\u00a0extends unified protection across networks, applications, and Cisco and third-party firewalls \u2014 limiting the blast radius when something goes wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Protecting agents from the world, and the world from agents<\/p>\n<p>AI agents are joining the workforce, working alongside humans, and taking on tasks that require a secure environment. At\u00a0RSAC, Cisco announced an array of new innovations to protect agents from the world, protect the world from agents, and detect and respond to issues at machine speed (link to RSAC blog). Today, Cisco\u00a0announced\u00a0further enhancements across its agentic security offerings, from AI Defense, to Zero Trust for agents, to the Agentic SOC.<\/p>\n<p>Clear path to quantum-safe infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarvest now, decrypt later\u201d attacks are already happening, collecting encrypted data to unlock when quantum capabilities catch up. Cisco is turning tomorrow\u2019s threat into a plan enterprises can start building today:<\/p>\n<p>New Quantum-safe communications\u00a0advancements across Cisco\u2019s core portfolio. With a commitment to enable\u00a0quantum-safe communications capabilities across the majority of Cisco\u2019s core portfolio\u00a0by December 2026, Cisco is extending post-quantum protection to the systems where the most sensitive enterprise traffic flows.<br \/>\nQuantum-safe by default for new infrastructure.\u00a0Starting today and moving forward, any newly introduced campus, branch and data center routers, switches, and firewall series will launch with\u00a0quantum-safe secure boot. This builds on the same quantum-safe technology already shipping in campus smart switches.<br \/>\nThe new\u00a0Quantum Ready Assessments, available through Cisco IQ, identify the assets most exposed to \u201charvest now, decrypt later\u201d attacks \u2014 and where to start. Global availability planned for July 2026.<br \/>\nThe new\u00a0Quantum Resilience Framework\u00a0gives enterprises a structured approach to post-quantum cryptography across two pillars: quantum-safe communications and quantum-safe products.<\/p>\n<p>Long-term resilience with Cisco\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To help customers navigate this new era,\u00a0Cisco Services\u00a0is announcing new capabilities:<\/p>\n<p>Resilient Infrastructure Services,\u00a0delivered through Cisco Support and Professional Services, is a new three-step approach \u2014 Exposure Assessment, Infrastructure Modernization, Defense Resiliency \u2014 that helps customers mitigate risk from frontier model threats.<br \/>\nCisco IQ,\u00a0fully integrated into Cisco Cloud Control, is Cisco\u2019s AI-powered delivery vehicle for Support and Professional Services. It\u2019s helping customers build the long-term resilience that today\u2019s threat landscape demands with a Resilient Infrastructure Playbook, built with AI-driven insights and Zero Trust principles.<br \/>\nSupporting customers with data sovereignty requirements, Cisco IQ will now support\u00a0on-premises deployment\u00a0options.<br \/>\nCisco IQ\u2019s\u00a0Peer Benchmarking\u00a0uses anonymized data to provide data-driven insights on areas such as Last Day of Support (LDOS) risk exposure and security vulnerability rates, enabling comparison with organizations of similar size, sector, or infrastructure profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cisco Cloud Control brings together human operators and trusted AI agents to run the world\u2019s most critical systems&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[179,7493,405,329,34414,34415,6013,34416,548,34417,314],"class_list":["post-59368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-agentic-ai","tag-agentic-ai","tag-agentic-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai-agents","tag-cisco","tag-cisco-cloud-control","tag-cisco-networking","tag-compute","tag-jeetu-patel","tag-observability","tag-president-and-chief-product-officer","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}