Reimagining security and building trust for agentic AI

Secure networking integrates security directly into the network to protect connections, detect threats, and contain attacks faster across data centers, campuses, branches, and remote workplaces.

AI is accelerating both innovation and cyberattacks, so organizations need faster, more adaptive defenses that can protect the network from increasing workloads, devices, and AI agents. Cisco enables adaptive defenses by integrating security directly into the network fabric, providing the visibility and control needed to defend against AI-driven threats. Read more about how Cisco is managing AI-era cyber defense.

Modern cyberthreats have changed. Agents, IoT devices, workloads, and other nonhuman entities now outnumber people on many networks, making slow, manual security responses ineffective. Organizations now need real-time identity and visibility for every entity.

Quantum threats pose a significant risk because they can compromise traditional network encryption, allowing attackers to harvest data today for decryption in the future. To counter this, Cisco helps organizations build a quantum-safe foundation by integrating advanced post-quantum encryption. This ensures sensitive data flows remain protected and maintain integrity against next-generation cryptographic threats.

The Cisco zero-trust approach shifts security from a traditional, static perimeter to a dynamic model that verifies every entity and connection. By supporting intelligent identity verification for both human users and non-human entities like IoT devices and AI agents, Cisco ensures that every access request is authenticated and authorized, regardless of whether they are operating in a campus, branch, or data center environment.

Cisco secure networking supports a wide range of environments, including data centers, campuses, branch offices, remote environments, and other network locations. Cisco helps data centers support demanding AI and modern workloads while applying security at every layer for performance, scalability, and protection. Cisco fuses security into the network to protect users, devices, and IoT connections across campus and branch environments.

You can use the Cisco threat readiness assessment to evaluate your organization's preparedness and identify opportunities to strengthen its security posture.

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