Cisco Redefines Security for the Agentic Era with AI Defense Expansion and AI-Aware SASE

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• AI security teams are now being asked three questions at once: what AI assets do we have, where did they come from, and how will they behave in production as agents interact with tools and third-party services

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• In the age of AI, safety and security are pre-requisites for adoption, and AI agents bring a whole new set of challenges

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• With AI BOM and MCP governance plus multi-turn red teaming and real-time guardrails, Cisco AI Defense is targeting the full risk path from the AI supply chain to agentic runtime

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• Cisco's SASE market share has increased roughly 20% since 2023

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• Vendors that align networking, security, and policy enforcement are increasingly well-positioned as SASE deployments scale

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• As agents take on critical enterprise roles, Cisco is developing protections that work both ways: preventing agents from being compromised and controlling what they can access and do on our behalf

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• For today's CIOs and CISOs, the explosive growth of AI-driven workloads creates both opportunity and risk

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