SAN JOSE, Calif. – May 19, 2026 – Cisco today announced the release of Splunk’s latest research, The Hidden Costs of Downtime, revealing the aggregate cost of unplanned downtime for Global 2000 companies has surged to $600 billion annually – a 50% increase in just two years. In partnership with Oxford Economics, the Splunk study […]
building trust into agentic AI
Protecting the world from rogue agents: Zero Trust In a seminar titled From Chatbots to Change Agents: Securing Agentic AI, Cisco’s Matt Caulfield, VP of product management for identity, and Kevin Kennedy VP of product and solutions for security, laid out some of the key challenges — and solutions — around identity and access in […]

Reimagining Security for the Agentic Workforce
Imagine you wake up tomorrow to some genuinely exciting news: you’ve been authorized to hire 1,000 new expert-level teammates. Developers, marketers, ops specialists, data analysts, product managers — brilliant at their jobs, available around the clock, never burned out, never distracted. It’s every business leader’s dream. That product line you’ve wanted to launch for two […]

Cisco Reimagines Security for the Agentic Workforce
News Summary: Cisco extends Zero Trust Access to agents with agent discovery in Cisco Identity Intelligence, agentic Identity and Access Management (IAM) in Duo, and model context protocol (MCP) policy enforcement and adaptive risk protection in Secure Access security service edge (SSE). AI Defense: Explorer Edition democratizes AI safety and security by providing […]

Five ways Secure AI Factory supercharges the agentic future
AI workloads must execute where data is created-whether in factory machines, on retail shelves, across a power grid, or across service-provider networks. And therein lies potential value and innovative new use cases. For example, through the Cisco Secure AI Grid powered by NVIDIA, service providers can transform the telecom edge into an AI factory. This […]

Rebuilding The Foundation: Why AI Infrastructure Needs To Change
As AI workloads shift from experimental to mission-critical, unexpected challenges test the assumptions underlying our networks, storage architectures, and security models. After nearly two decades of observing infrastructure evolution, I believe this moment is fundamentally different. We are not optimizing existing paradigms; we are rebuilding them. The bandwidth wall and the rise of co-packaged optics Modern AI training clusters require significant bandwidth. Training advanced models may involve tens or hundreds […]

Cisco to Power TPG Telecom’s Next Generation Security and Service Operations Across Australia with Splunk
News summary: TPG Telecom selects Splunk to accelerate its transition to a Service Operations Centre driven by AIOps. Splunk’s offering provides TPG Telecom with real-time observability, predictive insights, and security automation across its critical services and infrastructure. TPG Telecom will leverage Splunk to enhance service reliability and operational efficiency nationwide. SYDNEY, March 4, 2026 – Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking and security, today announced that Splunk will help TPG Telecom accelerate its […]

Cisco Builds the Critical Infrastructure for the AI Era
For more than 40 years, Cisco has been a trusted partner for global service providers. Now, as they navigate one of the most significant technological shifts in a generation, Cisco is empowering operators to transform their infrastructure into the intelligent, automated and secure foundations necessary for the AI era. Service providers must scale their networks […]

Agentic AI Takes Center Stage in CISOs’ Path to Digital Resilience
SAN JOSE, Calif. – February 24, 2026 – Cisco today announced the release of Splunk’s annual report,The CISO Report: From Risk to Resilience in the AI Era, surveying 650 global Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs). The report highlights CISOs’ rapidly expanding role, their strategic approach to AI adoption, and a steadfast commitment to human […]

Cisco Reports Second Quarter Earnings
Double-digit top and bottom-line growth exceeding our guidance, with EPS growing faster than revenue Record revenue of $15.3 billion, up 10% year over year; GAAP EPS of $0.80, up 31% year over year; and Non-GAAP EPS of $1.04, up 11% year over year GAAP gross margin of 65.0% and Non-GAAP […]