News Summary: Splunk AI features come to on-premises customers with Cisco AI POD for Splunk, the newest addition to Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA. New Tokenomics solution in Splunk Agent Observability tracks AI spending and coding agent usage in real time, tying adoption to business value. Splunk’s latest security […]

In a dizzyingly short time, large-language AI models have revolutionized how we think, work, and solve problems.   But these giant-scale models bring challenges as well — particularly related to security and cost. That’s because the same large-language capabilities used by defenders to pinpoint vulnerabilities deep within code bases can be exploited by bad actors. […]

In a rare case of science fiction lagging behind real-world technology, the AI agent in Project Hail Mary’s interstellar ship has all the personality of a lifeless, wandering asteroid. So, lonely Ryan Gosling must await the arrival of an affable alien made of rocks to finally have an engaging conversation. Back on Earth in 2026, […]

Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco, talks with security leaders Anthony Grieco, SVP and Chief Security & Trust Officer at Cisco, and Drew Hintz, Product Security Lead at OpenAI. Together, they explore how security teams are using AI agents to move at machine speed, strengthen enterprise resilience, and stay ahead of emerging […]

In the agentic AI era, the network is the critical foundation for trust, security, and the seamless operating models from which humans and AI can build the future.   But as organizations scramble to gain an AI advantage, there’s a wide gap between their ambitions and what legacy infrastructure can support. These are critical takeaways […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]