Cisco Live 2026: New Security Tools Target AI Threats

Cisco Live 2026: New Security Tools Target AI Threats

By Drew Robb
Publication Date: 2026-06-02 19:39:00

This week’s Cisco Live event in Las Vegas featured a raft of product announcements as the company prepares its portfolio for the agentic AI era.

The aim is to enable enterprises to operate and defend at machine speed and at AI scale. Central to these announcements is an overarching platform known as Cisco Cloud Control. It is designed to manage, monitor, and defend critical IT infrastructure while providing a foundation for Cisco’s AgenticOps operating model.

Cisco Cloud Control brings together the breadth of the company’s offerings across networking, security, compute, observability, and collaboration, providing a way to manage and secure them within a single environment. No more hopping from console to console.

Additionally, Cisco Cloud Control allows users to build applications and create agents using natural language directly within the platform. To facilitate interaction with platforms such as AWS, Linear, ServiceNow, and Slack, Cisco Cloud Control can connect to more…