Cisco launches platform to defend against AI-powered cyber threats

Cisco launches platform to defend against AI-powered cyber threats

By Yahoo Finance Video
Publication Date: 2026-06-02 19:59:00

00:00 Speaker A

Well AI is fueling a cybersecurity arms race, Cisco launched a new platform designed to help customers defend against attacks uncovered by increasingly powerful AI models. For more on this, we’re calling for tech support with Yahoo Finance’s Dan Halley. All right Dan, so Cisco debut its new live protect platform. Explain this one for us.

00:26 Dan Halley

Yeah, this is basically uh a means for them to kind of come in and address this kind of new era of AI where, you know, these increasingly powerful models can become very sophisticated when it comes to detecting flaws in software and then exploiting them. And so the idea here is that a lot of times when you have different types of networks, uh and and uh the hardware in there, uh they only get updated, you know, a few times a year. These models like uh Anthropics Claud uh mythos preview,

01:05 Dan Halley

it’s able to find thousands of vulnerabilities in different pieces of software….