By Vikas Butaney,
Publication Date: 2026-10-26 19:45:00
It’s been a year since Liz Centoni shared a bold vision for infrastructure management that moves at machine speed. A year since the announcement of Cisco IQ.
In this short amount of time, over 16,000 customers are already running Cisco IQ across close to 20 million connected devices. Those numbers tell a story: what was a bold vision a year ago is now an operational imperative.
Advancements in AI have fundamentally altered the threat landscape, collapsing the window between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation from weeks to minutes. Risks are growing beyond human scale, and our customers are feeling the pressure to keep pace.
Today’s complexity demands a new engagement model for our partners, one where they own the customer relationship through deep, platform-centric intelligence. According to the IDC White Paper, sponsored by Cisco, Business Value of Cisco IQ,[1] Cisco IQ is able to determine which devices are affected by a security advisory 96 times faster than…
