By Yaron Singer,
Publication Date: 2026-01-29 13:00:00
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly autonomous and embedded across enterprise environments, securing AI systems has emerged as a defining challenge for the industry. Cisco is addressing this challenge by advancing agentic security systems that combine reasoning, adaptive retrieval, and human oversight to support real world security operations at scale.
Through recent innovations from Cisco Foundation AI, including the Foundation-sec-8B-Reasoning model, adaptive retrieval framework for AI search, and the PEAK Threat Hunting Assistant, Cisco is establishing leadership in secure, agentic AI systems designed specifically for cybersecurity use cases.
These efforts reflect Cisco’s broader commitment to enabling customers to adopt AI with confidence, transparency, and control, while ensuring security remains foundational.
From Models to Agentic Security Systems
Traditional AI systems primarily operate through single step inference. Agentic…