Cisco’s AI aids cyber defenses

Nasdaq-listed Cisco, an enterprise networking and security provider, is utilizing artificial intelligence to strengthen its security cloud services.

Cisco launched the AI Assistant for Security, a unified, AI-driven, cross-domain security platform that will help tip the scales in favor of defenders, empowering customers with AI built pervasively throughout the Cisco Security Cloud.

The new Cisco AI Assistant for Security is trained on one of the largest security-focused data sets in the world, which analyzes more than 550 billion security events each day across the web, email, endpoints, networks, and applications.

It can understand event triage, impact and scope, root cause analysis and policy design.

Closing gap

With this data, the AI Assistant aims to close the gap between cybersecurity intent and outcomes.

The AI Assistant will help customers make informed decisions, augment their tool capabilities, and automate complex tasks.

"To be an AI-first company, you must be a data-first company," said Jeetu Patel, executive vice president and general manager of Security and Collaboration at Cisco.

"With our extensive native telemetry, Cisco is uniquely positioned to deliver cybersecurity solutions that allow businesses to confidently operate at machine scale, augmenting what humans can do alone," Patel added.

As cyber-attacks continue to evolve, organizations' defenses must, too.

Attacks persist

Ransomware and extortion attacks continue to persist at a steady pace, making up 20 percent of Cisco Talos Incident Response engagements this year, according to the new Talos 2023 Year in Review report.