Cisco Showcases New Generation of AI-Based Security Innovations to Address Increasingly Sophisticated Threats at RSAC 2025 Cisco Systems, Inc., today unveiled a series of new security innovations at the RSAC 2025 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, designed to help enterprises combat artificial intelligence threats and improve the security of AI applications. These new releases are designed to address what the company describes as an “increasingly complex threat landscape,” further complicated by a growing talent shortage that has created a need for machine-level security and responsiveness. According to a forthcoming report from Cisco, 86% of enterprises around the world have experienced AI-related security incidents in the past 12 months, indicating they underestimate the complexity of securing AI. Cisco’s announcement today is part of its commitment to developing capabilities for customers through ecosystem partnerships and contributing to the wider community through open-source safety classifiers and tools. ” Cisco will continue its mission to protect AI while leveraging AI for security through novel open-source models and tools, new AI agents, and advances in the Internet of Things, and to integrate the full range of services from the Cisco Security Cloud, “said Jeetu Patel, executive vice president and chief product officer at Cisco.” Together, these innovations will level the playing field and deliver AI innovations that make all enterprises more secure. “One of the most notable highlights of the announcement was improved threat detection and response through Cisco XDR and Splunk Security. The new Cisco XDR upgrade reduces noise interference faced by security teams primarily by correlating analytics of network, end point, cloud environments, and telemetry data in the mail system. A new feature called Instant Attack Verification leverages agentic AI to automatically create and execute customized investigation plans, enabling teams to quickly identify, confirm, and respond to real threats. These improvements are designed to help organizations respond to security incidents with greater speed and confidence. Complementing these upgrades, Cisco is simultaneously releasing a new automated XDR Forensics feature that enables deeper visibility analysis of end point activity. This feature improves the accuracy of investigations by revealing hidden patterns of malicious behavior. In addition, a visualization tool called XDR Storyboard enables security teams to untangle complex attack scenarios in seconds, accelerating the response process. Announcements at the RSA annual meeting also include new features for Splunk, a security company acquired by Cisco in March. Splunk Enterprise Security 8.1, due to be released in June, will bring better visualization and integrated workflows, while Splunk SOAR 6.4, now available, automates threat detection and response. With Cisco XDR, organizations will be able to build a security operations center that leverages AI to enhance productivity and resilience. Partnerships Building on its AI Defense initiative, Cisco today also announced a deepening collaboration with ServiceNow Inc. to streamline AI governance and risk management. The first integration project will combine Cisco AI Defense with ServiceNow’s SecOps platform to provide enterprises with a more unified view of AI risk and improve mechanisms for enforcing security policies in AI deployments. The partnership reflects the industry’s ongoing move towards an integrated cyber security ecosystem to address the challenges of the AI era. Another announcement today is the Cisco Foundation AI initiative, which follows Cisco’s acquisition of Robust Intelligence Inc. in August 2024. Founded after, and launched the first open-source inference model specifically designed to enhance security applications. The Foundation AI team also plans to release cyber security benchmarks and provide developers with foundational components for building secure AI solutions. In response to vulnerabilities in the AI supply chain, Cisco has introduced a suite of AI supply chain risk management security controls. The new tool is designed to detect and block malicious AI model files, flag high-risk open-source licenses, and enforce policies before unauthorized AI models are deployed into production environments. Finally, Cisco announced the expansion of its Industrial Threat Defense solution to better safeguard the operational technology environment. The new integration of Cisco Cyber Vision and Secure Firewall brings greater vulnerability management and automated network segmentation capabilities to industrial networks. These updates help unify IT and operational technology visualization in the Security Operations Center, enabling enterprises to detect and mitigate threats across their entire digital footprint.
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