Cisco launches Cloud Control platform with AI security tools

Cisco has unveiled a major new platform and a suite of security technologies designed to help enterprises manage and defend their IT infrastructure as AI agents become integral to business operations. The announcements, made at the Cisco Live conference in Las Vegas, center on Cisco Cloud Control, a unified management platform that serves as a command center for both human operators and autonomous AI agents.

Executives stated that the shift from AI chatbots to agentic AI, where software agents take actions and execute tasks continuously, necessitates a new approach to infrastructure. Cisco Cloud Control is positioned as the foundation for this "AgenticOps" model, providing a single environment to manage networking, security, compute, observability, and collaboration tools. The platform offers cross-domain telemetry, aggregating data into a shared layer so humans and agents operate from the same information.

A key component is the ability to build and deploy trusted AI agents within the platform. These agents are designed to identify issues, perform root-cause analysis, recommend fixes, and test changes in a digital replica of the network before deployment, all with human...