Cisco’s new cloud platform aimed at securing AI infrastructure
Cisco Systems Inc. today introduced a sweeping set of products and services designed to help enterprises manage, secure and automate increasingly complex information technology environments as artificial intelligence agents become embedded in corporate infrastructure.
The announcements, made at Cisco Live in Las Vegas, are “the most consequential that Cisco has made in many years,” said Jeff Schultz, senior vice president of portfolio strategy for Cisco’s product organization. The anchor is Cisco Cloud Control (pictured), a new platform that unifies networking, security, observability, infrastructure and collaboration management into a single operational environment for both human administrators and AI agents.
Cisco said the platform addresses an evolving scenario in which AI agents function as digital coworkers, creating operational demands that conventional IT management tools were never designed to handle.
“We are moving from the age of chatbots to the age of agentic AI, where chatbots are productivity tools that help us do our work and agents are digital coworkers,” Schultz said.
