Defense strategies have always been unsafe for technological innovation. Back during the day, large thick fort walls were art conditions, until the attackers learned how to bounce the objects on the walls and later fly and leave the monks. Hand-coded messages encrypted with complex ciphers were once considered unbreakable, until rapid computing power and decryption algorithms all do not make all the but strongest codes all but the strongest code.
And now, we have AI. Elements such as firewalls, infiltration detection, division and access control are suddenly unsafe for intelligent agents working within the virtual walls of the network, not only for malware.
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Network Safety Risk Now comes from AIS launched by enemy actors and dissatisfied internal sources, and the AI agents are loosened by their instructions due to a misunderstanding or hallucinations and the amoo is moving between the areas of data.
The AIS may increase the velocity and diversity of malicious attacks, reducing the cost of attackers. They are multiples of exponential motion. And yet, the responsibility for defense still rests with a limited number of overwork IT workers, just trying to keep its never ending list.
Now, Cisco is expanding its defensive capabilities by announcing a new suit of the Network Protection Infrastructure in the East-AI era, a new suit of AI-centric defensive solutions. Let’s know more.
Zero trust
Zero Trust is a cyber security term describing a method by which no network unit guarantees access to any other network unit without verification. If the network was a house, whatever room you go to, there is a lock. Opening a lock will not mean that all other doors will be unlocked. In fact, if you unlock a room, enter, and then leave, you have to unlock the room to regain the entrance.
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This approach is zero trust. This is a way to prevent unfit access and movement in a network, working on the assumption that just because a network unit passed a trust test at a time, it does not mean that the unit will continue to do so. This approach provides strong protection against malware that can corrupt a pre -safe application or user. It also shows a promise to protect from AI agents that require access to network resources.
The main approach of Cisco is universal ZTNA (for zero trust network access). It is an integrated policy management approach that provides safe access to users, equipment and agents regardless of the network space. ZTNA also applies zero-trust approach to unrelated network components and IOT devices. The user-from-proceedings within the Cisco network are trying to lock the connection and interaction.
The management is provided using Cisco’s safety cloud control, and the company has reported “Increased observation with A-Insites”, which I think it is using AI to highlight important or worrying issues in the network.
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The zero-trust of the Cisco is another aspect of the protective currency called hybrid mesh firewall. This technique is not a device, but a overall architecture is designed to create a distributed safety fabric that enables the protection, division and policy enforcement of advanced danger in various environment.
Of course, to respond to the demands of verification, the core needs to have an identity management system if you, your applications, and your AI friends are being asked to present credentials at every step within a network. The Cisco is launching the Duo IMAMANT (IAM), which acts as an identity broker, providing both passwordless capabilities and proximity verification capacity at the top of the current identity infrastructure.
If the Duo name seems familiar, it is because for a long time a pair is a multi-factor authentication service that is used for other things for safe web access. Cisco Acquired the safety of the pair back in 2018 And since then a branding deformation has been using the pair as evidence.
Firewal
Firewall networks are the originals of safety, and Cisco is announcing two new Firewall series, secure Firewall 6100 series and safe Firewall 200 series.
Safe Firewall is for 6100 series that Cisco says “A-Redi Data Center”. The actual key of these units is the network throwput capacity. They can handle up to 200 GBPS per rack unit. What does this ability mean that you can pump lots of data through them, and they handle low rack spaces that handle the tsunami of bite traffic.
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The safe firewall 200 series aims to be aimed at distributed branches. The idea is that each box involves the danger inspection and integrated support for SD-wide (software-defined wide area networking). In other words, boxes connect easily and smartly distributed locations, binding them together in a large virtual network, regardless of physical addresses.
Beyond the new hardware, Cisco is expanding its respective software offerings. The Cisco Security Cloud Control tool now has a Aries policy engine. This allows IT teams to define a security policy that has been implemented in Cisco Firewall and Third -party firewall, which attracted my attention. In other words, you can protect your Cisco, even if you are not 100% Cisco shop.
Agent AI Security
Agent is the next large area for AI Cisco. If you think about it, agent AI is about revealing your worst security bad dreams. You get an intelligence information that often makes accessories, ignores directions, and is usually going out of control, and it is inside your network.
In some ways, I think of agent AI on the same danger/profit spectrum as nuclear technology. On the one hand, nuclear technology has brought amazing progress, and on the other, big concerns.
Agent AI can buy us benefits for a uniform degree, but the price is the tailing time bomb that has the ability to become every agent. In addition, of course, the risk of dedicated agents developed by enemy actors intentionally causes havoc.
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As Cisco said, “These AI agents autonomously reach enterprise resources, decide, and work on behalf of users, requiring strong security measures.” Yes, think?
I think the main theme of Cisco is Universal Zero Trust Architecture. The idea is that if you have a full-to-end zero-trust environment, evil processes will not be able to run on a large scale, and AI agents will also be limited under their operation.
Cisco agent is also combining features to enable agents tasks and wide tracking of automated agent discovery, and this ability is operated earlier by the new IAM Cisco Identity Intelligence Service.
Splutter
About a year ago, Cisco completed his $ 28 billion acquisition of Splack. Splunk has long been a provider of data security, monitoring and observable platforms, helping its customers understand what is happening on their network.
In its announcement, Cisco said Cisco said, “Progress between Cisco and Splack strengthens interpreting in the major security workflows.” “By united and enrich the data in platforms, these enhancement helps the security teams react rapidly, reduce manual efforts, and to extract more value from their safety tasks.”
Essentially, Cisco’s safety data now now has a greater difference with the analytics of the splon, and the environment gets more AI support. Cisco announced that Cisco Secure would be able to “unlock deep insights within the splon” by feeding data from the firewall in the Secure Firewall Analytics engine.
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The Cisco Cloud Security App for Splunk (Splunk Support Security Apps) will have more support to protect the risk of Cisco Firepower. By combining that capacity with telemetry from a wide range of Cisco products and services, the speed of detection of tight splonic integration will increase, especially in the hybrid environment.
Splunk’s safety orchestation, automation, and SOAR platforms now add specific actions for Cisco Secure Firewall. Playbooks, which are essentially automated policies, can automatically respond by separating hosts or blocking traffic, improving mitigation speed during attacks.
Additionally, the data from the secured application solution of Cisco, which helps in protecting applications on the runtime layer, can be fed in the splon, which means that the security team can discover the threats and identify areas of anxiety on the application layer.
Just because you are crazy …
There is a classic old phrase, “just because you are crazy, it does not mean that there is no one to get you.” In the world of cyber security, especially in this new and challenging “AI era”, some level of vigilance is necessary.
While the vocabulary of Cisco is what it is doing at the network level, there is a large extent outside the world of enterprise computing, the lines below are looking at the better and more comprehensive ways to protect the network in an environment, where there are more threats, there are more cruel threats, and there is a new class of danger from intelligent actors, both are a new class, both Amok and Durgaan.
How are you? Is your organization agent preparing for AI? How do you bring security challenges? Are you already using Cisco’s Firewall or Doo Tool? Do these new updates change how you think about your infrastructure? Have you integrated with a splon or discovered how the zero trust model of Cisco fits in your hybrid environment? Let us know in the comments below.
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