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Cisco Redefines Cybersecurity Defense with Powerful, Portfolio-Wide Artificial Intelligence Capabilities
NEWS SUMMARY: The new Cisco AI Assistant for Security marks a major step in making artificial intelligence pervasive in the Security Cloud, Cisco's unified,
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[{"type":"text","content":"NEWS SUMMARY:\nThe new Cisco AI Assistant for Security marks a major step in making artificial intelligence pervasive in the Security Cloud, Cisco's unified, AI-driven, cross-domain security platform.The AI Assistant will reframe how organizations think about cybersecurity outcomes and tip the scales in favor of defenders by helping make informed decisions, augment existing capabilities and automate complex tasks.With unmatched visibility across the network and security, Cisco's AI Assistant is trained on one of the largest security-focused data sets in the world, which analyzes more than 550 billion security events each day.MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CISCO LIVE -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the leader in enterprise networking and security, today unveiled the Cisco AI Assistant for Security. This marks a major step in making artificial intelligence (AI) pervasive in the Security Cloud, Cisco's unified, AI-driven, cross-domain security platform. The AI Assistant will help customers make informed decisions, augment their tool capabilities and automate complex tasks.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"To be an AI-first company, you must be a data-first company. 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,\" said Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Collaboration at Cisco. \"Today's announcement is a monumental step forward. This advancement will help tip the scales in favor of defenders, empowering customers with AI built pervasively throughout the Cisco Security Cloud.\"\nAs cyber attacks continue to evolve, organizations' defenses must, too. 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 Cisco Talos 2023 Year in Review report. Talos also observed an increase in sophisticated attacks on networking devices this past year, particularly by state-sponsored actors. The increased speed and sophistication of malicious actors requires the adoption of machine scale defenses.\nWith unmatched visibility across the network and security, Cisco works with more machine-driven telemetry and on a scale larger than most in the ...