Cisco pitches an agentic platform for operating and defending critical IT

Cisco's announcement is a major enterprise-infrastructure signal: large incumbents are packaging AI agents as both operators and defenders of production IT. At Cisco Live, the company said organizations must act and defend at machine speed in an agentic AI world. Its update spans AI Defense, Zero Trust for agents, Agentic SOC, and Cisco IQ peer benchmarking for risks such as end-of-support exposure and vulnerability rates. Cisco also says newly introduced campus, branch, data center router, switch, and firewall series will launch with quantum-safe secure boot. The story is medium-confidence because most details come from Cisco's own newsroom, but it fills the critical-infrastructure and agent-security lane that the first pass undercovered.

Key details: June 2, 2026, Cisco Live US, Cisco, AI Defense, Zero Trust for agents, Agentic SOC, Cisco IQ, quantum-safe secure boot.

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