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Vinccler: Introducing Model Provenance Kit: Know Where Your AI Models Come From

The importance of understanding a model’s origins has been a frequent topic of discussion among researchers and industry experts, and our own AI research confirms that AI supply chain security remains a weak link. Tracking where models come from.... View Source

Vinccler: From Strategy to Architecture: How Cisco is Building a Quantum-Safe Future

Dive into the architecture behind Cisco’s holistic, mutilayered PQC strategy to understand how Cisco is operationalizing the secure communications and secure products across the communication planes, inside the chipset, and down to the firmware that loads before your operating system even boots. View Source

Vinccler: Trust: Why security is your next growth engine

In a market where bandwidth is commoditized, trust is the ultimate differentiator. Learn how service providers can turn embedded security into a high-value revenue stream. View Source

Vinccler: From Vision to Reality: Intelligence in Action with Cisco IQ

Get a look under the hood at how we engineered the core capabilities of Cisco IQ, and how that architecture is translating into hard operational value for our customers. View Source

Vinccler: 5 signs your data center is holding your AI strategy back

The biggest barriers to AI readiness are not futuristic—they are the infrastructure problems many IT teams are already dealing with today. Spot the five signs your data center may be holding your AI strategy back. View Source

Vinccler: Stop Overthinking OT Security: The Total Cost of Ownership and Being Smart with Refreshes

Stop overthinking OT security. Discover how to balance total cost of ownership, uncover hidden costs in visibility tools, and use tech refresh cycles to build affordable, secure industrial infrastructure. View Source

Vinccler: AI-Ready, Simpler, and More Secure WAN: Cisco SD-WAN Innovations

Explore what’s new in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN 26.1.1, simplifying SASE adoption, enabling AI-ready networking, and streamlining operations. View Source

Vinccler: Expanding our Product Organization

Martin Lund is leaving Cisco to return to the CEO role at an AI start up. Cisco’s Common Hardware Group joins the Product Organization led by Jeetu Patel. View Source

Vinccler: Scaling the digital future: Why AI and skills investments matter for business and society

It is important to bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology and the people who will shape our future. Learn more about how AI combined with skills investments matters for business and society. View Source

Vinccler: Product sprints for developer-oriented portals and content

Use developer portal analytics and feedback to drive product decisions. Learn key indicators and see how Cisco DevNet improves developer experiences. Stop guessing, start measuring what matters for your API and documentation users. View Source

Vinccler: 30 Years as a CCIE: Why Certifications Matter in the AI Era

30 years as a CCIE. 300+ customer engagements. Salman Asadullah says deep technical expertise is more critical than ever—even in the AI era. Read his story. View Source

Vinccler: Funding the AI-ready data center: Why flexibility wins

Modernizing data centers for AI is urgent, but funding is a barrier. Cisco Capital provides flexible payment solutions to access AI-ready technology while keeping your capital free for what matters most. View Source

Vinccler: The switch that quantum networking has been waiting for

The Cisco Universal Quantum Switch routes entangled photons across all major encoding modalities on existing telecom fiber, unlocking distributed quantum computing. View Source

Vinccler: The Hidden Bottleneck Slowing Down Manufacturing Transformation

Legacy networks are stalling manufacturing transformation. Learn what ARC Advisory Group says it takes to build an AI-ready industrial network. View Source

Vinccler: Securing Enterprise AI: Cisco AI Defense Expands to Google Cloud

Enterprise AI adoption isn't slowing down — and neither are the risks that come with it. According to the 2025 Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index, 86% of organizations experienced an AI-related security incident in the past 12 months, yet... View Source

Vinccler: Energy Will Define the Scale of AI

As AI accelerates, its ultimate scale will be determined not by compute alone, but by how effectively we design, power, secure, and manage the energy systems that underpin it. View Source

Vinccler: Introducing the AI Agent Security Scanner for IDEs: Verify Your Agents

AI-powered integrated developer environments (IDEs) like Cursor, VS Code, and Windsurf now include agents that utilize Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, run skills, and generate entire codebases. But as these tools gain access to file systems... View Source

Vinccler: Powering the Future of Research: Join Cisco at NLIT 2026

Join Cisco at the NLIT Summit 2026 in Kansas City to discover how our AI-ready networks and Zero Trust security solutions are empowering the DOE community to accelerate mission-critical research at scale. View Source

Vinccler: Building the Digital Foundation for a Smarter West Lincoln Memorial Hospital

West Lincoln Memorial Hospital is redefining community healthcare by combining Cisco’s robust network infrastructure with an innovative digital framework to create a smarter, more connected environment for patients and staff. View Source

Vinccler: From Automation to Autonomy: Cisco and Rockwell Power a New Era for Manufacturing

Cisco and Rockwell Automation are helping manufacturers move from isolated AI pilot to industrial autonomy by transforming fragmented systems into unified, adaptive environments that scale across the factory edge. View Source

Vinccler: Find Yourself in the Future: AI Is the New Baseline—Here’s How to Build Your Skills

AI literacy is your career edge. Get key takeaways from Cisco NetAcad's latest Find Yourself in the Future session—plus free courses to build your AI skills today. View Source

Vinccler: One Day with Our Customers: Driving better outcomes through customer centricity

Cisco employees across every function spent time onsite learning how customers’ businesses actually run. View Source

Vinccler: What It Really Takes to Build an AI-First Workforce

Adele Trombetta led her team through a major AI transformation. Read her advice on building an AI-ready culture, driving innovation, and empowering your people. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco Modeling Labs: Bringing the Network Digital Twin to Life

Using CML as a network digital twin allows you to test ideas, sharpen skills, and build confidence long before changes hit the real network. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco and Generation are scaling AI-powered pathways to employment

Learn how Cisco and Generation partner to build digital pathways to employment, using AI to connect job seekers with relevant careers and industry-recognized credentials. View Source

Vinccler: Reading Between the Pixels: Assessing Prompt Injection Attack Success in Images

This post is Part 1 of a two-part series on multimodal typographic attacks. This blog was written in collaboration between Ravi Balakrishnan, Amy Chang, Sanket Mendapara, and Ankit Garg. Modern generative AI models and agents increasingly treat... View Source

Vinccler: Lean IT, future-ready: Why Wi-Fi is your AI growth strategy

The Cisco State of Wireless 2026 report reveals a paradox in wireless technology and AI. With powerful intelligence also comes strained bandwidth, expanding attack surfaces, and a challenging IT talent gap. View Source

Vinccler: AI on the Factory Floor: Why Manufacturing Requires a New Architecture with Cisco Unified Edge

Discover how AI is shifting from insight to action on the factory floor. Cisco Unified Edge powers autonomous industrial operations, enabling real-time decision-making and enhanced performance through a new, integrated architecture. View Source

Vinccler: Designing for What’s Next: Securing AI-Scale Infrastructure Without Compromise

6100 Series is an ultra-high-end firewall, delivering exceptional performance, line-rate threat protection, and modular scalability at AI-ready data centers. View Source

Vinccler: Evolve and Optimize Your Skills for the AI Networking Era

The skills that built the internet aren't enough for what's next. Here's your roadmap to conquering networking for AI—from automation and telemetry to lossless fabric and beyond. View Source

Vinccler: Sustainability 101: Let’s talk about energy efficiency

Energy efficiency may lower bills, reduce waste, and decrease environmental impact. Read more to learn how. View Source

Vinccler: How Cisco CX scaled AI without sacrificing security or cost

Discover how Cisco Customer Experience (CX) leveraged AI-ready infrastructure—including networking, compute, and observability—to secure sensitive data, control costs, and maximize ROI on agentic AI workloads.  View Source

Vinccler: Beyond the Chatbot: How Agentic Frameworks Change Network Engineering

Learn how agentic frameworks orchestrate end-to-end network engineering workflows using skills, MCP servers, and human approval gates. View Source

Vinccler: How we’re building a cleaner, more efficient energy supply | FY25 Purpose Report

Cisco was able to achieve its ambitious Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions reduction goal through a holistic approach across our global operations, from driving efficiency to sourcing renewable energy.  View Source

Vinccler: Preparing for Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Secure Firewall Roadmap

Cisco Secure Firewall’s post-quantum cryptography roadmap: what’s available today, what’s coming, and how to start planning. View Source

Vinccler: Non-Obvious Patterns in Building Enterprise AI Assistants

Lessons from building production AI systems that nobody talks about. The conversation around AI agents has moved fast. A year ago, everyone was optimizing RAG pipelines. Now the discourse centers on context engineering, MCP/A2A protocols, agentic. View Source

Vinccler: Making AI Trustworthy and Observable in Real-Time: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Galileo

Cisco announces the intent to acquire Gold, a dynamic player in the observability for AI space that is helping make AI more reliable, trustworthy, safe, and observable View Source

Vinccler: A simpler path to unified, AI-ready network operations

Reduce operational friction and improve observability with Cisco ENA for Splunk. By unifying networking data into a consistent view, teams can cut alert noise, troubleshoot faster, and build a stronger foundation for AI-driven operations. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco Celebrates The Smart Industry Industrial Transformation Award Winners

Cisco Industrial IoT is proud to sponsor the 2026 Smart Industry Industrial Transformation Awards and celebrate the visionary winners driving the future of digital transformation. View Source

Vinccler: Inside the Mobile World Congress 2026 SOC: Detecting Shadow Traffic with Firepower 6100

Cisco is the sole supplier of network services to Mobile World Congress. The Security and Network Operations Center used Cisco Secure Firewall 6100, Secure Access, Cisco XDR and Splunk to bring them together. View Source

Vinccler: A decade of digital empowerment: Celebrating Cisco’s “Digitaliani” impact in Italy

Over the past decade, Cisco's Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) program in Italy, known as "Digitaliani," has transformed lives, empowered communities, and fostered innovation that puts people first. View Source

Vinccler: ThousandEyes MCP Server Enables AI Powered Digital Assurance for MSPs

Learn how the ThousandEyes MCP Server enables MSPs to scale expertise, reduce MTTR, and deliver AI-powered digital assurance through natural language queries. View Source

Vinccler: Prioritizing security, privacy, and trust in the AI era | FY25 Purpose Report

In a world where nearly everything is connected and generating data, technology holds extraordinary promise to solve our greatest challenges. But with this opportunity comes increasing vulnerability if security and privacy are not prioritized.   View Source

Vinccler: Data Optimization in Security: A Splunk Architect’s Perspective

Learn how to design security data optimization around detection engineering, Splunk architecture, and faster incident response outcomes. View Source

Vinccler: Introducing the new Customer Success Experience on Cisco.com

A centralized resource center is now available at Cisco.com, purpose-built to empower you with the tools, knowledge, and community you need on your schedule, and on your terms. View Source

Vinccler: Building the Digital Nervous System: Join Cisco at Tomorrow.City

Join us for our upcoming session at Tomorrow.City to explore how cities are bridging the "digital deficit" by transforming legacy infrastructure into a unified, data-driven Digital Nervous System. View Source

Vinccler: Industrial AI: Progress, Pressure, and the Path to Scale 

Cisco's 2026 State of Industrial AI Report shows just how much things are changing across industries. Organizations are streamlining workflows and boosting productivity, with new technologies driving real progress. View Source

Vinccler: From Work-in-Progress to Software Engineer: Shaping My Cisco Tech Career

Software Engineer Satyajit S. shares his journey from work-in-progress resume to Cisco career, and why potential matters more than perfection. View Source

Vinccler: Why ‘Build vs. Buy’ Is the Wrong Question

Build vs. buy is the wrong frame — leading companies develop the discipline to pull from a full portfolio of growth levers (build, buy, partner, invest, incubate) based on timing, market conditions, and strategic fit. View Source

Vinccler: The Future of Live is Real-Time: Powering Sports, Media, and Venues with Cisco Unified Edge and Intel

Cisco Unified Edge, powered by Intel Xeon 6, revolutionizes sports and media by moving AI and compute to the edge. This enables real-time analytics, smarter venues, and advanced broadcast workflows. Discover more at the upcoming NAB Show. View Source

Vinccler: 5 tips to automate on-premises operations with Catalyst Center Global Manager

Scaling global operations is increasingly complex when visibility is split across many sites and regions. Get five actionable tips from a Cisco expert on simplifying on-premises deployments at scale with Catalyst Center Global Manager. View Source

Vinccler: Complicated vs. Complex: Why Modern Healthcare Demands a Unique Approach to Cybersecurity

As the healthcare industry undergoes rapid digital transformation, learn how to secure your organization against evolving cyber threats and align with the updated HIPAA Security Rule through Cisco’s specialized Zero Trust approach. View Source

Vinccler: Hello NIST, Meet Duo: Why Mapping Cisco Duo to NIST CSF 2.0 and NIST 800-53 Matters for the US Public Sector

Explore how Cisco Duo bridges the gap between robust zero-trust authentication and essential NIST framework requirements to strengthen cyber resilience in the public sector. View Source

Vinccler: Stop the DIY gamble: Why validated AI infrastructure wins

Don’t gamble with “do-it-yourself” AI infrastructure and the risks of incompatible components. Discover how Cisco Validated Designs provide a secure, pre-tested foundation to accelerate your AI initiatives and eliminate integration headaches. View Source

Vinccler: The Multiplier Effect: Solving the AI Paradox in 2026

Is your network a Multiplier or an Anchor? Solving the 2026 Wireless AI Paradox and unlocking operational leverage with AgenticOps and modern infrastructure. View Source

Vinccler: Breaking the wireless AI paradox: Turning challenges into competitive advantage

The Cisco State of Wireless 2026 report reveals the wireless AI paradox, a critical tension where AI creates both significant growth opportunity and operational complexity for the modern enterprise. View Source

Vinccler: Inside the Talos 2025 Year in Review: A discussion on what the data means for defenders

A conversation between Cisco Talos and Cisco Security leaders on identity, vulnerabilities, and what defenders should focus on in 2025. View Source

Vinccler: Why full-stack post-quantum cryptography cannot wait

Full-stack post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is the architectural framework introduced with Cisco IOS XE 26. It is designed to safeguard devices at every layer—securing boot processes, image integrity, network traffic, and management sessions. View Source

Vinccler: How Visibility-Driven Segmentation is Redefining the OT Security Starting Line

Cisco at S4x26 showcased how Cyber Vision enables OT asset discovery and segmentation without extra hardware, while also demonstrating the power of Splunk — driving visibility, control, and streamlined SecOps workflows to cut OT cyber risk. View Source

Vinccler: Heard This About Cisco Exams? Let’s Set the Record Straight

Are these rumors based in reality? Debunk five common claims about Cisco exams and prepare with confidence. View Source

Vinccler: Beyond MTTR: Why the future of IT is preventative, not reactive

Learn how Cisco IT is evolving beyond reactive MTTR by leveraging unified observability, AI-driven workflows, and centralized data to prevent incidents before they impact users. View Source