Posts

Showing posts from May, 2026

Vinccler: The Skills Payload: What’s Landing at Cisco Live 2026

Discover what’s new at Cisco Live 2026—refreshed CCNA, AI in CCIE, new Cisco U. Learning Paths and tutorials, certification updates, plus special promotions to build security and design skills. View Source

Vinccler: More efficient and functional workplaces start with smart building data

Smart building data is being used to make buildings more efficient, more responsive, and better aligned to the people and businesses that depend on them. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco Secure Access and Microsoft Edge for Business Integration

Announcing the new integration between Cisco Secure Access and Microsoft Edge for Business, designed to enhance enterprise browser security and protect an organization’s applications and data. View Source

Vinccler: Maximizing Managed Security Services Sales & Profitability: Part 2 of 2, A Strategic Guide to Creating New Services

Learn how MSPs can maximize profitability and sales by transitioning from fragmented point-product security models to integrated, outcome-driven managed security services. View Source

Vinccler: Explore Enterprise Networking Automation at Cisco Live US 2026

Explore top networking automation sessions, labs, and workshops at Cisco Live US 2026. From IOS XE and AI-ready infra to ACR and telemetry, this guide helps you master the tools driving the future of network management. Plan your schedule now! View Source

Vinccler: From Research to Reality: Launching the 9th Annual Cisco Partner Innovation Challenge

Join the 9th Annual Cisco Global Partner Innovation Challenge. Compete for a $1M prize pool by building commercial-ready solutions on the Cisco platform. View Source

Vinccler: Why Financial Agility is the New Competitive Edge

Discover why financial agility is the new competitive edge. Learn how Cisco Capital helps IT leaders modernize infrastructure and accelerate AI adoption, even in a complex economic landscape. View Source

Vinccler: Proprietary Problems: No Frontier Model Is Multi-Turn Immune

The dominant safety benchmarks for frontier large language models share a structural assumption: that a single prompt and a single model response are enough to characterize how a model behaves under adversarial attack. These benchmarks inform model.. View Source

Vinccler: Securing campus and branch networks from boot to transport with full-stack PQC

Quantum threats are driving the need for post-quantum cryptography across the network stack, as attackers can capture encrypted data today and decrypt it in the future. Discover how Cisco full-stack PQC helps protect both devices and data. View Source

Vinccler: Why Network Segmentation Projects Fail: Four Patterns

Cisco's 2026 Segmentation Report analyzes 400 failed segmentation projects and identifies four distinct patterns of failure — and what teams can do about them View Source

Vinccler: Accelerating Enterprise-Scale AI Development & Experimentation

As AI continues to transform the enterprise landscape, the challenge for large organizations isn't just adopting the technology—it’s scaling it effectively. At Cisco, we recognized that while our teams were eager to build Retrieval-Augmented........ View Source

Vinccler: Cisco’s Risk-Based Vulnerability Disclosure in the Age of AI 

Discover how Cisco is evolving its vulnerability disclosure practices. We are leveraging AI to prioritize high-risk security issues, helping customers focus on critical patching and remediation efforts. View Source

Vinccler: Enhancing Cisco Secure Email Gateway: Safer Clicks and Cleaner Files

Cisco Secure Email Gateway enhancements: RBI neutralizes web-based threats via isolated browsing, CDR sanitizes malicious components from email attachments. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco Partners With College Board to Launch AP Cybersecurity and Expand Career-Connected Learning

4.8 million cybersecurity jobs sit unfilled. AP Cybersecurity—powered by Cisco Networking Academy—is building the pipeline. Here's how. View Source

Vinccler: AI-generated reporting: Lessons learned from Cisco Talos Incident Response

Talos IR shares prompt engineering lessons for consistent, accurate AI-generated cybersecurity reports with a realistic case study. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure

Cisco’s 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ recognition highlights its AI-ready secure network strategy across wired and wireless LAN, security, and operations. View Source

Vinccler: AI network performance with Cisco Intelligent Packet Flow

What changes when the network adapts to AI traffic in real time? Cisco Intelligent Packet Flow delivers faster job completion, higher GPU efficiency, and operational consistency across large AI fabrics. View Source

Vinccler: Real-World Skills for Real World Challenges: AI-Led Updates Across Cisco Certification Portfolio

Learn with Cisco announces major updates to the CCNA and CCIE certifications—built for the AI era. New blueprints, hands-on training, and an AI module for expert-level engineers. View Source

Vinccler: Learn with Cisco at Cisco Live 2026: Your Week for Skills, Certs, and What’s Next

Whether you visit us in the Learn with Cisco booth at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas or watch the action online, here's what you need to know to make the most of your week. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco N9000 excels in EANTC 2026 VXLAN EVPN and timing tests

At EANTC 2026, Cisco N9000 switches dominated 12-vendor validation tests, including VXLAN EVPN and secure PTP/MACsec. These results prove Cisco’s open, AI-ready architecture is the industry standard for performance and multivendor integration. View Source

Vinccler: Innovating at the Speed of Business: Announcing the Customer Achievement Awards AMER 2026 Finalists 

We are honored to celebrate these remarkable achievements and the trust our customers place in Cisco as their technology partner. View Source

Vinccler: Future of Sports Analytics: Building Trust and Intelligence with SūmerSports and Cisco

Cisco and SūmerSports demonstrate how on-premise AI infrastructure gives sports organizations the security and trust they need to turn proprietary data into a real competitive edge. View Source

Vinccler: The SMB Marketing Reset: Winning Customer Trust in a Digital-First Economy

In a changing digital landscape, discover how small and medium-sized businesses, both B2B and B2C, are building trust with customers through personalized and creative marketing strategies. View Source

Vinccler: Inside the SOC: AI-powered DNS defense against ransomware

Use AI-powered predictive DNS defense in Cisco Secure Access to disrupt ransomware and streamline your SOC investigations. View Source

Vinccler: Our Path Forward

Cisco announces a realignment of resources to support strategic investment areas and a workforce reduction. View Source

Vinccler: Securing the Federal Digital Experience with Cisco ThousandEyes for Government

With the new FedRAMP® Moderate authorization, Cisco ThousandEyes for Government now provides federal agencies with the essential visibility and assurance required to maintain reliable, secure digital services for mission-critical operations. View Source

Vinccler: State-sponsored actors, better known as the friends you don’t want

Incident Response teams must increasingly be prepared to respond to threats coming from nation-state attackers View Source

Vinccler: Cisco at ONUG Dallas 2026: Securing the AI Data Center in the Agentic Era

Join Cisco at the ONUG AI Networking Summit in Dallas to discover how our latest innovations in scale, simplicity, and security are powering the next generation of AI-ready enterprise infrastructure. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco and Red Hat are powering intelligent core to edge: Red Hat Summit insights

Explore how Cisco and Red Hat are helping enterprises scale secure AI and solve some of today’s most pressing challenges from the data center core to the furthest edge. View Source

Vinccler: Building the Capabilities That Win: How Cisco Partners Can Lead in the SMB & Mid-Market Era

Discover how the new Cisco 360 Partner Program and SMB & Mid-Market Business Practice empower partners to lead. Learn the seven core capabilities, role-based training tracks, and exclusive incentives designed to drive growth and profitability in the dynamic SMB and Mid-Market segments. View Source

Vinccler: How Two Hours Felt Bigger Than My To-Do List

Technical Intern Priyanshi R. shares how volunteering with Cisco’s Cancer Support Network shifted her perspective on work and human connection. View Source

Vinccler: Announcing Foundry Security Spec

An Open Specification for Agentic Security Evaluation  In the age of AI, the real game changer is more than the latest LLM, it’s how you put it to work. That’s why we’re open-sourcing the Foundry Security Spec, a battle-tested blueprint for........ View Source

Vinccler: Ace the CCIE Collaboration Lab: Success Tips from a TAC Engineer Turned CCIE

Prepare for the CCIE Collaboration v3.1 Practical Exam with expert tips, resources, and exam-day strategies that actually work. View Source

Vinccler: Improving Labeling Consistency with Detailed Constitutional Definitions and AI-Driven Evaluation

Enterprises need to know exactly what their systems detect, and that definition must stay consistent over time. Writing a definition precise enough to settle every hard case has long been impractical because human annotators cannot hold a document.. View Source

Vinccler: Protecting Agents with Cisco AI Defense and Google Agent Development Kit

Agents are powerful because they do more than answer questions. They call tools, retrieve context, and act across multiple steps. That is what makes frameworks like Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) so useful, and it is also what changes...... View Source

Vinccler: Powering an Inclusive Future: Your guide to the Purpose Pavilion at Cisco Live Las Vegas

The Purpose Pavilion Theater at Cisco Live is a hub for bold ideas and actionable insights, featuring sessions on digital skills, AI, sustainability, and more. View Source

Vinccler: The Infrastructure Behind the Mission: SOF Week 2026

Join #TeamDnS at SOF Week to explore how Cisco’s resilient, secure architecture serves as the critical backbone for mission success at the tactical edge. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco Networking App Marketplace Partners at Cisco Live 2026

Discover Cisco Networking App Marketplace partners at Cisco Live US 2026 and explore integrations across security, wireless, NetOps, infrastructure, and specialized use cases that extend Cisco networking across the ecosystem. View Source

Vinccler: Beyond the Pilot: Building the Clinical Data Fabric for the Agentic Era

Take a look at the recent Scaling AI in Healthcare panel with Eric Knipp and learn more about how agentic AI is driving the conversation. View Source

Vinccler: Benchmarking scale-out AI fabrics with Cisco N9000 + AMD Pensando™ Pollara 400 NICs

Cisco N9000 switches and AMD Pensando Pollara 400 NICs deliver a high-performance AI fabric. MLPerf-validated, this solution eliminates GPU underutilization, maximizing ROI by accelerating enterprise AI training and inference workloads. View Source

Vinccler: Reading Between the Pixels: Failure Modes in Vision Language Models

This post is Part 2 of a two-part series on multimodal typographic attacks. In Part 1 of “Reading Between the Pixels,” we demonstrated that text–image embedding distance correlates with typographic prompt injection success: conditions that push.... View Source

Vinccler: Month of Developer Productivity: Build and Forget

Discover developer productivity tools: set up VS Code, automate code quality, debug Python effectively, and ship reproducible builds with uv and Docker. View Source

Vinccler: Lean IT, future-ready: How to save time and simplify wireless management with AI

Wireless networking is vital for AI, hybrid work, and cloud access. AI-driven management simplifies operations, automates manual tasks, and lightens the load for smaller IT teams. View Source

Vinccler: Biochar’s triple win: Healthier soils, improved crops, and decarbonization

Demand for biochar is surging as it gains recognition as both a powerful carbon removal tool and a solution for soil health. View Source

Vinccler: Designing a Proactive Customer Journey

Proactive customer engagement isn’t about complex systems—it’s about anticipating customer needs and delivering timely, relevant communication through the right channels. View Source

Vinccler: Why your automation stack needs Cisco Agentic Workflows

Cisco Agentic Workflows unifies existing automation tools into a cohesive, enterprise-grade strategy that acts as a force multiplier to help network, automation teams streamline fragmented tasks and attain a new level of competency and control. View Source

Vinccler: Securing the Agentic Workforce: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Astrix Security

Cisco announces its intent to acquire Astrix Security, extending Zero Trust to the agentic workforce to secure non-human identities and AI agents in the modern enterprise. View Source

Vinccler: Understanding CISA BOD 26-02: Mitigating Risk from End-of-Support Edge Devices

Learn how Cisco’s FedRAMP-authorized solutions help federal agencies meet the new CISA BOD 26-02 requirements by effectively mitigating the security risks associated with End-of-Support edge devices. View Source

Vinccler: The impact of AI on wide area network traffic: we need to talk

This blog introduces a new Cisco report that looks at how AI—and especially agentic AI—is reshaping global wide area network traffic patterns. AI isn't just adding traffic. It's changing the shape of traffic. View Source

Vinccler: Digging Deeper: The Future of Mining with Automation and Ultra-Reliable Wireless

Explore the future of mining with automation. Learn how Cisco’s ultra-reliable wireless technology provides the connectivity needed for safe, 24/7 autonomous operations. View Source