Even though I did not make it to Cisco Live this year, there were a lot of big announcements. After browsing through and reading through some articles, I wanted to share a summary of those items that caught my attention below.
Cisco Secure Access and ThousandEyes Integration: This solution provides businesses with insights from extensive visibility into network performance, helping detect critical issues and improve the digital experience of applications. Used to be two completely separate products in the past.
AI Enhancements in Cisco Meraki: Cisco introduced new AI capabilities in Meraki cameras, which now include features to improve security and observability. For example: it can now detect specific worker uniforms to prevent unauthorized access,
Partnership with NVIDIA: Cisco announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to develop and deploy AI workloads in the datacenter (Private AI). This partnership aims to offer purpose-built Ethernet networking solutions to support GPU clusters, enhancing the efficiency of AI deployments.
Cisco Security Cloud: Enhancements to the Cisco Security Cloud were introduced, including Cisco Identity Intelligence. This AI-powered solution aims to protect against identity-based cyber threats by providing comprehensive security across machines, services, apps, and data.
Full-Stack Observability Innovations: These include Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) with Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Session Replay, observability for Kubernetes workloads using extended Berkeley Packet Filters (eBPF), and a new natural language interface for troubleshooting powered by Gen AI.
Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Observability: This new feature in Cisco’s observability platform focuses on real-time data discovery, classification, policy definition, and compliance visibility, helping businesses manage and secure sensitive data effectively.
Some sources for this article can be found below:
ITPro – Cisco Live 2024: All the updates and announcements as they happen
Cisco – Cisco’s Pioneering Identity Intelligence Defends Against Most Persistent Cyber Threat
Nasdaq – Cisco Unveils New Innovations on the Cisco Observability Platform
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