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Cisco is Delivering on Platform Strategy with Rapid Innovation Across Cisco
Security Cloud

Cisco, the leader in enterprise networking
and security, announced new industry
shaping innovations across the Cisco
Security Cloud to both power and protect
the AI revolution. The new capabilities
across Cisco’s unified, AI-driven, cross-
domain security platform help companies
better protect their applications, devices,
users and data as well as detect, respond
and recover faster from incidents.
Securing complex, hyper-distributed
digital landscape can no longer be done
at human scale, as attacks become more
sophisticated and nearly 90 percent of
companies around the world say shortage
of cybersecurity talent is a real issue, The combination of Cisco and Splunk is the make faster, more informed decisions
according to Cisco’s 2024 Cybersecurity most comprehensive security solution for about evolving threats by offering
Readiness Index. Organizations need to threat prevention, detection, investigation contextual insights, guided responses,
rethink security by building natively with AI and response for organizations of any recommended actions and automated
and challenging long held conventions to size, utilizing cloud, endpoint traffic - along workflows.
tip the advantage in favor of the defenders. with Cisco's unmatched network footprint • New Cloud Detection and Response
“At the RSA Conference last year, we - for unparalleled visibility. As Cisco and Capabilities: Cisco’s Panoptica cloud
delivered enhanced customer efficacy Splunk converge these platforms, there are native application protection platform
and economics through a true platform many opportunities to advance security (CNAPP) now harnesses AI and ML
approach to security with the Cisco Security operations including: to detect and alert security teams
Cloud. By minimizing point-solutions, • Integrating Cisco Extended Detection & to emerging threats within cloud
customers have realized better end-to-end Response (XDR) with Splunk Enterprise applications in real-time, while GenAI
visibility, uncovered actionable intelligence Security (ES): Seamlessly feed high- Dynamic Remediation allows teams
and automation with AI and simplified fidelity alerts and detections from to resolve issues quickly by providing
management with Cisco’s unified security Cisco XDR, purpose-built to detect most prescriptive guidance. The new Search
infrastructure,” said Jeetu Patel, Executive common attacks such as ransomware Graph Query feature enables granular
Vice President and General Manager for and lateral movement, into Splunk ES to query and graph visualizations across
Security and Collaboration at Cisco. “Since accelerate investigation and remediation. multi-cloud environments to allow for
then, our security momentum continues to The integration allows organizations to deeper investigation into cloud security
accelerate. With ‘zero to one’ innovation utilize the strength of each solution to posture to reduce exposure.
like Cisco Hypershield and strategic create a more comprehensive defense “The XDR market is broad, one that includes
acquisitions like Splunk and Isovalent, strategy that will improve digital many companies that promise to deliver a
the power of Cisco’s security platform is resilience. more complete view of the security stack
supercharged and unmatched.” • Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence: A beyond the endpoint. In doing so, XDR
Cisco is helping customers defend against critical solution for the SOC of the future, aims to detect cybersecurity threats across
the entire attack chain – from detecting and designed to revolutionize proactive risk multiple domains,” said Will Townsend,
blocking not just known, but also unknown mitigation through continuous asset VP & Principal Analyst, Moor Insights.
vulnerabilities with Cisco Hypershield, to discovery and compliance monitoring. “Observability is key, and with its successful
stopping the increasing barrage of identity This addresses a pressing need for acquisition of Splunk, Cisco is poised to
attacks with Cisco Duo, and reimagining security teams, as they can’t protect what enhance its XDR solution launched one year
the security operations center (SOC) they can’t see. ago, now adding AI, unified threat detection,
with Splunk for security analysts to move • Cisco AI Assistant for Security in investigation, response and transformation
faster and make more informed decisions XDR: Cisco’s unified AI Assistant for capabilities aimed at enhancing security
with contextual insights and automated Security is now available in Cisco XDR operations.”
workflows. – one year after Cisco shared its vision "At Optiv, we provide our clients the
Advancing the Vision of the SOC of the for reimagining the security analyst essential security expertise and solutions
Future experience with AI on-stage at RSAC they need with an integrated approach that
To thrive in the new digital era, organizations 2023. The AI Assistant in XDR empowers spans the entirety of their cybersecurity
need to connect and protect all that they do. security analysts of all skill levels to journey, all with a focus on accelerating

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